What do fighters do? The simple answer: they fight.
Though the deeper you dig, it’s much more than that and everything that leads up to the moment they’ve been working their whole lives for, is not so simple.
Take away the literal sense and fighters are fighting before they get to the actual fight itself. Many of times, some of the most real struggles beyond the fight aren’t documented and never heard about. This lifelong “sport” of hand to hand combat is something that is played physically but the battle comes almost always more within the mind.
Fighters are built. They have to be shaped, molded and led down the path they wind up walking. The stories to how each has come to be are all endless and unique in their very own ways. For UFC strawweight, Randa Markos, it took surviving and escaping the Iran-Iraq war to get her to Canada where her MMA journey would begin.
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