Ultimate fighter, sperm donor, community advisor, cinema major, grappler, MTV star.

This may sound like a strange combination of things, but this is the life of Josh Hayes.

“People always think that the things I do are really strange or crazy, but if you know me you would realize that it’s me just being me,” said the 21-year-old Joshua Tree, Calif., native.

At SF State, Hayes also found the sport of grappling, which he says is wrestling but focuses more on pinning the opponent into submission, rather than punching or kicking.

Hayes began to train in August 2003 at a downtown San Francisco gym called “Fairtex,” which is a world renowned gym known for it’s expertise in kick-boxing and other martial arts.

“There, I was able to hone my fighting skills and to develop it into an art, rather than just plain fighting,” said Hayes, of his fighting progression.

It was at Fairtex where Hayes learned about cage fighting, or ultimate fighting as it is known by most people.

“I had been training for a while with my trainer, who had done some cage fighting matches, and he said to me that it would be cool if I tried a match,” said Hayes.

Until then Hayes had never really fought except for his many street bouts on the pavement of Joshua Tree.

“I’m a street fighter, but I had always watched ultimate fighting and I loved it, so I was definitely down” said Hayes.

Once Hayes was persuaded, his trainer organized a fight at “The Palace Indian Gaming Casino” in Lemoore, Calif., on January 15, 2004. Hayes trained, for three and a half months, more intensely for this match than he ever had in his entire life.

It was also around that time when Hayes’ television stardom came about. “My roommate told me MTV was looking to do a documentary about odd ways college kids make money.” It was not long after when Hayes had a camera man at his side for the next three and a half months, filming his every move. He got paid $1500 for the documentary and got his first cage fight filmed by MTV.

Finally, the day had arrived for Hayes to show off his talents and to earn a couple extra bucks. “When I got to the Palace, the man running the show said I would get $250 for fighting and $500 if I won. Either way, I figured I was going to make some money,” said Hayes.

Before the match, Hayes’ trainer tried to find out who Hayes was going to fight, for many times shady promoters pair up first time fighters with veterans just for the simple spectacle of watching a bloody beating.

“It turns out,” Hayes said, “that the promoter was going to do just that to me, but luckily my trainer found out and got it changed.”

Instead, Hayes got matched up with a striker -- a combination of kick boxer and boxer whose main objective is to strike their opponents until they can take no more. “From the looks of the other guy, I was kind of surprised they paired him with someone twice his size,” said Josh Lopez, 22, who is roommates with Hayes.

Entering the ring, which is a blue mat floor with an octagon fence, Hayes for the first time felt butterflies in his stomach. “I just wanted to get it over with, kind of like a final in college,” he said of his first match.

As soon as the bell rang Hayes came out with a combination of a sloppy kick and punch.

“I didn’t know what I was doing at first, but soon I got myself together at it was over,” said Hayes.

The fight was meant to last up to fifteen minutes. It was over in two minutes, with Hayes the victor. “The guy seemed tough, but Josh still ended up kicking the crap out of him,” said Lopez. Hayes thinks he broke the guy’s nose, but was too busy celebrating his victory and $500 paycheck to make sure.

Although ultimate fighting provides an outlet and some cash, it is not something that can be done on a weekly basis. With his back to the wall he needed ways to make money in order to live on decent means.

“My mom wanted to go back to college to advance her credentials and I felt bad having her pay for college, so I told her not to worry, that I’ll find something.”

Hayes did find something, something that many college student do for free, donate sperm.

Hayes gets paid $50 for every deed that’s done and gets a hefty Playboy magazine collection to boot. He also feels good knowing that he can provide an infertile couple with the chance to have a child, something that they would not have been able to accomplish with his help.

“I don’t think of it as a bad thing, although it will be weird if someone shows up at my door twenty years later saying that I’m their father.

When Hayes isn’t busy blooding opponent’s noses or spreading his genes around, he is a Community Advisor at Centennial Village.

In fact, his mother is the reason why Hayes ended up getting a job as a Community Advisor at Centennial Village.

At a Southern California SF State orientation Hayes’ mother informed him of the Career Center and how there was an opportunity to get a good job. “All I heard was that there was free rent, free internet, and the opportunity to meet cool people and pay, so I was in from the beginning,” said the SF State senior.

Before coming to SF State, Hayes was a pretty typical small town rambunctious teenager. Hayes credits his gung-ho personality to his mother, Patricia, and to his friends, who always seemed to be getting into trouble.

“I managed to be some what good in relation to getting into trouble, but it was my friends who always seemed to be mixed up in something,” said Hayes.

Through these friends, Hayes was able to become a somewhat rebel and develop his fighting skills that would help him in his future endeavors.

“I wouldn’t say that my friends and I were a gang or anything like that, but instead we were a crew who kind of had each other’s back no matter what.”

He credits the small town atmosphere for letting himself make wild friends and get into fights, “Living in a small town there is not much to do, so often all you do is drive around and look for something,” said Hayes.

This boredom of being in a small town also led to him and his friends to experiment with tattoos, which by looking at Hayes is obvious.

Tattooed on his toes is the word, “Peckerwood” with each toe having one letter’s of the word on it. “This was something I did when I was bored when I was sixteen, my friend had this tattoo gun, and we wanted to learn how to use it,” said Hayes. This soon turned into a hobby for Hayes and his friends and has led him to end up with 10 different tattoos, with the tenth being put on unknowingly.

On the eve of his going away to SF State, Hayes’ friends threw him a going away party, in which Hayes got drunk and passed out. As a joke, and because he was going to San Francisco, his friends tattooed “666” on his lower right leg, all while he was asleep. “I wake up and I have this thing on my leg, I’m pretty shocked about it, but knowing my friends it’s something I should have expected, for falling asleep,” said Hayes.

Despite these wild stories, Hayes managed to end up going to college, much to the credit of his mom he said. “Patty, (his mother), is the reason why I’m here in college, she never said that I had to go to college, but she always motivated me to do my best in everything,” said Hayes, who always refers to his mother as Patty.

This has been a whirlwind year for Hayes, who has begun training others in Centennial Village residents in grappling and martial arts for free. “I am currently training my roommate to fight, he is getting good but I still got the one up on him,” said Hayes.

Hayes hopes to fight again soon, but said that college is his main focus right now, but looking at Hayes’ personality it’s hard to say that he won’t be into some new adventure soon.