​The old adage “life comes at you fast” typically has a negative connotation. But for recent UFC signee RJ Harris, the fast and furious developments in his life have been nothing but good.”Signing with LFA and then getting the call up and then all of my personal life is like all this has happened within like a year,” Harris told MMA Junkie on Monday. “Me and my wife got married October 10th. I signed with LFA on October 1st. We’re about to welcome our first child into the world in August. I signed that UFC contract (recently), so there’s a lot going on and a little time. It’s just a wild ride.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHarris (5-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) makes his debut at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 281 at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City. He battles Alvin Hines (7-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) in a heavyweight prelim bout.It’s a pretty amazing feat considering not too long ago Harris was fighting in toughman-style boxing exhibitions. In 2023, Harris appeared on the then-popular online fight series “Rough N’ Rowdy” owned by Barstool Sports. It brought bar-room brawl vibes into organized boxing, traveling from town to town as over-the-top characters with little-to-no fight experience squaring off in high-offense, low-defense contests.His debut was labeled by the promotion “The Craziest Fight In Rough N’ Rowdy History.””I’ve told some couple people, but it was all like a sh*ts-and-gigs kind of thing,” Harris said. “My cousin signed up for a West Virginia tough man contest and he wanted me to do it with him. I didn’t get accepted into the tough man contest the first time I signed up. I signed up too late. So then I was like, ‘I’ll get into another one.’ I signed up again. I got denied again because I live too far away. The third time I signed up, the very next day I got an acceptance letter. It’s kind of like a one-and-done thing. I was like, ‘I’m going to do it.’ I went down there. I won. I’ll be a two-time returning champ for tough man.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement”… I end up fighting Rough N’ Rowdy. I lost to Jacob Mogavero. They called me, and they was like, ‘Hey, RJ, you wanna take this fight?’ I’m like, ‘I’ll fight like this weekend. F*ck it, let’s do it.’ I take the fight. He ends up beating me. I’m all out of shape. I wasn’t taking camp serious at the time. It’s still in the beginning of everything. Then the next weekend I go, and I make my MMA debut and I win by knockout. That night someone was there, another guy that was in the same weight class was there, and after his fight he came up and tapped me on my shoulder, and he was like, ‘Hey, are we doing this?’ I turned around like, ‘Oh f*ck yeah, we’re doing this.’ Then after that, this is how it’s been since.”Harris, 27, admits it was well into his competitive career before he started taking training seriously and absorbed the instruction necessary to significantly enhance his game. He’s come a long way in a short amount of time and is excited to see what more seasoning will do for him.”I was