Everyone who knew him best — from close family members to the sheriff’s deputies in northeast Alabama’s Jackson and DeKalb counties — was certain Trevor Peek was destined to spend his days inside a 35-square-foot jail cell.
Instead, after years spent running from the law and the Lord, Peek’s miraculous turnaround has set him on a path toward a promising future inside a 30-by-6 Mixed Martial Arts cage.
“I should be dead already,” said the 28-year-old Peek. “From drinking and drugs, to giving the cops a few chases on those backroads, to rehab and sitting in a jail cell, nothing and nobody could stop me.
“I thought I was either invincible or destined to die before I was 21, and I was going to find out which. I had a lot of anger inside of me, and I was in constant misery emotionally for years. There’s a reason I’m not in the ground or in jail, and it wasn’t until I finally gave it all to God that he showed me my purpose in life.”
The Pisgah, Alabama, native — who also has family in Lookout Valley — found both direction and an outlet for his anger inside the MMA octagon.