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|March 19, 2024
CHRISTIAN LEROY DUNCAN has found his feet in the UFC - but his fancy footwork owes as much to Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson as it does Michael Bisping and Demetrious Johnson.
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The Gloucester middleweight has had only four fights in the company but his free-flowing and unpredictable style already has fans and match-makers sitting up and taking notice.
'CLD' was a promising basketball player as a teen, winning the England Under-18s National League Cup with Filton College, but chose MMA rather than the NBA.
However, his grounding on the court is proving invaluable in the cage, with Duncan saying: "Coming up when I was younger, I played a lot of basketball and I played it at quite a high level.
This story is from the March 19, 2024 edition of Daily Star.
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