Ascending middleweight talent and Dana White’s Contender Series graduate Mansur Abdul-Malik is a walking contradiction.
Outside of the Octagon, he is a soft-spoken, thoughtful young man with a desire to change the perception of mixed martial artists and who they are by carrying himself with grace, leading with softness, and navigating the early parts of fight week in comfortable house slippers, a casual gym set, and round-framed spectacles. But once the canvas is under his feet…
“Inside of the cage, I’m a contradiction to what I am outside of it,” admitted the Xtreme Couture representative, who is slated to face Antonio Trocoli on Saturday evening at T-Mobile Arena, early in the UFC 323 preliminary card slate.