Damir Hadzovic and his family fled the Bosnian War when he was a child, but he never let his circumstances define him for the worse.
“It was crazy because I was six-years-old, I remember many things. I remember traveling on the bus, all these countries we went through to get to Denmark,” he told Bloody Elbow ahead of his bout at UFC Stockholm. “We also lived in Macedonia. We took crazy routes to Denmark on the bus. Through Poland, Ukraine and over the seas to Denmark. Maybe it’s what made me tough, I don’t know.