For Randy “Rudeboy” Brown , the Octagon isn’t just a place to fight, it’s where he rewrites his family’s story. The UFC welterweight, now boasting a 20-6 record, grew up carrying a name once shadowed by crime and controversy. His father’s arrest under the RICO Act when Brown was just two years old changed everything. Three life sentences. A broken family. And yet, out of that darkness, a fighter was born.

But what exactly happened all those years ago? And how has the fighter kept a bond with a father he’s known mostly through prison walls? Ahead of his clash at UFC Vegas 111 against Gabriel Bonfim, let’s unpack the story.

RICO Act Charges and Triple Life Sentence Details

In an interview with Ariel Helwani on his talk show, ‘The MMA Hour’, ‘Rudeboy’ revealed that his father was in the

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