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TUF 32 Featherweight Winner Mairon Santos Reflects On His Inspiring Path To Winning The Ultimate Fighter At UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs Borralho
By Thomas Gerbasi, On X @ThomasGerbasi • Aug. 30, 2024
This is a love story.
To some extent, every fighter reaching one of their goals in front of the world has an element of love to it – love of competition, love of the sport, etc., but Mairon Santos winning The Ultimate Fighter last Saturday in Las Vegas ticks different boxes, and it all began in Duque De Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the home Santos loved, but had to leave in order to chase his dreams of becoming a UFC fighter.