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Recorded September 4, 2026, ahead of Synergy FC 31.

Tyler Janes works weekend nights in the emergency room at St. Louis University Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center, seven at night to seven in the morning. On Monday afternoons he climbs out of bed to go get punched in the face at Wolves Den. On Saturday, September 12, he walks into the Abu Shrine in Springfield, Missouri to defend the Synergy FC amateur bantamweight title against unbeaten Jason Eubanks.

He has wrestled since he was seven in Hannibal, a state runner-up in 2013 and state champion in 2014, then Maryville before nursing school pulled him out. He is 4-0 with, by his count, a takedown in every round of every fight. His coach called the title fight in the cage the morning of: take him down, get the hooks in, and that will be the end of it. It was.

The conversation goes further than the belt. What fighting gives a nurse who gets called to restrain a violent patient almost every shift, and why he keeps the two worlds apart. The friend who signed him up for his first jiu-jitsu class and became his ride or die. The gym culture he brings up before anything else. And the answer he gave when asked what he wants to be remembered for, which had nothing to do with winning: that he took care of his training partners, and everyone walked out safe.

This was going to be his last amateur fight before turning pro. Then they offered him Eubanks.

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