UFC Fighter Themba Gorimbo Reacts To Dwayne Johnson Buying A New House For Him
etcanada.comThemba Gorimbo is feeling incredibly blessed nowadays. The 32-year-old began making headlines as a breakout up-and-coming UFC welterweight fighter after his first win in the promotion over Takashi Sato in May went viral.
The fighter then decided to auction off his fight kit, with the proceeds going to build a bush pump in his village in Zimbabwe and provide clean water for the people there.
When the Zimbabwe native took to Twitter and revealed that he had only $7.49 in his bank account before he traveled to Las Vegas for the fight, he drew the attention of Dwayne Johnson. “This was the money left I had before the fight and now God granted me a good win and it’s going to be a great one going forward,” Gorimbo wrote on Twitter. “If it wasn’t for the free @ufc meals I started to receive after I signed the fight i would probably be singing a different story.
Grateful.” When ESPN MMA’s official Twitter retweeted Gorimbo’s story, the 51-year-old “Fast & Furious” star responded in a quote tweet, writing, “This is f’n crazy to see and brings back many emotions and memories. $7.49 in this fighter’s bank account.
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