Michael David Smith is an award-winning journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and ESPN the Magazine. In addition to his work for MMAFighting.com he is a writer at ProFootballTalk.com. As a teenager he watched UFC 1 and has loved the sport since. He and his wife live in Chicago.
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