Early ‘wake-up call’ led Combate Americas’ Erick Gonzalez into mixed martial arts

As far as life-changing low points go, Erick Gonzalez was lucky. He reached rock bottom when he was still young enough to make real change.
The fast-rising Combate Americas standout was by his own admission a punk kid who was more interested in getting into street fights and finding trouble in Los Angeles’ South Bay suburbs than he was in making something of himself, and it all came to a head one night when he was pulled over and arrested in his hometown of Torrance for driving under the