Featherweight Hacran Dias is the latest prospect to emerge from the celebrated Nova Uniao camp in Brazil, and like many of the team’s fighters, he’s endured a hard road on the way to the big show.
Now on the cusp of his UFC debut against fellow Brazilian fighter Yuri Alcantara, Dias wants to give his family a better life with success in the octagon.
“Everything I do, I do with my daughter in mind,” Dias told MMAjunkie.com. “I don’t want to stay here on the hill (in a favela) around drug trafficking. I want her to go to college.”