UFC Fighter Rob Font Used To Playing Bad Guy In Opponent’s Hometown

Rob Font was fighting in his home state of Massachusetts when he faced Andre Soukhamthath in April 2011, but you wouldn’t have guessed it by the amount of people that showed up to cheer on his Rhode Island-based opponent in their amateur bout at the Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom in Mansfield.

“He had a huge following, and the kid would sell a ridiculous amount of tickets,” Font said of Soukhamthath. “I was the underdog and I wasn’t even supposed to be in this type of fight, and it was nuts. He had these shirts made up, and it was just a sea of red when I walked out. Everybody in there was for him.”

The 23-year-old Font, 1-1 as an amateur at the time, was going to be a pro by the end of the year, but it was situations like this that introduced him to the wild, wild west of prizefighting.

“I had maybe six people there, and there were at least 150 to 200 of his fans,” he laughs. “It was ridiculous.”