BOSTON – For Massachusetts native Randy Costa , Friday at TD Garden is going to be something special, and he thinks he has the perfect dance partner to deliver a “Fight of the Night”-worthy performance. Costa (4-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) takes on the appropriately named Boston Salmon at UFC on ESPN 6 in a clash that the 25-year-old says represents a dream come true when he shares the fight card with his mentor, and the man he calls “The GOAT,” Joe Lauzon. “Having my first amateur fight back in 2014, I never thought I’d one, get to the UFC; two, fight at the Garden; three, fight on the same card as the ‘GOAT,’” Costa said after an open workout session at Peter Welch’s boxing gym in Boston. “Now I get all three of those in one night. It’s kind of surreal to me.
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