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Portland, Maine (October 21, 2022)
Former Lewiston (Maine) High School football coach Bill County once described the running style of his star pupil, Jared Turcotte, as “violent.” Turcotte parlayed that bull-in-a-china-closet approach into the Fitzpatrick Trophy, symbolic of his home state’s premier player on the schoolboy gridiron, and All-American status at the University of Maine.
When the retired bell-cow back reintroduced himself to the competitive arena as a mixed martial artist with New England Fights this past July, it took all of 35 seconds for Turcotte to make it clear he had no interest in reinventing himself as an athlete. It was the same, time-honored approach in a different environment.
Turcotte used that tiny window to take his fight with Seth Godfrey into the proverbial phone booth, pummel his fellow amateur light heavyweight into a prone position and lock in a rear naked choke for an electrifying tap-out victory.
