Long before Robert Whittaker climbed the ranks to capture the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight title in 2017; before Alexander Volkanovski power punched his way into contention at 145 pounds; before George Sotiropoulos pieced together an eight-fight winning streak at lightweight and almost snatched a title shot opposite Frankie Edgar; and before Auckland-born Mark Hunt turned a losing record into the unlikeliest of heavyweight title campaigns, the Australasian region was represented by one man: Elvis Sinosic.
The “King of Rock n’ Rumble” was what they called him, and although his day job was in information technology and he was born and bred in Canberra -- a city that is often featured on short lists of the world’s most boring cities -- Sinosic was hungry.