Margarita is a lethal mixed martial artist on top of the world!   I am writing in an effort to document my crazy life.  I would love to write more and make my life and successes into a book and movie, as has been suggested by my friends so we'll see.  This is a summary of my wonderful life so hope you enjoy it. I have lived two distinctly and different lives up to this point, one as a gang banger up until age 18 or so and the other as a human being!  This blurb is written on 2/1/08   I am a 30 year-old former gang member and have an 8 year-old son. I am first generation American with both of my parents being born in Mexico and coming here when I was three.  I was pregnant three times before I graduated High School in Los Angeles with the first pregnancy when I was 14 with all of them ending in abortion or miscarriage. As a gang member I sold drugs, beat-up a lot of people in the street, smoked cigarettes, did drugs, drank and carried a knife with me everyday of my life since I was 12.  I had gang fights with the women of other gangs and saw things that I wish I never have.I witnessed some horrible things I can never forget and still have nightmares over. I was involved in orgies, gang raped twice by members of my own gang and street fought my way to become one of girlfriends of one of the gang leaders.  Many times I had to fistfight other women for that privilege and the analogy I could make now it was like cockfights or dog fights.  Two women would face off in street clothes with nothing besides their own fists and whatever they could pick up off the gutter and go at it until one or the other was unconscious or unable to continue or the cops would show up which they rarely did. The loser was gang raped and beaten further by the men. It was terrible and gruesome.  These fights were horrific and brutal and far beyond anything I could explain.  It was an ugly and dangerous life that was all about survival. I beat some women way past the point that I wanted to, past the point that I needed to simply win, but had to continue their beating B/c that is what the men wanted.  One time I lost, I was 15 or so and was beaten 1/2 to death by a woman of 25 and spent 12 days in a hospital being questioned by the police.  I never would tell them the truth or gave her name as that would have been a death sentence for sure.  I was arrested  8x before I was 16 including 5 for assault and 3 for dealing drugs. My high school was a pig sty with the furthest thing going on there was learning.  We beat-up and intimidated the few female teachers that were dumb enough to come to that school and the boys did the same of the male teachers.  I personally beat one teacher so bad, a young male teacher that he pissed in his pants.  Back then that was another "badge" for me but looking back I feel horrified that I did that to another human being.  Of the many tattoos I have I have one for that beat down.  On my last arrest a wonderful police officer named Carlos took me under his wing and with my mother's permission had me moved to a half way house and cleaned me up both physically and emotionally. Carlos became my father for all intent and purposes. He enrolled me in a boxing class since he knew of my natural fighting talent and pent up aggressions. The first day they put these gloves on me, a mouthpiece and headgear and put me in the ring with the best fighter in the club.  This white woman was 5 inches bigger and I am sure weighed more than 20 lbs than I did.  She was jabbing me around the ring and talking smack as she did.  I had no idea how to fight like that.  At the end of the first round I was bleeding from my nose and feeling her body punches but I told Carlos I was going to fuck her up now.  When the bell rang I put both my hands over my head and dared her to hit me as much as she wants, this threw Ms. white girl with her formal training off her game and as she started landing her jabs I saw an opening and clocked her with an overhand right that knocked her shit out cold! She flew her ass to the ground unconscious, totally unconscious and they had to call in an ambulance to take her out of there.  I stood there saying ambulance? Are you crazy?  Throw some water on her and give her a beer and let's fight some more.  Well, this just highlighted my natural talent and my piernas de madera ( hands of stone as they called me then) and I still fight there as of this day years later.  The woman I beat I fought four more times and of course the result was always the same as my training took hold I was able to prolong her beatings with jabs and body attacks that showed I am a trained fighter now VS a wild animal from the street.  My last fight with her where I broke one of her ribs made her quit (finally) the gym for good. She did her best to make sure that everyone hated me but I couldn't care less.  Anyway,  I stand just 5'4 and weigh 126 lbs but I am fearless and have beaten MUCH bigger women and a lot of the white boys who hit on me. I have natural muscles and enjoyed that outlet. My measurements are 34C-26-34 and enjoyed using my body as a pawn and a weapon.  What saved my life was enrolling in a Community College with Carlos' help and sponsorship.  There I joined the gymnastic and girls wrestling team.  The gymnastic team allowed me into a whole new world.  I became friends with all of these white women and enjoyed sane conversation although I often felt out of place. I got my body into AMAZING shape and developed a strength that has saved my ass and helped develop me into the mixed martial artist I am today. The muscles I developed shocked me as they popped out everywhere and not only did all of these white boys flock around me the power it gave me physically was outrageous.  I did NOT lose one wrestling match during those two years and progressed to a 4 year college and now am proud to say I am a licensed social worker here in San Diego and live with my B/f and son.  Between the boxing class, gymnastics and wrestling team plus no drugs or cigarettes ( I still drink alcohol socially)  I never thought I could be so strong, feel so good or look this way. Muscles was nothing I ever wanted or needed as I never had a problem attracting boys.But now have plenty of muscles that make a statement.   There is NO doubt that as my body changed I became a magnet and loved the fact that this poor Mexican girl was being chased by all of these white boys. For a long time I had my pick and experimented with many.  Basically, they were lousy boring lovers who were more interested in my body, my background and history than me per se.  It did not make a difference as I was just interested in screwing some white boys for the experience. If nothing else they treated me like a lady and I was certainly not used to that.   Carlos- a wonderful man who saved my life. PERIOD!!! After 6 months of community college we were in his car and I thought, based on my sick life and the way I was brought up, that I would give him oral sex as a thank you for helping me. I will add that I was ALWAYS a street fighter and that the gymnastic training had made me much stronger than I ever was.  Back to the story. So I was in his car and I was verbally thanking him and started to play with his cock and started to go down on him which is what I used to do all the time on my former life when he grabbed me by the hair and yanked me up and started to say stop when based on reflex only, I swear, I started punching him for grabbing my hair.  I do not know how many times I hit him but I suddenly noticed he was unconscious. I used both fists and in a very confined space I beat the shit out of him, simple as that. I remember very little of actually hitting him.  Understand that Mexican men are very macho and absorbing such a beating from a woman is really very bad for their psyche. In private, however,  he realized my natural and trained ability when it comes to fighting and to be 100% honest the gymnastic team did more to build up my strength not to mention change my body and add on more muscle than I ever thought possible all of which he turned me on to.  I never wanted to hurt him physically or spiritually but I also know and am fully aware of who I am deep inside. Not happy about it but realize it.   I was raised a gang banger and may always be one.  I react to things with violence and try to keep that under wraps as much as possible in my new and improved life.  But when faced with immediate danger like I thought I was with him my reaction is to strike back.  I know I lost it with him and I was unaware I was hitting him so much and so hard but it happened and is a fact of life so I have to face it, WE had to face it.  He knew he could not compete with me physically at that point.  In all my street fights I knocked out only 3 girls.  Here I was, a gang banger with an attitude and a temper, and I knocked out cold the only man who ever tried to save or help me. In fact the only human being who really ever helped me with no other motive than that.  His head was slumped over and he was bleeding out of his mouth totally unconscious.  I was scared and thankfully he finally opened his eyes and asked what the fuck happened. At that point I was straddling his body and my fist was still clinched to strike again. I was speechless at first and he asked if we had an accident or something.  I admitted that I knocked him out and lets just say he freaked out. I sat there feeling stronger than he, feeling like I could do it again to this seasoned police officer and it was a good feeling for a while.  Yet at the same I felt badly yet sometimes was happy that I had this strength in my fists.  He yelled at me an both languages but I saw he was embarrassed.  He slapped me several times and I took the first few and they were hard and then I cocked my fist back and warned him if he hit me again I would fucking kill him and he knew I was serious and he sat back in silence a VERY long silence. This was a very tough scene for both of us.  He knew I just beat him like a bitch, I knew I could do it again and almost wanted to on some levels, yet I also knew how terrible he was going to feel about the beating and I knew he was the ONLY person I ever truly trusted and I just blew that. To make a long story short our relationship changed a lot but he hung in there with me even though it was clear between the boxing class, where I was hurting  a lot of people, the gymnastics and personal growth life was FINALLY getting good and his job was over in that he saved a life. Once after a particular match that I won I came out of the ring and he was toweling me off and said in Spanish " margarita you are now lethal in more ways than you know" and at the time I did not understand what he meant.   Once I enrolled in a real 4 year college we agreed to part ways as he took me as far as possible.  He will live in my heart forever!!!! Forever.   I am now a full-time licensed social worker with a great job and professional mixed martial artist here in beautiful San Diego.  My life is my b/f, son and my fighting.  I am very good at all of them.  My professional record is 14-2 with 8 knockouts. My two losses were decisions but everyone but the one sided judges knew I won with neither girl willing to fight me again.   I am usually much stronger than my opponents, and am known for my non-stop aggression.  I am proud of my body and my accomplishments to date. Yes, I have fought men in these "private" fights so I can earn some extra money and am 11-4 in those over the past 3 years and have knocked out 5 of them. Particularly proud of three of those knockouts.  I have had 2 embarrassing street fights since I have been here I am sad to say. One on the soccer field where I had to beatup a loud mouth father who made some stupid comments about Mexican women of which I was the only one there as usual.  I had my boy wait in the car and took this man  into the woods and beat the shit out of him until he was crying like the immature loud mouth spoiled boy he was and the second was on a tennis court where I was forced to shutup a woman who was very jealous that her husband was staring until his eyes hurt. Also, I wasn't even there to play tennis since I don;t play that game!  She was a "kickboxer" and "warned" me not to "prance around like a tramp" with my body but believe me she might have taken some kickboxing classes but she was no fighter since a few jabs and a hook to her stomach left her in tears gasping for air and whispering STOP PLEASE stop as I stood over her.  Not good times as I want to leave that life BEHIND me. If I never use my abilities and training in the street again that'll be fine with me.  My b/f is a fighter to and a white boy.  Who would ever thought in a million years that I would have a house ( my own house with a yard and a garage and furniture and it's clean and I HAVE MY OWN MAID!!!) , a son, a white boyfriend, a college degree so many white girlfriends who are envious of MY body and my life.  I love life and love fighting as it keeps me calm. Adios Margarita If you want you can write back to meximarg@aol.com