At first glance, Richard J. Byrne, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank Securities, doesn’t look much like a warrior, if NY Times’ Dealbook is to be believed.
“He isn’t the prototypical person you’d see and think, ‘This guy’s going to beat me up,’ ” said Erik Owings, a professional mixed martial arts fighter who has trained Mr. Byrne since 2008. But given the right circumstances, “if Bruce Lee rose from the dead, Rich could choke him out.”
Wall Street has always been a metaphorical boxing ring. But Mr. Byrne, 50, is perhaps the finance world’s biggest real-life booster of mixed martial arts, the combat sport that combines elements of wrestling, karate, Brazilian jujitsu and Muay Thai boxing.
Before work on a recent Monday morning, Mr. Byrne and Mr. Owings were sitting on a two-inch mat in Mushin Mixed Martial Arts, the gym on Fifth Avenue where they work out four or five days a week…
Find out more at http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/off-the-clock-deutsche-banks-byrne-puts-up-a-fight/?ref=business
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