Roger Huerta was the first MMA fighter to ever grace the cover of Sports Illustrated. But if you enter Huerta's home in Thailand today, that 2007 issue will be nowhere to be found.
It has been eight years since it came out and only one other mixed martial artist has been on the cover since: Ronda Rousey earlier this year. Even so, Huerta doesn't think it's a big deal at all.
"It wasn't monumental for me, I suppose," he told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. "If I would have won a UFC world title, f*ck that would have been definitely monumental.