Your nickname is ‘The Hurricane’, but shouldn’t it be Conor ‘The you can break my jaw in half and snap my arm in a few places, but don’t worry buddy, I’m still going to try my best to CRUSH YOU!’ Heun?
HEUN: I think that's a little long winded for a nick name. I think "Hurricane" is just fine. If a hurricane's coming you just get the fuck outta dodge. If I'm coming to fight you, you gotta know that unless you knock me out or put me to sleep I'm still coming. I'm working on fighting more intelligently and working on picking my shots a little more but the bottom line is that underneath everything is a very angry young man who is appalled at the audacity of anyone willing to disrespect me by signing a contract to fight me. Once you sign that contract, you've agreed that you’re gonna try to kill me and I'm gonna try to kill you. If I'm still breathing I'm gonna be trying to end you.
HEUN: I wish. Instead I wasted $150,000 on wrestling lessons at Ithaca College in upstate NY. I went in as Journalism major but got fed up with that pretty quickly after reading an article in the school paper about a girl who missed a kick on a goal in a soccer match. The paper basically blamed the whole team not making the playoffs on one girl’s missed kick. It was bullshit and gave me a bad taste in my mouth about the whole profession. I studied Organizational Communication Learning and Design, which is basically common sense and Power Point, for another year before finally switching and eventually graduating with an English degree.
Do you worry about how your family and friends are feeling when watching you fight bloody wars like your last 5 fights?
HEUN: Worry about family and friends? You must be mistaking me for someone who has normal human emotions. I fight because I'm a fighter. I was raised as a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter. Anyone who is close to me knows that fighting is in my nature and it's a way that I express myself. Fighting is an outlet for me to show my heart and show my skill and medium for me to work through my own issues with self mastery, self discipline and self discovery. Anyone I care about knows that I have a lot of growth and evolution ahead of me and knows that the fight is a means to that end, a way to know myself. I know it might be hard out there for people who love me to watch me fight but I'm always fighting. The "fight" is just the one time where the internal battles that I fight within myself everyday become an external, physical struggle rather than the internal struggle for self actualization.
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