LAS VEGAS – Makwan Amirkhani views UFC Fight Night 189 as a new beginning. A member of the UFC roster since 2015, Amirkhani (16-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) thinks he’s finally made the changes necessary to turn a corner in his professional career. Eliminating the people and things from his preparation that were holding him back, Amirkhani deemed his fight against Kamuela Kirk (11-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC( on Saturday his “first professional fight.” “I posted a picture on my social media, and I wrote that (this will be) the first fight of my professional career,” Amirkhani told MMA Junkie at a pre-fight media day. “This time, I actually feel like a professional fighter. All these fights before, I had a lot of people hanging around – too many distractions. I wasn’t paying that much respect to my work and to my job that I had
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