Filipinos are no strangers to organized sporting fights and as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) now ranks among the world’s fastest growing sports, it is also getting bigger and brighter in the local scene. Despite the blood and heart pounding action, who would’ve known that the sport can actually be a vehicle in spreading social good?

From a factory worker to being a professional MMA fighter, twenty-two-year-old Daryl Mayormita of Midsayap, Cotabato shared that it has always been his dream as a child to become a boxer. But it was an unexpected surprise to him to become an MMA fighter.

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