Por Samuel Navas

Para FOX Deportes

Tuve la oportunidad de entrevistar a uno de los peleadores que actuarán en el evento UFC del viernes 8 de junio, evento que se transmitirá por el canal Fox Deportes.

Al principio me tomó por sorpresa la asignación, honestamente, porque de momento mi participación en los temas de UFC no ha sido como crítico ni como analista. He realizado crónicas y reportes pero no había participado en la sección aportando comentarios.

Me gusta la UFC, no soy buen experto para las Mixed Martial Arts globalmente, no conozco todo el universo de la disciplina. Me estoy refiriendo al conocimiento de saber cuántas ligas hay a nivel mundial, por regiones o las distintas corporaciones que promueven las MMA’s. Pero en cuanto a UFC he estado analizando las técnicas, los peleadores que actúan por el circuito, los eventos y con un poco de precisión los campeones actuales.

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By Simon Samano/@sjsamano
For FOX Deportes
 
Leonard Garcia just wouldn’t give up his Corn Pops.
 
Garcia, 8 years old at the time, was at the grocery store with his family when his turn came to pick his favorite cereal for him and his siblings. He was thrilled. His older sister, however, wasn’t happy he chose Corn Pops, and she demanded he give them up for her favorite Fruit Loops.
 
But Garcia had to have his Pops. He wasn’t about to back down. He even hugged the box as his sister tried to pry it away. When that didn’t work, she took a different approach. She punched him in the face … hard.
 
“Man, she let me have it,” Garcia said in a phone interview with FOX Deportes. “She gave me one good one, and it was like a perfect shot. As soon as the knuckles stopped landing on my face, the knot started coming out. I’m talking my eye was swelled up like two inches from my face.”
 

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