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Roger Huerta has never been known to be a fighter who craved the spotlight. If you’ve ever talked to him, you would quickly realize that he is that rare, shy athlete, who generally feels uncomfortable talking about himself.
That’s the way he was when he became the first MMA fighter to land on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and certainly the way he has been since he became a TMZ star last month.
In early August, a video surfaced of Huerta knocking out another man on the street after the man knocked out a young woman outside a bar in Austin, TX. When TMZ released a video of the street fight, Huerta instantly became the talk of the MMA world once again, but also the talk of the gossip world.
No one heard from Huerta again until he showed up on a TMZ live stream to discuss the incident.