Gutirrez looks to bounce back from loss, plus training and bouts hampered by pandemic. EAST LANSING, Mich. – Mando Gutierrez has been through enough in his life to know losing isn’t something to worry about, especially for someone who calls MMA as his profession. Gutirrez, a bantamweight fighter who was raised in Chicago and now fights out of Lansing, learned that lesson well recently. Credit Mando Gutierrez “Losses are inevitable in this game,” Gutierrez, 24, said. “I’d be lying, though, if I said it was sunshine and rainbows since my last fight.” That last fight was Gutierrez’s first loss of his professional career, submitting to a rear-naked choke from Mo Miller at the Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA) 90 event last September.