I had such hopes for you, Liddell! I mean, anyone who knows anything about the UFC has heard about how amazing your knockout power is, and how you pretty much dominated the sport for a while and had that crazy #deathstare and took no prisoners etc etc etc #legendary And you won me over with your childhood stories and those cute pictures of you in your Cubs outfits and all that talk about “just wanting to fight, I just want to scrap, I don’t care about the money, it’s about my passion, I’ll work for it until I die because I just love it so much”. If your love for MMA is far beyond enjoying MMA, or being an 'enthusiast', but your MMA affinity has become an unhealthy addiction, then you'll give this book 5 stars despite the poor writing. If you are a casual MMA fan then you may give this book 3 stars. If you are a regular Joe (or Jill), and you're not an MMA fan then you'll give this book 1 star. If you majored in English in college and you're not an MMA fan then you will burn the book before you finish reading it. Here's an adjusted rating scale for this book. What this book does for me is it gives me the story of one of MMA's biggest stars from his childhood through his rise to the top of the sport. I have what doctors call a little bit of an MMA (mixed martial arts) addiction. It would be nice, sometimes, to read less critically again.) (I have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with Goodreads, because, anymore, I'm constantly thinking of what kind of a rating/review I will give a book as I read it. It definitely comes with it's share of warts, but just because something is ugly doesn't mean it's not beautiful inside (a sweet spirit, you might say). This may be the most poorly-written book to ever have received a 5-star rating.

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