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Inside Zion Clark's MMA debut and the battle over who gets to fight

ZION CLARK LEANS FORWARD on his couch and extends his hands, palms down, and then he flips them so his palms are up. Then he flips them back-and-forth a few more times, like a poker dealer leaving the table. To him, sitting here in his Beverly Hills apartment, they're just his hands. But if you look real close, you see the grizzled areas, the dings and calloused skin of a man whose hands are his hands, his feet, his heart, everything.

These hands are a god-damn superpower.

Clark was born without legs due to a rare birth disorder that affects fetal development in about 1 in 60,000 live births every year.