Back to Drawing Board for Roger Huerta After Bellator Upset

By MMAEdition on Dec 31, 1969 with Comments 0

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BOSTON — Roger Huerta stopped listening to the critics a long time ago. Whatever he was doing right never seemed to be enough for them. He doesn’t know exactly what they’ll be saying right now, only that it won’t be good after being upset by little-known Pat Curran on Thursday night in the Bellator lightweight tournament semifinals at the Wang Theatre.

“To be honest I already expect the worst,” Huerta said in an exclusive interview with MMA Fighting shortly after the bout. “When I was up and coming, I’d read the stuff people wrote online and I was like, ‘Man, these people really hate me. I’m not going to get on here anymore.’ So I expect the worst.”

Know this: Huerta’s rebounded from bigger setbacks than this. After all, he came from nothing. Once homeless and alone, he made himself a star through sheer will and hard work. He’s done the impossible in the cage, too. Remember his primal comeback win over Clay Guida in Dec. 2007?