What a week it’s been for Shamar Bailey.

After USA East welterweight Charlie Brenneman was forced to pull out of his Aug. 16 M-1 Challenge matchup vs. Team Benelux’s Raymond Jarman due to injury, Bailey received the call from M-1 officials that he had been selected to go to Amsterdam and join John Doyle and Charles Grigsby as members of USA East.

It was the call that the well-renowned Midwest fight prospect had been seeking for quite some time.

And just days after Shamar signed with M-1, he finds himself the feature subject of award-winning journalist Kyle Nagle’s “Fight Path” series on MMAjunkie.com.

A firefighter by day, Bailey’s quest to become a national MMA superstar is chronicled in detail in the latest edition of “Fight Path.”

To read the profile in its entirety, click here.

And remember to check out Shamar as he goes head-to-head with Raymond Jarman on Aug. 16 at Studio 22 in Hilversum, Holland.