MMA Brawl

Mixed Martial Arts is not a writer’ sport. There are few books out there on the market, if you put aside the instructional books.

Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, Matt Hughes and Randy Couture published their bibliography but that’s not a very big production, even including the very good book: Fighter and some other press releases.

Forrest Griffin turned famous when he participated in the first-season of Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter reality show. At the time of the show, he wanted to stop MMA fighting and join the Athens Police Department.

Dana White convinced him to participate to the show and required him to change his mind. He had a 9-2 MMA record back then, fighting in minor show like the RSF, Battle at the Brewery (!!), WEFC 1: Bring It On, KOTC, IFS and alike. He started out his career by a loss to Dan Severn at RSF 5: New Blood Conflict on October 27, 2001.

He finally made it to the finale and got the victory against Stephan Bonnar in the “most important fight in UFC history” as stated by Dana White himself. The fight that took the Ultimate Fighting Championship into the mainstream viewer. For winning TUF 1, he was given a professional contract to fight with the UFC as a professional fighter.

He is the first and most well known fighter in the professional league coming from TUF reality show. He achieved to be the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion at UFC 86: Jackson vs. Griffin on July 5, 2008.

Subtitled “The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat,” Griffin broadly speaking talks about his career, giving many hilarious quotes about his life in and out of the octagon and gives really good advice for anybody wishing to be a professional MMA fighter.

It is a pleasant and comical book to read. Forrest Griffin is a down to earth average guy, extremely humble and funny at the same time. He is not a pretentious champion with an inflated aura like many others competing in the UFC. He sounds more like the next person you’ll meet at the bar and chat with, beer in hand, for a good laugh.

Get your copy of “Got a Fight?”

• Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat – @ Amazon

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