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Bellator 229’s Saad Awad on how to light a fire under a 13-year vet

“F*ck, I haven’t thought about that,” Saad Awad starts. “I have no clue. You caught me off guard.”

The question posed to the veteran was a title or theme he’d give to his training camp for Goiti Yamauchi at Bellator 229. It briefly stopped Awad in his tracks.

How do you sum up a life’s work that never really ends, and yet is crammed into two or three-month bursts of activity?

Redemption would be an easy label – two straight losses scarred his recent resume. Rescue would be another – three straight losses might endanger his career.