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Jorge Lopez has been telling his new fans how he started out in UFC and MMA in the first place. He’s a hero.
Lopez started off by training at an academy with (then an up and coming star) Wanderlei Silva. It was an amazing opportunity for anyone – though he didn’t realise how good an opportunity it was at the time!
“Back then, I just thought ‘this is just a cool experience, Wanderlei’s awesome.’ But I didn’t want to be one of those kids who was super star struck or emotional about it. I wanted to get there and train and test my limits to see how good I really was. At that age you want to be everything. I wanted to be a football player, I wanted to be a professional fighter, I wanted to be a police officer.”
“So I really wanted to see how it felt training with these guys and I saw it and it was great because it kinda opened my mind and made me realize that it really wasn’t far-fetched. It was actually something that could be accomplished. But I look back on it and say whoa, that’s not common that you see a kid at 14 going to Brazil to train with what was at the time the best team in the world.”
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