Daniel Rodriguez Believes It's His Turn Daniel Rodriguez Has Been Calling For His Shot At Mike Perry And At UFC Fight Night: Vettori Vs Holland He'll Get It. By Thomas Gerbasi, on Twitter: @TGerbasi • Apr. 7, 2021 As one of the most decorated martial artists of all-time, Kathy Long knows a fighter when she sees one. “He walked in and I could see the hunger in his eyes,” said Long. “I saw it, he wanted it.” What the Los Angeles native wanted was a fresh start in a sport that he knew would take him places his job as a member of the Local 416 ironworkers union couldn’t. He was 25 when he stepped into the TapouT gym in downtown LA, where Long was teaching Muay Thai.