Alex Morgan Living a Dream Life

If you can build a life you don’t need a vacation from, you win. And Alex Morgan is winning. For the past year, Morgan, 28, has been running the show as the owner and head coach at the new Tristar Gym Rive-Nord, just a short 30-minute drive from Tristar Gym Montreal. Between his own training and his coaching, Morgan said his life revolves fully around MMA, and he wouldn’t want it any other way.

Morgan has been part of the Tristar Gym family in Montreal for 10 years, nearly his entire MMA career, learning under Firas Zahabi, and training with some of the best fighters in the world. Tristar Montreal is home to some of the best fighters in the world, including recent UFC Hall of Fame inductee Georges St-Pierre, and Morgan said there’s no better place to train in Canada. “This place is so high-level. You can’t even imagine how good the people are there. There’s guys from all over the world traveling to come train at Tristar. These guys are all monsters. They’re fighting in the UFC, One Championship, and all the big leagues.

“You can go into any gym in Canada and it’s not the same as Tristar. It’s a high-level gym, high-level coaches, and high-intensity training. Sometimes the training is harder than the fights. Morgan began his MMA journey at 17 years old, initially starting to train just to stay in shape for football season. But he went on to fall in love with the sport quickly and progressed at a fast pace as well.

And after just nine months of training, Morgan made his amateur debut in successful fashion and never looked back. Prior to his start in martial arts, Morgan played football at a high level, a sport he started playing when he was six years old. He was finding enough success in football in high school and one year of college that playing professionally was an option he was considering at one point.

But after finding his love for MMA and discovering how skilled he was in that sport, he said he had to make a choice on which one to pursue. “It’s so much harder to be drafted in football because there are so many people and it’s hard to get people to see you. “But with MMA, it’s easier to get seen. It’s not easy to get in the UFC or another big league, but it’s easier to get seen. If you put in the work, people will see it and you will be in the spotlight.”