In comparing UFC lightweight Kevin Lee's past to his present, a success story forms.
To the casual observer, it's the type of tale with some finality. A city-born minority kid rose above the menacing streets of Detroit, propelled himself to Las Vegas with his fists and shins, signed on the dotted line with the UFC, won a few fights and got married, all while transplanting his immediate family to Sin City so they could watch narrative unfold.
Roll credits.
To Lee, however, we're not even breaking for intermission just yet.
"The journey is only complete when everybody makes it," Lee told MMA Fighting.