If you're reading these words chances are that you like me are a fan of the great sport we call MMA. & if you're a fan then you probably recognize my face. Yeah that's right-I'm that guy you see at every UFC match spinning around & roaring into the microphone & getting up in fighters' grills. Okay so I might not be the most subtle or refined announcer in the business. But I hope I communicate my passion for the sport in a way no other announcer does. I'll say it again: Passion. Because that's what this book is about. In these pages I want to tell you about the passion that first led me to bet everything on this sport of ours way back when MMA was outlawed in half the country & there wasn't a dime to be made on it. I want to tell you how that passion all started with my larger-than-life father a former Marine Drill Sergeant who by the time I was ten had taught me to play poker & blackjack field-strip a Luger pistol blindfolded & recite poetry. He was a man who thought nothing of confronting a group of thugs armed with nothing but his fists-and who expected the same strength & honor from his sons. I want to take you inside the incredible brotherhood that makes up the UFC as nobody ever has before to tell you about the bond we all share & the crazy times I've had over the years with guys like Randy Couture Tito Ortiz Chuck Liddell BJ Penn & Jon Bones" Jones. I want to give you my Octagon-side insights on many of the big fights you remember & just maybe to tell you about a few memorable fights that took place outside of the octagon too-from my own sparring match with a youngster named Royce Gracie back before the phrase " Mixed Martial Arts" even existed to some other brawls you might've heard about. & I want to tell you about the remarkable late-life meeting with the celebrity brother I never knew I had-a brother whose existence my parents had never once breathed a word about!-that helped inspire me to chase my own dreams of standing up in the Octagon. Surprising stuff from the guy in the fancy tux right? & that's just the start. There's a lot you don't know about me yet. & now...IT'S TIME! I told you."