Local champion Sadibou Sy realized his fighting dreams, and wants more

Sadibou Sy spent six weeks bulking up late last year during a prolonged trip away from his current residence in Las Vegas to his native Stockholm. When he returned to his home gym, the renowned Xtreme Couture on West Sunset Road, toward the start of the new year, Sy’s training partners hardly recognized him. Several teammates asked the previously lanky 6-foot-3 fighter about his weight. Why was someone who had recently been a champion in the Professional Fighter League’s welterweight division suddenly looking like a heavyweight? “I heard Francis (Ngannou)...