Front Page NY Times Article on MMA



On the subway this morning I looked over someone's shoulder and saw the startling photo above on the front page of the New York Times. The article takes the occasion of a Fedor Emelianenko seminar in Atlantic City to examine the sport as a whole. It doesn't do a bad job, overall, and includes a slideshow of some great fight images from MFC 7 (one of which is reproduced below).



"I guess I'm a dreamer," said Joey Brown, a 39-year-old fighter from Lodi, N.J., who goes by the nickname Knockdown. "It takes a dreamer to do what we're doing."

Brown has a full-time job, a 1-5 record and an assistant manager he pays by helping to baby-sit her mentally disabled daughter. He works days for an auto parts company in North Jersey and trains nights at a gym in Manhattan. From the moment Brown saw the first Ultimate Fighting Championship — "Nov. 12, 1993," he recited proudly — he found a sport that spoke to him.

Read the whole article at NYTimes.com