BIOGRAPHY Roger Huerta nicknamed "El Matador", born May 20, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, is a Mexican American mixed martial artist.
Huerta competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Huerta is one of the sport's rising stars, though he's known as much for his incredible life story. His young life was shattered at 7 when his father, Rogelio, began an extra-marital affair. In an attempt to flee the heartbreak, his mother Lydia Huerta snatched her son from his home in Texas, without his father's permission, and fled to El Salvador, where her parents lived. But his mother was not stable enough to raise a child. After a short while, she fled the country, leaving him with her parents in the midst of a civil war in El Salvador.
His father eventually took him back, but began to abuse drugs, so after suffering more abuse from his stepmother, Huerta wound up living on the streets, coaxing favors out of sympathetic friends. His life changed forever when he met wrestling coach Bryan Ashford and English teacher Jo Ramirez. Ashford helped him to become a star wrestler and he began to think of going to college on a wrestling scholarship. And when Huerta was a senior at Crockett High School in Austin, Texas, he said his life changed forever when he met wrestling coach Bryan Ashford and English teacher Jo Ramirez. Ashford helped him to become a star wrestler and he began to think of going to college on a wrestling scholarship.
When he asked Ramirez for help writing letters to colleges to drum up interest in him, he told her the story of his childhood. She never had a hint of what he had been through. She was so impressed that she adopted him during his freshman year at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. That life only promises to get better. He's got that dog inside of him that's going to fight and scratch and keep coming. He now holds an impressive professional MMA record of 19 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw (as of October 2007). View GALLERY:
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