For a long time, Moss thought it would be in the sport of Australian Football.

He first started playing with the Nowra Blues, before spending time with the South Coast/ACT Cats, Wollongong Lions, Queanbeyan Tigers and eventually the Sydney Swans reserves.

After 10 years of kicking the Sherrin around, he was knocking on the door of the AFL.

But as much as he loved footy, the Shoalhaven High School alumnus felt like he was missing something.

A void that was quickly filled when he tried his hand at mixed martial arts for the first time in 2012.

"I always enjoyed watching the UFC, but never saw myself having a dream of fighting on the biggest stage in MMA," Moss said.

"But after my first training session at Bomaderry's Southern Martial Arts, I was hooked.

"I found my new passion and could see myself being on the big stage someday."

Nearly one year to the day later, as a 21-year-old, Moss had his first amateur fight, a local promotion cage conquest.

"That fight was a great start to my career, with a knockout win after just 24 seconds of round number one," the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu purple belt said.

Since then, Moss has won another five fights, to move to a perfect 6-0 record - which includes three by KO/TKO and three wins by unanimous decision.

Those wins came against UFC hopeful Joshua Culibao (who now has 8-0 professional career, after Moss handed him his only loss of his MMA career), Jack James (a top middleweight contender), Ali Cevik, Chris McKeig and Adam Ellenor.

Although the now 28-year-old is proud of all those wins, the one that stands out the most is his most recent victory against number one middleweight fighter Alex Hong (7-3).

"My most memorable win would be my last fight on XFC 43 against number one ranked amateur fighter in Australia and New Zealand," he said.

"This was I highly anticipated fight, between two of the best in the middleweight division.

"I won by KO in the 2.02 second of round number one and sealed my second national title, on the longest running promotion in Australian MMA history.

"As good as it was to win my first national belt (Australian Coastal Combat Middleweight title) to show I had what it takes to compete at the highest level, the latest win was a real statement to show why I'm deservedly number one in the rankings."

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On top of his time spent in the octagon, Moss also works in the Royal Australian Armoured Corp, after previously running his own carpentry business, which has definitely helped his sporting career.

"Sometimes in life, something just feels right and you want to chase more in life adventure, new experiences, new places, new mates a whole new life," he said.

"The army kept crossing my mind, so on February 23, 2015, I enlisted into the Australian army and never looked back."

During his four years with the army, which currently sees him posted to 2nd 14th light horse Regiment (Queensland Mount Infantry) at Enoggera Barracks Brisbane, Moss, a trooper, has won four more titles - including the 7th combat brigade combative champions (2018 and 2019) and Australian Army combative champion (2018 and 2019).

"Martial arts is being used by the army as a force resilience and capability enhancement program," Moss, who is employed as a military combative martial arts expert at the 7th Combat Brigade Army Combative Centre under the Combative Sergeant Major Aaron Johnston, said.

"It offers fantastic results across the broad spectrum of Human Performance Optimisation (HPO) including character development, combat conditioning, emotional intelligence and knowledge enhancement.

"My key area of expertise is within combat mindset development which sits firmly in the emotional intelligence realm.

"MMA competition offers the ability to understand combat stress responses and develop training strategies for improving emotional control and mindfulness.

"This has been successful with fantastic results."

In these seven short years, Moss also has silver and bronze at the Australian golden boots freestyle wrestling to his name.

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But he knows, none would have been possible without his current coach Damien Brown (former UFC fighter and army veteran) and training regime - which includes three sessions a day conditioning, grappling and striking.

"Damien is the one person who's made the biggest impact on my career - he changed my whole training regime," he said.

"I had to trust him in relation to our camps leading up to a fight and weight cuts but the results speak for themselves - two title fights, two wins."

"This is all within six months of me working with him, as he just opened his own gym in Brendale (north of Brisbane).

"He fixed holes in my game because as a fighter, as you need to continue to grow and an experienced fighter like Damien can provide this knowledge to improve."

As such, Moss feels after 'achieving everything he can as an amateur', it's time to turn professional.

"I'm now focused on making my pro debut," Moss, who has gone toe-to-toe with former UFC champion and personal idol of his Robert Whittaker, said.

"Then I'll work my way up the ranks again to gain that number one position and hopefully hold a title or two.

"That'll put me in the best position to get a call up to the UFC.

"They're big plans but anyone is capable of making their dreams come true, you just have to put the work in."