Gaston Bolanos is a relatively late bloomer when it comes to MMA. He doesn’t want that to be the case for the youth coming out of his native Peru.
There were opportunities for Bolanos when he was growing up in Lima, though he wasn’t preparing for a future as a Bellator cage fighter. At the age of 10, Bolanos started training in Muay Thai and he brought that experience with him when he moved to California three years later. Fast forward to 2019, Bolanos, now 26 and fighting out of Combat Sports Academy in Dublin, Calif.