BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » elder ramos https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:58:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A Colombian cartel, a brutal murder, and the fighter who won’t let himself forget https://www.badmma.com/a-colombian-cartel-a-brutal-murder-and-the-fighter-who-wont-let-himself-forget.html https://www.badmma.com/a-colombian-cartel-a-brutal-murder-and-the-fighter-who-wont-let-himself-forget.html#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:23:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/a-colombian-cartel-a-brutal-murder-and-the-fighter-who-wont-let-himself-forget.html Filed under: Featured , News Elder Ramos In the last hour before the fight starts, Elder Ramos travels back in time. He does this before every fight, just as he’ll do it before his fight Saturday against fellow welterweight Derrick Kennington at a Glory Fights event in Annandale, Va. He’s done it since he was in middle school, wrestling strange kids in a strange land as people shouted instructions in a language he didn’t understand. Maybe he can’t not do it, whether it helps him or not. In that time-traveling hour Ramos is a boy again, back in Colombia. He’s playing soccer out in the yard when he hears the sound of a truck winding its way down the hill toward the home he shares with his mother, his three sisters, and his three older brothers

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