“Yesterday, we were in the casino and a group of guys shouted, ‘Wow, that’s the African guy that got the big knockout in the UFC last night!’
“That kind of thing never gets old for me,” Carl Prince tells me from a hotel room in Las Vegas, the scene of his fighter Lerone Murphy’s biggest test to date Saturday against Josh Emmett in the main event of UFC Vegas 105 at the UFC APEX.
The knockout artist that elicited such a reaction from the group of gamblers is Adeba Gautier, a Cameroonian who found his home at Prince’s Manchester Top Team, a gym which is rapidly emerging as a new U.