“I walked in and they were impressed with my kicks and the way I would just pick up stuff and they were like, ‘where did you train?’” Hall says, in a interview with Fightland, Vice's new MMA section. “I said, ‘I never trained before’. I was embarrassed to say that I played Tekken all day, copied the moves and that’s how I learned. I would play that video game so much. I’d go into practice mode and have the characters… the computer spar me back and forth like regular training. I’d just keep playing until I see something… visually it was almost as if my body just adjusted to it so when it came time to spar moves that I would see would come back like that!"

“Everytime I saw a cool move on Tekken, I would just practice it till I got good at it and when I did it in training people said, ‘what the hell is that!’”