View from The Hawks Nest An event review from a fan's perspective By Matthew “MMAHAWK” Hawkins Follow @MMAHAWK21 Tito Ortiz All photos by Matthew Hawkins December 11th 1999 at The Cobra Challenge In May of 1997 I was a senior in high school and already addicted to the sport of no holds barred fighting. A couple years earlier I was introduced to the UFC by a cousin and from that point on I knew this was the sport for me. Whether it was carrying around my collection of VHS tapes everywhere I went or challenging members of the varsity football team to submission matches in a friend's living room after school, I simply couldn’t get enough o f it. Eventually, I began to reach out to UFC pioneer Mark Hall about training and learning what being a fighter was about. On the night of May 3 0th of the same year, the UFC held UFC 13. The card consisted of two four-man tournaments along wi th a super fight heavyweight bout featuring Vitor Belfort vs Ta...
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