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Calvin Kattar juggles fighter, promoter roles heading into UFC 223

There’s a reason, by and large, that fighters fight and promoters promote.

They’re both demanding full-time jobs, for one. They require entirely different sets of skills, for another.

Sure, if you become a successful-enough promoter, like UFC president Dana White, you can turn yourself as a fighter character in a video game and give yourself suspiciously high skills levels. But that’s about as close as you’re going to get to seeing the promoter actually set foot in the cage.

The Boston-area native is doing a fine job wearing two hats these days. He runs the Manchester, N.