Dustin Jacoby wasn’t your typical quarterback, nor has he become your typical MMA fighter.
On the gridiron, he sought out contact with defenders. Now a little older (and with significantly less padding), he looks to dish out a new kind of punishment inside the octagon not even a year into his professional career.
Jacoby faces fellow middleweight newcomer Clifford Sparks on the Facebook-streamed preliminary card of UFC 137, which takes place tonight in Las Vegas.