{"id":36960,"date":"2025-09-21T05:22:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sosa-conquers-ufc-contract-after-tragic-family-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:22:43","slug":"sosa-conquers-ufc-contract-after-tragic-family-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/sosa-conquers-ufc-contract-after-tragic-family-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sosa Conquers UFC Contract After Tragic Family Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hecher Sosa Wins UFC Contract After Heartbreaking Family Tragedy<\/h2>\n\nSpanish bantamweight Hecher Sosa secured a contract with the UFC on &#8220;Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series&#8221; on Tuesday, just 72 hours after the death of his father.\n\nSosa (14-1) defeated Mackson Lee (9-1) by unanimous decision in the main event of &#8220;Contender Series&#8221; in Las Vegas. The 30-year-old fighter decided to go ahead with the fight despite receiving the news of his father&#8217;s death on Sunday morning, who suffered from cancer. Sosa lost his sister to the same disease a year ago.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I can&#8217;t speak with my father today, but he is the reason why I am here. He is the reason why I am the man I am, and I will continue to represent him.<\/p><cite>Hecher Sosa<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe native of Arrecife, Spain, revealed that he was informed of his father&#8217;s death while in the process of cutting weight for the 135-pound fight.\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOog5eXE8wT\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hecher Sosa&#8217;s post on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0917%2Fr1546809_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nSosa dominated the three-round fight against Lee, which led White to immediately sign him to the UFC.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I respect your determination, your resilience, everything you&#8217;ve been through in your life. I&#8217;m going to give you the opportunity to fulfill the promises you made to your family.<\/p><cite>Dana White<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSosa hasn&#8217;t lost since May 2022. Nine of his 14 professional victories have been by knockout or submission.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hecher Sosa Wins UFC Contract After Heartbreaking Family Tragedy Spanish bantamweight Hecher Sosa secured a contract with the UFC on &#8220;Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series&#8221; on Tuesday, just 72 hours after the death of his father. Sosa (14-1) defeated Mackson Lee (9-1) by unanimous decision in the main event of &#8220;Contender Series&#8221; in Las Vegas. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7914,8851,478,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-36960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mma","7":"tag-contender-series","8":"tag-hecher-sosa","9":"tag-mma","10":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}