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Family of Fighters: UFC's Montana and Mark De La Rosa Are Raising an MMA Prodigy

For the De La Rosas, fighting is the family business.

From the time she was old enough to crawl, Zaylyn De La Rosa was moving around wrestling and jiu-jitsu mats. Her mom, Montana, was a high school wrestler when Zaylyn came along. The challenges of raising a young daughter at the age of 15 are daunting enough, let alone doing so while maintaining an athletic career with as grueling a schedule as amateur wrestling.

Wrestlers are a different breed, not so much born as molded, like iron by fire. The most driven wrestlers wake up before dawn and run in any kind of weather.