The combat sports narrative of a rising prospect’s rough-and-tumble beginnings on one mean street or another is a commonly told story, but seldom is it as simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming in its early stages as it was in the case of Anderson Hutchinson.
Hutchinson recorded his first memories within the walls of an orphanage in Parana, Brazil. Abandoned as an infant, he spent his first seven and a half years on earth with a tenuous sense of belonging. That was until one day, when a man named William Hutchinson visited and adopted him, taking him back to his home in the United States.