Andre Soukhamthath has absorbed racist comments his whole life, but it’s not the words that bother him as much as the violent attacks against Asians and Asian-Americans. The first American-Lao fighter in UFC history, Soukhamthath (14-8) now competes for XFC and headlines XFC 44 on Friday against Jose Quinonez in a bantamweight bout. Soukhamthath is one of the most accomplished Asian-American mixed martial artists competing today, and he hopes to use his platform to speak out against the rise in instances of violence against Asians since the COVID-19 pandemic began last year. “Everyone now is just seeing the prejudice and racism that people who look like me experience,” Soukhamthath recently told MMA Junkie. “Now that the coronavirus happened, people are looking at Asians in a totally different way
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