How does an alternative warrior become a knockout star: Abdoul Razac Sankara's Pfl Africa Story
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How does an alternative warrior become a knockout star: Abdoul Razac Sankara’s Pfl Africa Story

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Abdoul Razac Sankara shouldn’t have been here. Listed only as an alternative for the quarterfinals of Africa of professional fighters (PFL), trained, remained ready, but the place in the holder still felt like a distant dream. Then his phone line and the call would change everything.

“When my coach told me I was going to fight in PFL, I didn’t believe it,” he shared with Forbes.com a few days after the fight and was still laughing as if it were a dog. “I said,” No, not now – maybe tomorrow. “PFL was a dream for me.

The distrust was understandable. Sankar, the world of Thai of Thai of Côte d’Avoire with a couple of AML Muay Thai World and National title, made his name in the ring and was not in a cage. MMA was still relatively new to him, debuted in 2023 and has since won two direct fighting and six of his last eight. Now he had a chance to enter one of the rapidly growing promotional actions in sports, in the high plans of the quarterfinals, no less.

There was only one catch: it would not be a struggle for its usual weight.
“They told me it would be in feathers and it was my first in this division,” he says. “It was very, very difficult for me. But I took it because you do it every day. Maybe it’s the first time and for the second time.”

Adaptation

Krochandains significant credentials are well known: he is a decorated warrior Muay Thai, who was collected by bellows and through continents. But MMA is a completely different challenge and his opponent was not a direct attacker.

“I’m an attacker, Muay Thai is my home, but my opponent was Kararateka and Judok, so I trained for it all,” he says. “For me there was no chance to lose this fight, it was my dream, and when the dream come true, and you lose? No, no, no. No.”

This thinking: Determination of the same parts and adaptability formed its camp. Even in a short warning, Sancara doubled on the basis of: improving its angles, drilling mad defense and sharpening of its reaction time. Any mistake that his opponent could have made, Sankara wanted to be ready for aging.

Cage

The combat night was electric. When he left the dressing room and entered the tunnel, he took Sankar atmosphere, the roar of the crowd, the blinding lights, the pulsating energy that comes with the PFL event.

“When I saw the crowd, I saw that they were all with my opponent,” he recalls. “I thought,” They don’t know me. We’ll show them who Sankara is. ”

It was the hostility he felt out of the stalls, only ignorance that was the challenge he accepted. That was his chances of moaning, introducing himself to the audience in the most advantageous way.

“I was excited,” he said. “I like to fight. I wanted to give all the best of myyph to know that I was there to be the winner.”

We use the opening of a second

As soon as the door closes from the cage, the months of the accuracy of Muay Thai and the weeks of targeted MMA preparation closer.

The bike began by testing it with low kicks and body blows, while Sankara was cleverly moving around the outside, landing counters and fighting. When Yemba Pressd forward with a high kick, Sankar remained opportunistic, the openings of exploitation with accuracy.

“I’m an opportunity,” Sankar says. “If you make a mistake, I see it and I use it. My opponent still dropped his hand as I kicked, I foil low, then I went high with the question mark. That was it.”

The strike landed flushed and only two minutes into the first round, Yemba was cold.

“I believed I could win, but not,” he thought. “Knockout in two minutes of the first round? I had no words for that moment.”

ABOUL RAZAC SANKARA from the alternative struggle of the participant to PFL Africa passed with the victory Semi–The finalist in the main fashion, the main jump to his professional MMA Journey, now holds a record of 7-4-0.

Call home

In Chaos, after victory, the celebrations, hand -gray, behind the scenes of Sankara reached on their phone. The first call went to his mother, who couldn’t watch the fighting, but she was constantly praying for his success.

“My mom can’t watch my struggles,” he says. “She cries. But she always believed in me. Although it was hard, she paid for my training, my transport, everything.”

Its support was constant, although it has questioned the practicality and career that combat athletes could offer on the coast of ivory. “She said,” This work doesn’t work in Africa, it’s in Europe. Stay here, you will suffer. “But I was sure.

Training as a way of life

For Sankaro, the fight is not just a career, but has become his full -time commitment that has become part of his identity.

“I give everything to fight,” he says. “I have no other job. I train every day, from Monday to Saturday, twice a day. It’s my job but I don’t see it as a job. I love it.”

This discipline is part of what keeps it dangerous in a cage. He is always in shape, always ready to enter, even as alternative, because work will never stop.

Bigger than one victory

The quarterfinal victory was more than a success. For Sankaro it was a spark for warriors at home.

“If I can do it, they can do it,” he says. “This victory gives my country hop. I see people train Haerer, start taking this job seriously.”

On the days after the fight, his phone was flooded with news from fans and colleagues of athletes on the coast of D’Ovoire. Social media contributions from local warriors have shown renewed energy, heavier training sessions and growing belief that African athletes may have an impact on the main promotion of MMA.

Journey to us

Like victory, Sankara is clear about what will happen next.

“It’s just the beginning,” he says. “Semifinals, then the finals come, big things.”

From alternative to the content of his PFL day he has already resisted expectations. Now, with the move on his side, Sancar has a chance that Lightning can hit twice and that the preparation meets the opportunity not luck, but by design.

“When the opportunity knocks again,” he says, “I will be ready. Always.”

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