Brent Primus (Credit: PFL)
Brent Primus: Winning 2024 PFL Season all about bettering my family
Brent Primus has climbed the highest mountain top of mixed martial arts, and he still wants more. The former Bellator lightweight champion has fought the very best while part of the Bellator promotion. Once his former promotion merged with the Professional Fighters League to begin 2024, Primus joined the PFL’s 2024 Lightweight division Season, giving him a chance to not only add another title to his collection, $1 million grand prize, but to set his family up with an even better future.
Before his most recent win last week against Solomon Renfro at PFL Salt Lake City, Brent Primus revealed to the media that he and his wife had adopted a child, growing their family to having three children. The adoption was one in which Primus and his wife decided to bring in a young family member and create a better life for the child. Giving the most to his family and the children around him, that’s what is driving him to win the 2024 PFL season.
Following his win over Renfro, Primus spoke to the media after the fight which saw him clinch the top seed in the 2024 and discussed what it would mean to his family to add the PFL world title and the $1 million grand prize.
“This is everything. This is literally for my kids. They’ve seen me work so hard, they come to the gym with me three times a day to different gyms and they see me bleeding, suffering, and crying, they see the hard work and that’s what I want for my kids, so much. To see that if you work your heart off and your butt off and you believe in yourself, you can do anything.
I came from a single Mom, we had nothing, we were broke, I had nothing. Now, look at me here, I’m about to win $1 million and for my kids to watch me go through all of this. They know how hard I work.”
Taking from his own experience growing up, Brent Primus knows that the things he’s experienced in his life and will use that to fuel him to pave a better path for his own children.
“One thing that broke my heart is I never had a dad to come see my soccer games, I’d look at the sidelines and see my friends’ dads and I told myself I’d never miss my kids’ football games or soccer games, and I had to miss a bunch for this camp. It broke my heart. But it was a sacrifice for them, and I know in the long run they’ll be happy about all of this, and they’ll see the hard work and what this sacrifice is all about, for sure.
There is no greater motivation than having kids, it’s a love that you can’t even explain until you have kids. Everything I do, I do for my kids.”
That is who Brent Primus is. A world champion defined not by titles or the win-loss record on his resume, but one that is driven by the greater purpose of providing his family with the best future. He’s also a class-act and great representative of mixed martial arts, which was on display following his win in Salt Lake City when he was seen sharing drinks with his opponent and the two agreeing to train together in the future.
It would be wrong to assume that fighters can only be remembered for what they do inside the cage during their career, and Brent Primus is a prime example of a special athlete, a special fighter, and most importantly, a special father.
