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    2018 MMA Fighter of the Year: Justin Wren

    Sep 19, 2018 3 minutes
    BY MARK JACOBS
    Once he got to the top of Kilimanjaro, he pulled out a new Bellator contract and signed it there on the highest peak in Africa.

    Wren hasn’t competed in MMA since a spectacular victory over Roman Pizzolato in 2017 because of a tear in his shoulder that required surgery. But that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to fight to save the lives of thousands of Mbuti Pygmies in the Congo and to bring clean drinking water to impoverished people around the world.

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