Aaron Pico ‘starving to show’ what he can do in the UFC

Before he was even a teenager, Aaron Pico would sit with his father in the backyard of their Whittier home and regale him with his dreams.
“I’d just tell him that I want to be in the UFC one day and a UFC champion. I want to be boxing. Like, I can do it, you know?” Pico remembered in a phone interview Tuesday night. “And my dad would be like, ‘Of course, son, you can do it. You just keep working hard.”
But first came combat sports reality, with its set of peak