UFC: New Zealand's Kai Kara-France spoke on Fight Week ahead of his bout with Alexandre Pantoja in UFC 317.
With Kai Kara-France, that proudest of New Zealand Warriors fans, and now club wrasslin’ coach, walking about Las Vegas this week in a fight shirt emblazoned with not only his image, but initials -- and printed large in a wonderfully unmistakable rugby league tribue.
UFC 317 Topuria vs Oliveira | SUN 29 JUN 12PM AEST | One of the biggest fight cards of the year has arrived. Spain’s Ilia Topuria looks to capture the vacant lightweight title against former champion, Charles Oliveira |Understanding, yes, there are countless people who’ve helped bring Kara-France, 32, and fighting professionally for 15 years, into Sunday’s blockbuster UFC 317 title fight against reigning flyweight king Alexandre Pantoja.
Asked how much of the Warriors he brings with him to fight Pantoja, who is himself on a tear stretching seven bouts, four years and three defences, KKF talks of lessons in professionalism, in unity, and all those little extras -- think dieting, recovery, even body maintenance -- that make a man elite.
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