India, June 20 -- Mixed martial arts can be unforgiving. Discipline, belief and hunger are some words thrown around in the sport. But for Mansher Khera, those reminders are inked into his skin. Literally.

Etched across his ripped torso is the face of Bhagat Singh, the Indian revolutionary who went on a 116-day hunger strike and eventually died for his beliefs when he was only 23.

Khera got the tattoo over a decade ago, long before he entered the octagon. "That was my first tattoo," he told HT, "Honestly, for me, it was his mindset towards the cause. He was willing to die for it. That kind of commitment. that's what inspires me every single day."

"I feel like every morning when I wake up and I look at that tattoo, it just keeps me disci...