Biography
Before Lyle started his mixed martial arts career he was an accomplished wrestler in high school. During his senior year he began using Methamphetamine. He subsequently spent a year in Washington State Penitentiary for drug related crimes. He cites a viewing of The Ultimate Fighter while incarcerated for piquing his interest in mixed martial arts. Beerbohm has said in multiple interviews that his career in mixed martial arts started the day he left prison. He credits MMA with saving his life, saying "MMA literally saved my life. When I got out prison, I wasn't cured. I traded one addiction for the other and MMA became my new meth."
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