O’Connell carries purpose and perspective into the Octagon

Sean O’Connell had to chase his moment of realization all the way across a crowded marketplace into a dusty backstreet in Mazabuka, Zambia. The young girl he ran after had broken out of the Catholic orphanage at least a dozen times the past few weeks – but it would be the tattooed, 220-pound hulk who brought her back, becoming the big brother she and the other outcast girls never had. And while the poor 13-year-old runaway thought at first that O’Connell was going to kidnap her