Jorge Masvidal operates under the auspices of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and will make his first appearance since November 2017 when he meets Darren Till in the UFC Fight Night 147 headliner on Saturday at the O2 Arena in London.
Ahead of Masvidal’s main-event assignment, here are five things you might not know about him:
1. He had a challenging upbringing.
Masvidal was born to a Cuban father and Peruvian mother in Miami in 1984. The future fighter faced considerable adversity growing up on the western side of the city.