The Laws of the Ring
“Whatever Way You Can Among the many things you could do to your opponent in the old, Wild West days of MMA: head-butt, kick a guy in the head when he was down, elbow from any position. Professional fighting was a slightly more refined version of Senator McCain’s “human cockfighting” by the time I arrived in 2003. You couldn’t head-butt or eye-gouge, but the sport still had a ways to go before it became what you see today. I entered an ever-so-slightly modified version of those days: mean, somew...hat vicious, borderline sadistic, with just a few more rules than a bar brawl. There was great demand to see these early fights, since there weren’t many places to see them and there was never a scarcity of bloodthirsty, beer-soaked fans willing to pay for the right. The ticket I bought to see my friend Tyrone Glover that night in the crowded, smelly ballroom in Colusa? It cost seventy-five bucks.
Tickets that expensive meant fans wanted to be treated to a show they could say justified the cost.MoreLess
Tickets that expensive meant fans wanted to be treated to a show they could say justified the cost.MoreLess
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