He Fought for $1,000,000. Then He Cried in His Car.

Josh "Cuddly Bear" Copeland has fought in the UFC, the PFL, and Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. He's entered a million-dollar tournament as the eighth seed and knocked out the man who beat his best friend. He's also the guy who once opened a gym door, saw who was inside, turned around, got back in his car, and cried.Days after his last fight, Josh sits down with Michael James to talk about the part nobody puts on a poster. Growing up in the Bible Belt believing that serving God meant life would be easy. Watching his marriage fall apart a year into a youth pastor job. Walking away from the church with bitterness in his heart. Years of getting dominated in a gym by men he couldn't touch. And this spring, a torn bicep, a heart in atrial flutter, and an ER doctor telling him he was close to heart failure.What he thought about in that hospital bed is why this conversation exists: "I don't want to go away and just be known as Josh the Fighter."A conversation about resilience that doesn't look heroic while it's happening, about failure and success running a parallel journey, and about a man building something called Invictus, Latin for unconquered, out of the exact places he fell short.