SLAM DUNC
Daily Star|March 19, 2024
CHRISTIAN LEROY DUNCAN has found his feet in the UFC - but his fancy footwork owes as much to Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson as it does Michael Bisping and Demetrious Johnson.
SLAM DUNC

The Gloucester middleweight has had only four fights in the company but his free-flowing and unpredictable style already has fans and match-makers sitting up and taking notice.

'CLD' was a promising basketball player as a teen, winning the England Under-18s National League Cup with Filton College, but chose MMA rather than the NBA.

However, his grounding on the court is proving invaluable in the cage, with Duncan saying: "Coming up when I was younger, I played a lot of basketball and I played it at quite a high level.

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