Outside of his current deal with Bellator MMA, Myles Jury, who faces Brandon Girtz at Bellator 239, is open to giving people a behind-the-scenes look at and advice the industry through his YouTube channel.

Myles Jury will have the opportunity to score his first win in Bellator MMA, and his first win in the sport since 2017, when he faces Brandon Girtz in the Bellator 239 co-main event on Feb. 21.

Jury hasn’t been with the promotion for long, having signed as a free agent in July before dropping his promotional debut to Benson Henderson at September’s Bellator 227. But in the short time he’s been with Bellator, he’s already felt welcomed.

“Bellator offered me a great opportunity to test myself against great fighters,” Jury told FanSided MMA. “They have a great pool of athletes. Financially, they were making a great offer, too, so it just made sense for me.

“Bellator’s a great organization. They’re one of the top organizations, great people behind the scenes, and, you know, they’re offering me an opportunity to go out there and live my dream. I get to do what I was born to do, and at the end of the day get paid for it, too. So I highly respect and appreciate Bellator.”

Jury, who started his career unbeaten on the regional circuit before breaking through into the UFC via season 15 of The Ultimate Fighter, was once considered one of the UFC’s higher-touted up-and-comers. Jury won his first six Octagon bouts, which included wins over Diego Sanchez, Michael Johnson and Takanori Gomi, before suffering back-to-back losses to Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Charles Oliveira. Jury rebounded in 2017 with wins over Mike De La Torre and Rick Glenn but dropped his last two bouts in the UFC to Chad Mendes and Andre Fili.

Jury said his manager mostly dealt with promotion negotiations in his free agency period, but upon receiving the “great” offer from Bellator, he quickly jumped ship.

“Bellator knows that I’m a professional,” Jury said. “I’m highly skilled and highly marketable. And I have a history and they experience that [I can] come over and they know that I’m basically a fighter that they want on their roster.

“Signing with them, they know what’s up. They know I’m going to come in, I’m going to put it on the line, like I always do. I’m going to come in and [be] well prepared, and that’s what they’re looking for. They’re looking for guys that come in and, and get after it, and can be marketable and eventually win that title.”

And outside the cage, Jury has been marketing himself in a different sense — through a YouTube channel. Jury, a fan of the social media video platform, has videos on his account from his UFC days but says that was an old manager doing fight vlogs and training footage, none of which he had to personally do with.

Jury implied when he re-started his YouTube venture a couple of months ago, he wanted to be different. And that’s when he decided to use his knowledge and expertise in MMA and real estate to use and present a behind-the-scenes look at the industries he knows and give advice.

“I just was like ‘You know what? I’m going to get on there. I’m going to connect with people all across the world. And I’m going to get my thoughts on different topics,'” Jury said. “Mixed Martial Arts and real estate I consider myself very experienced in. I said, ‘Man, let’s be genuine and let’s talk about something that I know’ and that’s how it kind of started off.”

Jury does produce videos that may be typically seen from someone in the MMA world, such as predictions, breakdowns and fighter advice. But Jury uses his comprehension of the worlds he knows to teach his audience about how to make money and be successful.

He also discusses the money he made during his time in the UFC, and most recently regrets he had fighting with the UFC — topics most fighters may typically shy away from.

“I understand money very well, and I understand real estate, MMA, UFC,” Jury sad. I was with [UFC] for seven years. So I said ‘You know what? Why not just be transparent and give the viewers just a behind-the-scenes, you know, pulling back the curtain, 100 percent genuine and real look into the business side of Mixed Martial Arts. And from there, they can make their own opinions and have an open discussion and, just basically be transparent about everything.

“I look at my channel as educational and inspirational. So whether I can help people educate them on finance investing, or I can inspire and help educate people about fighting and getting into the bigger shows, whichever those are, education and inspiration are definitely two things I’m looking to give on the channel.”

Jury, on a three-fight losing streak, now looks to get back into the win column this week against Girtz. Girtz, a veteran of Bellator, has won two of his last three after going on a three-fight skid of his own. Girtz most recently competed at Bellator 219 in March, defeating Saad Award by decision in an entertaining contest.

Jury says he’s kept to the same fight camp rhythm he usually goes through and feels confident he’ll be able to stop the losing ways and pick up his first Bellator win.

“Feeling great, feeling sharp, just going in my zone; coming in well-prepared, man,” Jury said. “I look at every fight that I have [as] the most important; whichever fight’s in front of me that’s most important. Each fight I prepare and this one’s no different. This one, I put in eight weeks of a solid training camp; I’m coming in well prepared and motivated. I’m ready to go out there have a great performance be sharp, be in my zone, and have a great night.”

Bellator 239 takes place on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, live from the WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, OK. Follow along with FanSided MMA all your live results and highlights.