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A hard worker, Turpin did road work in the early morning, worked from 10am —5pm at a restaurant cleaning seafood, then trained for two hours only to return to the restaurant to work until midnight. Any free time he had he spent with his baby daughter Anje, to whom he dedicated everything.

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Just a few months before the show, Najai was robbed at gunpoint and lost nine hundred dollars. The next morning he was informed he earned a chance to compete on The Contender. He believed that the news was a sign from God. On the show, he was placed on the East Coast team and pitted himself against Sergio Moraa man seven inches taller than he was, in the first round.

He committed suicide on February 14,while sitting in a car with his girlfriend and 2-year-old daughter.

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The motive for his suicide was not entirely clear. However, the fact that he had not been allowed to fight between the time of his elimination from The Contender and the show's finale so as not to spoil the endingalong with the low self-esteem that may have resulted from his defeat on the show may have contributed to his suicide. Another contributing factor is considered to be the ongoing custody battle for his daughter.