August 2026
Why I Was Ringside at BKB 56
Ray Diaz on training with Adel Altamimi at Humble Warrior Gym, what he lost when he left the Mayweather gym in Las Vegas, and running into King Bach at Bare Knuckle Boxing 56 in Los Angeles.
News from Ray
First person stories from the career and life of Ray Diaz. New entries added as they happen.
August 2026
Watching Curmel Moton Since He Was Sixteen
Ray Diaz on training at Floyd Mayweather's TMT gym in Las Vegas, filming Curmel Moton's early workouts, bringing his newborn son into that room, and facilitating the Kosar Wellness sponsorship.
August 2026
Water Finds Water
From testing pool chemistry in Key West at sixteen, to a Kangen machine in 2013, to molecular hydrogen, to a talent agency named Aqua, to building ALKA pH10. Ray Diaz on the thread that runs through his whole life.
August 2026
All Three of Us
Ray Diaz, his partner Hannah Lee Worthy, and their son Balencio Diaz are all signed to Aqua Talent Agency in Los Angeles. After years of closed doors, an agency said yes to the whole family.
August 2026
The Coach in Me
Eleven years of football under nineties coaching taught Ray Diaz one vocabulary for caring about someone. It is direct, demanding, and easy to misread if you have never been in a locker room.
August 2026
The Wave Came Without Me
Ray Diaz spent years arguing that a trained actor could build a career in digital media. Then the pandemic proved it to the entire world, during the exact stretch he was unable to work.
August 2026
Twenty-Five Pools a Day
A man in Key West named Ricky Jackson gave Ray Diaz a job when everyone else had written him off. Cleaning pools taught him a word he never let go of, and it explains everything he has built since.
August 2026
One Lane for Latinos
Ray Diaz on losing his first language in foster care, an industry with one narrow Hispanic casting lane, and the U.S. Army commercial where he finally got to be exactly what he is.
August 2026
I Became the Future of Fitness
Eleven years of football, a marine construction crew, eighteen national commercials, and a physical transformation that took eight years. How Ray Diaz became one of the first influencers to build a fitness program, and why nobody knows the story.
August 2026
The Long Way In
Ray Diaz on being the son of Cuban refugees, the years he spent in foster care, growing up in Key West with no industry in sight, and the long road from marine construction to a career on camera.
August 2026
The Night I Had Dinner With Michael Jordan
A high school gym, a crowd chanting our names, and an invitation from the greatest of all time. Ray Diaz tells the story of an unplanned dinner with Michael Jordan.
August 2026
December 15, 2016
The day Andy Frisella and 1st Phorm gave Ray Diaz his first six figure sponsorship, and why he remembers the date instead of the number.
August 2026
The Man Who Never Took a Percentage
Ray Diaz on Dan Fleyshman: the brand deals, the Bitcoin mining, and how a mentor turned into family.