Mirsad Bektic Mirsad Bektic doesn’t remember much about Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was 3 when his family left near the height of the Bosnian War, too young to understand anything except that the fighting had gotten too bad and it was time to go. He also doesn’t remember much about Italy, where Bektic, now 23, first fled with his mother and brothers. But Germany, the country where they settled as refugees for the next five years? The UFC featherweight remembers Germany quite well, maybe because it was there that he first became a fighter, more out of necessity than anything else.
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After fleeing Bosnian War, life as a refugee prepared Mirsad Bektic for UFC career – MMA Junkie