Super story here, of one Francis Ngannou, who I never heard of until today.
In the MMA / UFC (fighting/boxing) world, he’s a world champion, but given I do not follow the sport, his story was a revelation in incredible perseverance to get to the top.
Francis was born in Cameroon. He was digging sand mines as a kid for $1.8 a day. ‘Abject poverty’ would barely begin to describe him.
His only dream? To become a professional boxer and that too in America. While working at the sand mines, he’d be daydreaming about the USA and his boxing success.
So much so that everyone around him called him “sf”, for San Francisco. Even till today, he signs his name as “sf”!
Continued tomorrow!