A man has spoken out about his two biggest passions in life: bare-knuckle boxing and drag.
Diego Garijo is perhaps one of the best examples that you can never judge a book by its cover, as he has become successfully accomplished in two very contrasting passions.
Sharing his story with Vice, the 41-year-old tattooed behemoth revealed that his professional MMA career first took off back in 2006.
After racking up a 7-0 undefeated streak, Garijo transitioned to the even more brutal sport of bare-knuckle boxing.
Garijo was originally born in Guanajuato, Mexico, before being smuggled into the US as a child. Now, after establishing himself as a ferocious force in the ring, he has earned the nickname "Dos Pistolas", which translates to "Two Guns".
However, away from the ring, Garijo is also a respected face on the San Diego drag scene, where he is known as "Lola Pistolas".
And even though many people will struggle to see the correlation in Garijo's two passions, I'm sure any guy that has ever spent the night fully tucked and death-dropping in eight-inch high heels will tell you that it hurts more than being punched in the face.
That being said, Garijo tells Vice that breaking an acrylic nail is actually a "nightmare", whereas punches to the face don't bother him.
When asked about the similarities in his two passions, Garijo says:
"Martial arts show us the beauty of humans overcoming great resistance. In drag, it’s about overcoming toxic masculinity.
"Trans people of color in particular are among the most oppressed people of all. And they have the highest suicide rates. They should be supported instead of marginalized."
In fact, Garijo also compared the thrill before a fight to being like that before a drag show.
"Before my first drag show, I felt just like I do before a fight," he told Vice, adding: In the early days of MMA, I would sit in the same changing room as my opponent before the fights. We’d sit, staring at each other, wondering: 'Can I beat him?' It was the same at my first drag show competition."
Explaining how he first got into drag, Garijo revealed that he was never exposed to many "traditional masculine stereotypes", and was always comfortable with his feminine side.
Then after taking a class on emotional intelligence, he explained that he was told to do something out of his comfort zone - which is how he discovered drag.
Garijo adds that he became so impulsive after being convinced the world was going to end by a missionary shouting about "the end of times".
No matter what you think of either MMA or drag, over on Garijo's Instagram, he explains that he is "living out all [his] dreams right now" - and that is the most important thing.