Bronx Native Gets Excited, Emotional Discussing UFC 309 Bout With Mickey Gall
Ramiz Brahimaj lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is of Albanian heritage, but speak with him for one moment and it becomes abundantly clear where the 31-year-old welterweight was born and raised.
“Here’s the deal: I’m a New Yorker through-and-through until the day I die, and being from the Bronx, this is… this is what it is for me,” began an excited Brahimaj, his voice flecked with the distinct sound of the borough he grew up in, the thought of Saturday’s clash with Micky Gall at UFC 309 prompting him to pause every couple of words and sentences in order to truly articulate what this means to him.