{"id":38345,"date":"2025-09-23T02:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sosa-signs-with-ufc-after-losing-his-father-example-of-resilience\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T02:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:07:03","slug":"sosa-signs-with-ufc-after-losing-his-father-example-of-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/sosa-signs-with-ufc-after-losing-his-father-example-of-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Sosa signs with UFC after losing his father: Example of resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"The Spanish bantamweight fighter, Hecher Sosa, secured a contract with the UFC on &#8220;Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series&#8221; on Tuesday, just three days after the death of his father.\n\nSosa (14-1) defeated Mackson Lee (9-1) by unanimous decision in the main event of the &#8220;Contender Series&#8221; held 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.\n\nSosa also lost his sister to cancer a year ago.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cToday I can&#8217;t speak [with my father], 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,\u201d Sosa declared through an interpreter.<\/p><cite>Hecher Sosa<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nOriginally from Arrecife, Spain, Sosa revealed that he was informed of his father&#8217;s passing while in the process of cutting weight for the fight in the 135-pound category.\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 Instagram post<\/a><\/p>\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=\"\"><figcaption>Hecher Sosa recibi\u00f3 la noticia del fallecimiento de su padre el domingo, mientras se preparaba para la pelea en el Contender Series contra Mackson Lee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nSosa dominated the three-round fight against Lee, which led White to immediately sign him with the UFC.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I respect your determination, your resilience, everything you&#8217;ve been through in your life. I will give you the opportunity to fulfill the promises you made to your family,&#8221; White affirmed.<\/p><cite>Dana White<\/cite>\n\nSosa hasn&#8217;t suffered defeats since May 2022. Nine of his 14 professional victories have been by knockout or submission.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish bantamweight fighter, Hecher Sosa, secured a contract with the UFC on &#8220;Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series&#8221; on Tuesday, just three days after the death of his father. Sosa (14-1) defeated Mackson Lee (9-1) by unanimous decision in the main event of the &#8220;Contender Series&#8221; held in Las Vegas. The 30-year-old fighter decided to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7398,8851,478,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-38345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-dana-white","9":"tag-hecher-sosa","10":"tag-mma","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38345","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=38345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}