From the Castle Hill projects in the Bronx to world #1 middleweight. NASKA Middleweight Champion '98 and '99. ISKA champion. Two-time WAKO Team USA winning coach. Jessie Wray didn't just fight — he built.
When COVID shut down contact sports in 2020, Wray didn't wait. He invented the Virtual Fight Tour — streamed fights, no spectators, medically tested athletes. It blew up so big it's still running on the road across the US, Europe, and Mexico.
He also founded the King of New York Martial Arts Championship and Next Level Martial Arts in the Bronx, giving inner-city kids the alternative he once needed himself.
Survived a catastrophic 2003 car crash that doctors thought would end him. Came back. Of course he did.
Read his full story in DAOS Magazine 25th Edition.
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