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Surprise helps UFC fighter Kyler Phillips rise charts

Fighter trains locally for worldwide fame

Mixed martial artist Kyler Phillips is a spiritual man, and he’s also smart.

Sure, he may pulverize other people for a living, but when he heard his likeness would be in the next edition of an MMA video game, he said there’s no doubt about what character he’ll be.

“I don’t want to be other people. I want to be myself,” he said, assuredly.

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