Dorian Price: An Ultimate Fighter's Journey

Outside the Octagon is a weekly column from UFC.com editorial director Thomas Gerbasi, who has covered the sport since 2000 and has authored the official UFC encyclopedia.

Dorian Price wasn’t in Las Vegas anymore. There wasn’t a mansion with all the food you could eat to live in, a state of the art gym to train in. In his new home in Thailand, Price slept on a floor that held three mattresses for the Baltimore native and three trainers.

“It was behind the kitchen with roosters and lizards crawling in the room,” Price laughs, but it was still his dream coming true in a way, as he now had the opportunity to train and compete in the homeland of the sport he loved, Muay Thai. Dreams don’t always…