Even before Sodiq Yusuff made his splash on Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series last July, he was sending money back to his family in Nigeria. He’d pick up a win in the smaller theaters like Victory Fighting Championships and Brave, and send everything — $1,500, $2,000 whatever modest purse it was — back to Ikorodu, Lagos, on the west coast of Africa, where some of his siblings still remain.
By the time he got the UFC’s eye, his brothers Tope and Ayotunde, and his sister Omotayo, where treating his meager contributions as life-altering events.