ANAHEIM, Calif. – Speaking up is paying off for UFC featherweight Sodiq Yusuff and his family. Yusuff said he’ll become a U.S. citizen – along with his mother and brother – after an emotional plea for immigration help in a past pre-fight interview with MMA Junkie . “The person that helped us watched that interview,” Yusuff told MMA Junkie on Wednesday in advance of his third octagon bout against Gabriel Benitez at UFC 241. Yusuff, 26, reached out to break an impasse on his family’s legal status in the U.S.
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UFC 241′s Sodiq Yusuff expects family to become U.S. citizens after media attention – MMA Junkie