Monday, 25 November 2013
UFC 20: Big John
John McCarthy is perhaps the most iconic referee in all of combat sports, but after officiating his first UFC event in March of 1994, he had already had enough.“I told Rorion (Gracie, one of the UFC’s founding fathers) I’m done,” recalled McCarthy. “I will never do that again.”An LAPD officer, McCarthy was in love with combat sports seemingly from the time he was in diapers. And after training in boxing, wrestling, and jiu-jitsu (which he studied under Rorion Gracie), the idea of seeing all the disciplines mixed together was something he couldn’t refuse.“I had always been a huge boxing propone ... Read the Full Article Here
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