King Green reveals the toughest part of his newfound streaming fame ahead of UFC 332

King Green is finally getting his flowers after years of exciting fights – even if it isn’t necessarily for his octagon abilities.

After making his debut 18 years ago, Green has risen to become something of a gatekeeper atop the UFC lightweight division. The journey there included runs with King of the Cage and Strikeforce as he fought 55 times professionally.

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An exciting striker who is well able to work everywhere, Green has always been someone who hardcore fans enjoy to see fill a card. It was only in recent weeks that he began streaming on Kick and is now legitimately becoming a viral star on the platform and through clips across social media.

Deen The Great has managed to turn himself into an overnight success through trolling on Kick and a friendship with the otherwise washed up former boxing world champion Adrien Broner. Since then, every streamer wants a high-level professional fighter to come on their stream and cause carnage.

Enter King Green, who has always been an enigmatic personality from legally changing his name to claiming he lost hundreds of thousands in jewellery. He sparred with Deen and Broner’s friend Antonio ‘Bang’ Williams in a viral session and now has his own page where he regularly goes viral.

However, part of the streaming culture is literally putting your entire life out there for hours on end with long streams. And speaking with Jose Youngs of MMAFighting on his ‘Anything but Fighting’ show, Green explained that he is struggling with everything in his life being public property.

“It’s really strange,” he admitted. “You know what’s really strange? Going to a party where it’s not a party there’s just lights and cameras everywhere. As soon as somebody has that moment then all the cameras come and everybody is so weird and different. It’s a new age of parties.

“Everybody is trying to clickbait and ragebait, I don’t know none of that I just know how to be real. I don’t know if you’re playing with me, I don’t know if this is a game, I don’t know I just want to be me.”

When Youngs asked if he is finding it hard to go out without relative anonymity, he told of an experience he had last weekend that put things into perspective. “It was the first time I didn’t have this jacka– following me,” he said, gesturing to his cameraman.

“I was out there on the streets, nobody following me, I was by myself, listening to my headphones, no distractions, just me and God. Sure a few people came up to take pictures with me, but it was just me by myself, listening to any music I want and sing or dance with nobody bothering me or calling me names.

“There was nobody, it was just me by myself which was really cool. Now I’ve got this guy [his cameraman] with me everywhere I go.”