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Every person has a story. Some stories, though, are deeper than others and need to be told, like that of mixed martial artist Valeriu Mircea.
Mircea has born in 1993 in Satul Topala, a 2000-person rural village in Moldova, situated in the district of Cimișlia. His family was not wealthy, to put it mildly. His mother, though, did everything she could to give her sons what they needed.
“I grow up in poverty, I didn’t have what other kids of my age had,” Mircea told BJPENN.com. “My mother worked twelve hours per day, working other people’s fields under the sun just to bring up a piece of bread, a bucket of flour, maybe three litres of oil. When we were lucky she could get 200 Lei (about 11 USD today).”
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UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov may have left his recent meeting with a different impression of what transpired than his longtime promoter, UFC President Dana White.
White recently suggested Nurmagomedov was waiting to see the outcomes from a series of high-profile lightweight fights after a much-discussed meeting in Abu Dhabi with the 32-year-old fighter, who remains lightweight champion despite announcing his retirement at UFC 254. But in a recent interview given to Russian news outlet Sport24, Nurmagomedov indicated fighting is not part of his current plans, and he doesn’t see an opponent that motivates a return to the octagon.