- born in cameroon
- alcoholic abusive father
- made to work in sand mines as a child
- tells people he wants to be like mike tyson
- they genuinely think he's insane
- gets to mid 20s and still hasn't even thrown a punch
- leaves cameroon without saying goodbyes
- hitchhikes through nigera, niger, algeria
- gets to morocco
- lives in forest, scavenging for food.
- ate out of trash cans, etc.
- moroccan police catch him multiple times
- they don't imprison, just throw him back to the desert.
- he climbs fences with razor wires & armed guards
- to this day has scars all over his body from them
- makes it to the mediterranean
- has to get in rubber dinghy and sail across to spain
- the first time he does this he didn't have oars.
- tries to paddle with hands
- get caught, dumped back in desert.
- escape desert, camp in forest, scale razor wires, sail across again
- does this process SIX times, gets caught SIX times
- eventually on the 7th he succeeds
- gets into spain, thrown in jail.
- released after a few months.
- makes his way to france.
- lives in homeless shelter but can't handle the "negativity"
- leaves comfort, food, bed, etc. of homeless shelter to sleep in a car park
- eventually gets "lucky" chance to work in a boxing gym
- few years later he's the UFC's heavyweight champ
"Homeless to UFC champ"
is such a disservice based on what he had to go through
just to BECOME homeless.
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