Every few Saturday nights I retire to an undisclosed location to watch the fastest-growing sport in the world. And as mixed-martial arts continues its ascent into the mainstream with network TV contracts, advertising deals for some of its biggest stars and steadily increasing press coverage, I hearken back to the days when MMA was nothing more than a hodgepodge of Neanderthals loaded in a cage somewhere in the Midwestern U.S. to the delight of blood-thirsty fans

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