Zion Clark: 5 Things To Know About The Wrestler Born Without Legs Auditioning For ‘AGT’

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Image Credit: NBC Zion is auditioning for America’s Got Talent. Zion was calved with a uncommon commencement defect. Zion is simply a nonrecreational mixed martial artist.

The America’s Got Talent auditions are coming to a adjacent soon, but determination are inactive plentifulness of amazing acts who volition beryllium performing for the judges. Zion Clark volition beryllium auditioning for a spot successful the contention during the July 25 episode. Zion’s audition volition undoubtedly animate viewers astir the world.

Zion Clark during his audition connected ‘AGT.’ (NBC)

So, who is Zion Clark? The 25-year-old has persevered nary substance what and stopped astatine thing to execute his goals. HollywoodLife has rounded up everything you request to cognize astir Zion.

Zion was calved without legs.

Zion was calved with a uncommon commencement defect called Caudal Regression Syndrome. He was calved without legs. Zion stands astatine conscionable implicit 3 feet tall.​

Zion precocious made his nonrecreational mixed martial arts debut.

Zion began wrestling successful precocious schoolhouse and went connected to vie successful wrestling and wheelchair racing events astatine Kent State University. He made his nonrecreational mixed martial arts debut successful December 2022 and won astatine the Gladiator Challenge: Seasons Beatings event. Zion hopes to beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic to marque some the Olympic and Paralympic teams, helium told Men’s Health.

Zion was adopted.

Zion wrote connected his official website that helium was “given up for adoption astatine commencement with nary begetter successful the representation and a parent who was unfit to instrumentality attraction of him.” He spent respective years successful the Ohio foster attraction system. He was yet adopted by his foster parent Kimberly Hawkins erstwhile helium was a elder successful precocious school. 

Zion Clark during the July 25 occurrence of ‘AGT.’ (NBC)

Zion attempted termination erstwhile helium was a kid.

“I tried to perpetrate suicide, implicit and implicit and implicit again arsenic a kid,” Zion said successful an occurrence of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, according to MMA Fighting. “I was 10 years aged [when I archetypal tried to perpetrate suicide]. There was nary different option.” He added, “I wasn’t eating food. I wasn’t getting to instrumentality showers. I was conscionable stuck, and connected apical of that, if I voiced my ain opinion, I got the s*** bushed retired of me. So I was conscionable tired. I would alternatively slumber everlastingly than woody with the crap I was going through.”

Zion wrote a memoir.

Zion released Work with What You Got: A Memoir successful April 2023. He was besides the taxable of the abbreviated documentary movie Zion, which was released connected Netflix successful 2018.

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