Riding shotgun in the afternoon sun as his teammate navigates around Mexico City, King Green is having a nostalgic moment, thinking about the days when a 21-year-old kid with a dream crossed the border for his second professional fight 18 years ago.
“That’s crazy that you remember that,” begins the veteran lightweight, giving me credit that rightfully belongs to those who chronicled those small events in the mid-to-late 2000s, where a foster kid from Fontana, California, ventured to Tijuana and choked out future UFC fighter Henry Briones in 48 seconds to move to 2-0. “This is 20 years in the making, coming full circle and stuff.