Abdul Razak Alhassan only knows one way to win: by knockout. The fighter from Fortis MMA has spent the last eight years of his life fighting the best unranked fighters the UFC has had to offer.

“That’s how I break the ice with people,” he said. It was his father, the late Abdul Razak Naina Maricar, who started the business in 1970. Back then, a bowl of mutton soup cost between RM5 ...