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Justin Wren knows what it's like to feel like the world is against you. Like many kids, Justin was bullied as a child. Fueled by the anger he felt toward his tormenters, Justin trained hard and propelled his dream of becoming a UFC fighter into reality. But the pain from his childhood didn't dissipate and Justin fell into a spiral of depression and addiction, leading him on a path toward destruction. After getting kicked out of his training community, his career was in shambles and he had nowhere else to go, so Justin attended a men's retreat, and it was there he found God. Justin joined several international mission trips that opened his eyes and his heart to a world filled with suffering deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There he came across the Mbuti Pygmy tribe, a group of people persecuted by neighboring tribes and forced into slavery. His encounter with the Pygmy tribe left him wondering who was there to help them and in that moment Justin stepped out of the ring and into a fight for the forgotten.

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"Justin's story is an example of what any man or woman can do when they discover and embrace who they are and what they are made for.-- ""Bob Hamp, author of Think Differently-Live Differently"""

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Justin Wren is a Christian motivational speaker, missionary, social activist, and mixed martial artist. In 2009, he was a quarter-finalist on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter during its tenth season, and his professional record stands at 13-2. Justin launched Fight for the Forgotten to raise funds for a program to liberate 1,000 persecuted Mbuti Pygmy slaves and relocate them to self-sustainable land of their own in the eastern Congo region. Loretta Hunt is a 15-year veteran sports, entertainment and human interest writer; a New York Times bestselling co-author; and a regular contributor to SportsIllustrated.com and CNN.com. Loretta has been published by People.com, Sports Illustrated Magazine, LATimes.com, and ESPN.com. Roger Wayne served in the Air Force as a radio and television broadcast journalist in South Korea and won several awards before obtaining a BA degree in communications and journalism. He is an actor living in New York, narrating audiobooks, working on independent film projects, performing off Broadway, and auditioning for major network shows.

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