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Nigerian born martial arts welterweight world champion Usman Kamaru shares about his humble beginning while growing up in Nigeria before seeking greener pastures abroad and relocating to the United States. \"Usman

Usman Kamaru revealed more about his younger years during an interview with Channels Television, where he revealed that he grew in a village in Auchi, Edo State and worked on a farm every day and also sold Akpu{Fufu}.
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The Auchi-born Nigerian fighter revealed that he relocated with his mum to the US at the age of 8, and described his mom as one of his greatest inspiration saying that she was a hustler who sold different things just to fend for him and his two other brothers so as to give them a good life.

Usman Kamaru said;

“We grew up in the village. We farmed. As a small boy, farm boy, I used to hawk Akpu, put hot Akpu on my head. I came from nothing.
“There is just struggle every day, the struggle to, how are we gonna eat next week, next month. What are we gonna do?
“We owned a small store where we sold clothes, we sold shoes, my mum sold bags, anything that we could sell, my mum was able to get and try to sell. My mum was a hustler and that is one of the things I respect so much about her as a woman with three rowdy Naija boys.”

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The fighter also disclosed that his father went to prison while he was still in college, and also talked about the father-daughter bond he enjoys with his five-year-old daughter, Samirah.
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Usman Kamaru added;

“My daughter, Samirah, I love her to death. She’s very intriguing to me because from about 6 months to about three and half years of her life, she went to the gym with me every day. Then she hit about five years and then she started saying, ‘you know I’m not going to do this daddy, right. You know I’m not going do this sport.’
“I think I have to just accept that and honestly I don’t think I want her to this sport anyway. She’s got her thing, she’s doing gymnastics and for self defence. She does Ju-Jitsu because she has to learn how to control the situation if anything happens. I’m okay with those right now.”

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The UFC Champion further revealed he is planning to fully move into commentary and analysis of mixed martial arts after retirement.

He said;

“Talking about the Sport that I’ve spent so much time in, that’s a dream. So now instead of getting punched in the face you are talking about people who are getting punched in the face. And so, it’s a dream for me but I’m slowly getting my feet wet in it and finding my ground because it is something I definitely want to do when I walk away from this sport.”

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