Posted by Jonathan Snowden on 6th June 2008
It seems that father issues drive many of today’s most popular fighters. Chuck Liddell didn’t have a father; his left him to be raised by his mom and grandfather. Matt Hughes and his brother Mark hated their dad so much that they once gave him a beating for having the temerity to tell Mark he had no business riding a motorcycle with no training or license. Tito Ortiz had it worst of all.
In his new book This is Gonna Hurt, Ortiz details a childhood that is startling and more than a little sad.
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Posted by Lee Casebolt on 6th February 2008
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Welcome back to the Total MMA Book Club. Today we take a look at the latest MMA literary offering, a new autobiography by former Light Heavyweight champ Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell, appropriately titled Iceman: My Fighting Life. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Lee Casebolt on 9th January 2008
Matt Hughes is my favorite fighter.
It’s not that I relate to him on any sort of personal level. We’re both hyper-competitive, but I was on the debate team in high school and the most athletic thing I ever did was run my mouth. Meanwhile, Hughes has been wrestling since he was a fetus. Had we gone to school together, he probably would’ve given me a wedgie and stolen my lunch money (and the joke’s on him – I didn’t have any lunch money) if we crossed paths at all. Other than that, we’re both Caucasian males of approximately the same age, residing in adjacent states. Otherwise, we couldn’t be more different.
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