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PFL Africa Semifinalist Shido Boris Esperanca: Opponent’s Perfect Record ‘Means Nothing’

PFL Africa Semifinalist Shido Boris Esperanca

Shido Boris Esperanca traces at least part of his success to one seminal moment: his 2018 debut under the Hombres de Honor banner in Zaragoza, Spain, where he blew away Cedric Escudero with punches in little more than half a round. It served as a personal vindication of sorts for the Angola native.

“It was a thorn I needed to pull out,” Esperanca told Sherdog.com. “I had to show I could do it, not to other people but to myself. I was looked down upon by some people.