At first, Razak Al-Hassan didn’t know there was a problem.
“I didn’t feel it,” Al-Hassan said of his dislocated elbow following his UFC debut in December 2008. “When the referee stopped it, I was bewildered. I was thinking, ‘OK, why are you stopping the fight?’”
Now, nearly a year later and after months of rehabilitation, Al-Hassan returns to the cage at UFC 104 to fight Kyle Kingsbury. In our latest “Fight Path” installment, MMAjunkie.com’s Kyle Nagel talks to the longtime tae kwon do practitioner about why he first got into MMA and the handful of reasons he almost gave it up.