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WEDNESDAY, November 13th, 2013, AT 11:15 AM/ PST

"Fighting for a Generation:
20 Years of the UFC"


Article By ISCF/IKF President
Steve Fossum












"Often people who criticize your life
are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid
to get where you are today."

















This quote seemed to fit one of the best documentaries I have ever watched. If you have not seen it, I urge you to seek out your cable TV guide for the show

"Fighting for a Generation: 20 Years of the UFC".

It's playing on several different channels and in fact, I've watched it twice and will most likely watch it again... and again... Both times after I watched it I wish I had the cell numbers of Dana White, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta because I would have loved to call them all personally and expressed my personal "Thanks, Respect and Appreciation" for their strive, passion as well as their struggles along their journey to make the UFC what it is today.

It's a 2 hour documentary about the UFC from its beginning to where it is today. After you see it, you will have a new found respect for those involved with its creation and an even bigger respect for those who took it to where it is today.

To all of you involved in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) in some way today as a fighter, trainer, official or fight fan, ask yourself, "What would you be doing differently today if MMA did not exist?" I can assure you all that if not for the drive and determination of Dana White, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta it would not be MMA.

Love em, hate em, jealous of them, whatever your feelings about Dana White, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta and the others who created the name to those who built the UFC to what it is today you will respect what they have done. Not to forget, what their efforts have done for the sport of Mixed Martial Arts and everyone involved in the sport today. They have earned the respect of fighters, trainers and fans around the world and if you wonder why, you need to watch this documentary.

Thank you Dana White, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta for your Perseverance, your Passion and your outright Strength to hold steadfast to something you believed in that has touched so many lives today.

  • Thank you to Art Davie for the idea and to UFC co-founder Rorion Gracie for both your efforts as the driving force behind it's beginning.

  • John Milius for his work as the event's creative director.

  • The Gracie Family for showing the world fights "Do go to the ground and you better know what to do when you get there".

  • To SEG pay-per-view for taking a chance on the new sport.

  • To the first fighters who stepped forward to be in the first UFC, Patrick Smith, Kevin Rosier, Gerard Gordeau, Zane Frazier, Ken Shamrock, Teila Tuli, Art Jimmerson and Royce Gracie.

  • Thank you to television critic Howard Rosenberg who in 1993 in his review of UFC 1 coined the name "Mixed Martial Arts."

  • Joe Silva for his great matchmaking skills.

  • We need to thank the early "Critics" because without them, UFC or more so, MMA would have never become a sport. Thank you to John McCain for his strong opinions and so hated (At the time) actions that would lead to UFC commissioner Jeff Blatnick, referee John McCarthy and matchmaker Joe Silva to work on creating rules and regulations to the UFC to actually make it a sport.

  • And finally, we need not forget those fighters who all of us watched back in the 90's who formed MMA into what it has become today. Mark Coleman, Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Matt Hughes, Tito Ortiz, Vitor Belfort, Mark Kerr, Pedro Rizzo, Murilo Bustamante, Pat Miletich, Frank Shamrock, Mikey Burnett, Jeremy Horn, Pete Williams, Jens Pulver, Evan Tanner, Andrei Arlovski and Wanderlei Silva, among others.



Trailer
"Fighting for a Generation: 20 Years of the UFC"


THE ENTIRE DOCUMENTARY
"Fighting for a Generation: 20 Years of the UFC"




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