Lifelong underdog Stergos Mikkios looking to defy the odds once again at ONE: BEYOND THE HORIZON
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Stergos Mikkios Stergos “The Greek Dynamite” Mikkios is no stranger to adversity as long before he first laced a pair of Muay Thai gloves however, Mikkios was already battling the odds. At the age of six, Mikkios was sent to an orphanage in Greece after his parents split up. At 11 years old, he was forced to move back to his birthplace of the United States and live with his grandparents after the orphanage he was living in closed down. Even before all of that, an accident involving boiling hot soup left Mikkios scalded and scarred. It was those scars that provided mean-spirited children the ammunition that they needed to torment Mikkios growing up. “I was bullied a lot growing up. I had to learn to stand up for myself,” Mikkios shared in an interview with ONE Championship’s official website ( ONEFC.com ). “I was made fun of through my entire school years with those scars.” Mikkios bared that it was that oppression that ultimately taught him how to fend f