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Senator John McCain once decried mixed martial arts as "human cockfighting," while the New York Times despaired that the sport offered a "pay-per-view prism" onto the decline of western civilization. But the violent spectacle of cage fighting no longer feels nearly as scandalous as it did when the sport debuted in 1993.

A “propulsive and wildly engrossing” (Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store) account of how the UFC turned mixed martial arts into a multibillion-dollar business and global pop culture phenomenon. Decried as “human cockfighting” by Senator John McCain and dismissed by the New York...

Bill Dobich and Nick Gerasimakis met in 1975 as Teacher and student, and have become lifelong friends, colleagues and now co-authors attempting to document the spirit and true greatness of a very complicated and often misunderstood man, Goeroe Willy Wetzel.