Hector Castro is aware of the grind. He lived it as combined martial arts went from the infancy stage, to the now thriving, rising, multibillion greenback enterprise. Castro bobbed and weaved by means of New Jersey and the east coast as his journey took him by means of a number of media shops and fighter sponsor/agent as he as soon as managed Zack Makovsky, and the Daukaus brothers, Chris and Kyle. Hector made many connections and buddies alongside the best way, myself included.
All of that arduous work and trying to find what would make Hector Castro joyful has was Empire MMA Columbia. Empire is a promotion based mostly out of Medellin, Columbia the place Castro has roots. They’ll host their thirteenth occasion on September nineteenth as Hector builds his Latin American base with the fighters and the followers.
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Hector and I shared a cellphone dialog final week and he had some actually nice stuff to inform me. He says…
“Now we have simply partnered with the worldwide broadcasting large Telemundo Deportes Ahora. It is a nice alternative for the Latin American fighters to get extra publicity and probabilities to get what each combined martial artist needs and that could be a shot within the UFC. I imagine we have now a few fighters who’re near incomes their means onto The Contender Collection. Over right here, these guys are positively behind within the wrestling base. We recognized that and are consistently working and bringing in coaches and coaching companions. Most of the fighters on our card are from Colombia, however we even have a mess of different international locations who’re being represented. Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, and others. There’s a lot potential in Latin America and now many extra houses throughout the globe could have an opportunity to see a few of them.”
Castro nonetheless lives in NJ and is a really devoted household man. He’s been burning that candle at each ends and placing loads of miles on his monitor forwards and backwards between international locations. Right here’s wishing all people on the Empire MMA Columbia household a ton of excellent luck and hope for a lot of houses to tune in and watch some gifted fighters chasing their desires!
