I had started my Martial Art fighting career in Muay Thai Boxing in Brisbane, Australia at about 2009 and really wanted an awesome fight name, but as normal I couldn’t just settle for something everyone else was using, like The Dragon, The Terminator, etc. I knew I needed an intense fight name that would strike fear into my opponents.
It felt important to me to have something that reflected who I am or what is important to me.
At this time in the working part of my life I was running a security firm in Brisbane CBD and this evening I was driving to some secluded warehouses in the industrial area of south Brisbane to check they were all locked and secure. That evening it had been raining heavily, and so the air outside was heavy with water vapor. As I drove in behind one warehouse, I turned into a dark gravel car park, then, as if fate itself intervened, my gaze landed on a large red door spray-painted with white lettering that read “KARMA”. In an instant, I knew this was the moniker that I had been seeking! The words seemed to come alive with meaning: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction! With newfound confidence erupting inside me, KARMA was born.
The strength of the identity came from the word itself. A great karma implied a story worth telling. I liked the philosophical implications: action and consequence; right and wrong; good and evil. And the description could be used with multiple iterations.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction! KARMA
