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Here are a few personal highlights from my MMA career and some things I look forward to.

And I'm looking forward to making more memories and contributions in the next chapter of my life. There have been a lot of big moments over the years, lots of ups and downs - sometimes both ups and downs in the very same fight. Now, nearly 20 years later, I'm about to close out my fight career at UFC 281, and I'm doing it practically in my backyard over at Madison Square Garden in New York ( Saturday, 10 p.m. I was never in a fight where I was the bigger guy, just like Royce in the day. I was always the little guy in a fight, too, going back to when I was very young and scrapping with other kids. All we knew was this little guy was somehow putting it on these bigger dudes. None of us at the time understood what jiu-jitsu was. He was winning and I had no idea how he was doing it. I was already wrestling by then, so I was interested to see how the wrestlers would do. My buddy and I heard about this new no-rules thing, this spectacle, and I went to his house to watch. It was right around the start of the UFC, either UFC 1 or UFC 2. Then, I saw MMA for the first time in seventh grade. The men were pissed that they'd bought a fight that ended nearly as soon as it started.īut even in that short time, it became a memorable night. I don't remember who Tyson was up against - it might have been Michael Spinks - but I do remember Tyson going out there and getting a quick knockout.

It was late at night and a bunch of my dad's friends were there, all hyped up for the big fight. I went to my next-door neighbor's house with my old man to watch Mike Tyson.

It was sometime in the 1980s, and I was a young kid. I remember the first time I ever saw a prizefight. Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM.(Editor's note: This story was written with the assistance of ESPN's Jeff Wagenheim) We'd been together for a year and a half when he asked the question, it may have seemed soon to people who didn't know us, but everyone. He was also the guy who was going to be walking me down the aisle.

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