TEMECULA, Calif. -- Given his five-year layoff from fighting, Justin Wren can't help but find the silver lining in an underwhelming debut performance at Bellator 141.
Wren scored a unanimous decision victory (30-27, 30-26, 30-26) over heavyweight veteran Josh Burns, who now falls to 0-6 in his stint with the promotion.
Wren spent much of the time away from MMA in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, working to provide clean water for his adopted family, a community of oppressed Pygmies.
An ethnic group indigenous to Africa, Pygmies in the Congo are preyed upon like animals by armed rebels, who kill them, rape their women and eat them.