Adil Benjilany says as a kid in Morocco, he dreamed every night of fighting on the big stages of MMA one day.
“I knew one day I’m gonna leave, one day I’m gonna be doing great things and make my family and my country proud,” Benjilany said Wednesday at a Bellator 221 media event.
He wasn’t wrong about that.
Benjilany meets Chris Lencioni Saturday night at Allstate Arena in Chicago in his third Bellator fight. Benjilany, 28, signed with the promotion in 2018 and has won two in a row.
Benjilany left his native Morocco in 2013 for the United States to train in MMA and try to make a career out of the sport.