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Blood in the Cage

Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich, and the Furious Rise of the UFC

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Blood in the Cage

By: L. Jon Wertheim
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
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 Based on unlimited access to the Ultimate Fighting Championshipand its rival leagues, Blood in the Cage peers through the chain-link Octagon into the frighteningly seductive world of mixed martial arts, which is exploding in popularity despite resistance from every corner.

Wertheim focuses on Pat Miletich, a mixed-martial-arts pioneer and six-time UFC champion, who currently runs the most famous MMA training school in the world. Miletich has Single-handedly transformed a gritty town on the banks of the Mississippi into an unlikely hotbed for his sport. He has also transformed many an average Joe into a walking weapon of destruction.

Wertheim intertwines Miletich's own life story, by turns tragic and triumphant, with the larger story of the unholy rise of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, from its controversial, back alley roots to the fastest-growing sporting enterprise in America.

For fans of Jeff MacGregor's Sunday Money and Sam Sheridan's A Fighter's Heart, Blood in the Cage takes readers behind the scenes, right down to the mat, from a punch in the kidney to the ping of the cash register, as Wertheim brilliantly exposes the no-holds-barred reality of the blood sport for a new generation.

©2009 L. Jon Wertheim (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Combat Sports & Self-Defense Martial Arts Heartfelt

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Very good and insightful into the fighers lives and dedication to their drive to be a competitor. Some good small stories (or myths) into UFC fighers.

Very instightful into Mixed Martial arts people

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ufc facts, informitive, backstorys and methods very very infomative amazing book would recomend it was very very good

blood in the cage

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excellent book could not stop listening untill the finish. Pat is a warrior through and through

gripping

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very interesting book that sheds light on both pat military and the world's most misunderstood sport. takes the listener from the brutal, unregulated beginning to where the sport is today.

great book

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The best sports book I have ever read/listened too.
Writing is tough, direct, sometimes brutal and often hilarious.
Narrator does a great job bringing the book well and truly to life.
100% recommend

Excellent in every way.

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