Filed under: News , UFC Every fighter has a story about how they began to pursue a career in MMA. For UFC Fight Night 103’s Drakkar Klose , his started in an Arizona bowling alley. Klose (6-0-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who fights Devin Powell (8-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) in a lightweight bout on the FS1-broadcast prelim portion of Sunday’s event prior to the remainder of the card on FS1 at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, wrestled in college, but said he never envisioned himself attempting to make a living in combat sports. That’s until one night when Klose went bowling with a group of friends. It was there that he was approached out of the blue by UFC, Strikeforce and IFL veteran Mike Whitehead, who noticed Klose’s cauliflower ears from his time wrestling and immediately recruited him to join his gym. “I was at a bowling alley and Mike Whitehead was there, and he had just opened up a gym in Tucson,” Klose told MMAjunkie
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