At 33, Brazilian bantamweight Rani Yahya is hardly what you would consider an old fighter. Age, however, can mean different things in the fighting world. In Yahya’s case, it means it’s been 22 years since he first started jiu-jitsu. It means about 15 years competing professionally in MMA – and that’s discounting the other, less official types of scraps he’d had before. So, as he heads into what will be the 22nd fight of his combined WEC and UFC careers, has Yahya ever considered just… Stopping
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