Thursday morning, Kevin Lee sat in an airport with a plastic cup of Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee, awaiting his flight to Detroit.
It was an unfamiliar process, considering how familiar the destination was. Saturday, Lee (19-8) returns to MMA competition for a homecoming fight in Wayne, Mich., at Lights Out Championship 17 on Spectation Sports. It’ll be his first fight near his home city since November 2013.
“It’s only fitting that it ends up back home, back where it all started,” Lee told MMA Junkie on Thursday. “I feel like I’m almost restarting my career.”