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Diego Lopes
Diego Lopes was born on July 8, 1994, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in a working-class family where martial arts became his ticket to a better life. Growing up in the outskirts of Brazil's third-largest city, Lopes discovered his passion for fighting at age 12 when he began training in local Muay Thai gyms to stay off the streets.
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Kazushi Sakuraba was born on July 14, 1969, in Akita Prefecture, Japan. Growing up in the rural northern region of Japan, Sakuraba was drawn to professional wrestling and combat sports from a young age. He trained in catch wrestling and amateur wrestling, developing a grappling foundation that would become the cornerstone of his fighting career. After competing in professional wrestling for the UWF and its successor organizations, Sakuraba transitioned to mixed martial arts in the late 1990s, entering a sport that was experiencing explosive growth in Japan.
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