After 13 years of competing professionally in MMA, the Hawaiian fighter can now say he’s a UFC fighter. Nam signed with the Las Vegas-based promotion in August and he makes his debut against flyweight contender Sergio Pettis at UFC Mexico City on Saturday.
The opportunity to compete in the UFC could have came much sooner and more than once in Nam’s career. But for many different reasons, the lights of the Octagon avoided Nam until now.
“I got the call from my manager waking me up, so I was kind of a little groggy, so when I heard the news, I wasn’t like jumping around ecstatically because I had just woken up,” Nam described to MMA Fighting the moment he got the news he was in the UFC.