How the country boy Warren Thompson survives

Warren Thompson doesn’t know what a supermarket meat counter looks like.

A native of Georgia, Thompson (9-2-1, 3 KO’s) was raised and remains at heart a country boy, more at home in the woods than the city. The meat he ate as a child was hunted and caught locally and that remains his lifestyle today - the meat he feeds his own family with is procured the exact same way.

“Do I buy meat from the store? Negative. Never ever. I hunt in Georgia and South Carolina and I get a lot better meat, it’s a lot more healthy. It doesn’t have all the preservatives and growth hormones and stuff in it,” he says.

The orange vehicle you see behind him is his brother-in-law’s truck, ‘The General Lee’, fashioned and named after the iconic car in the Dukes of Hazzard television show.

“We do our dog-hunting in that truck, we put dogs on the trail of deer or whatever, run ’em out and then we shoot them. There will be like ten of us, we put people all around the woods and then we let the dogs into the woods to start the deer and then we bag them as they come out,” Thompson says.

“It’s all hunting for food, the meat goes straight into the freezer. You have to be licensed and sometimes you have to use tags for your kills. The meat is literally how I eat every day and how I feed my family.”

Thompson is aware that hunting has its critics and that not everybody is a fan of it, though he points out that all of his hunting is for food purposes rather than sport or pleasure.

“Its how I lived and how I grew up. People can say what they like about it but they can take their opinion and shove it up their ass for all I care. This is how we eat,” he laughs.

And to go with all the meat? “Other than meat I eat potatoes and rice I guess… I’m not really a vegetables kind of guy!”

Warren Thompson faces Randy ’Boom Boom’ Blake (34-4, 15 KO’s) at GLORY 18: RETURN TO GLORY on Friday, November 7 in Oklahoma, USA. The event airs live across the US on SPIKE TV at 9pm ET.