Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez

You know, it's for me to start something but in a way of the Bushido way, of the code of honor and respect and so forth.

This is what I felt that we were doing, building up a way of life.

We're warriors.

will fight with dignity and honor and respect.

And along the line, when actually my last fight was in 95, 94, I got my last fight.

And then it started to change because the graces came in in 90 and 95, it started mixed martial arts all the way up to 2000.

And then cage fighting was... Huge.

Man, just everywhere.

But I wasn't really... I was following some of it, but I didn't like some of it.

It didn't leave a good taste.

And because when I saw some of these guys were on the ground just pounding this guy on the ground, I thought, wow...

was that me in the street once upon a time when I was young?

And I said, so a lot of it that...

I didn't want to take their livelihood from them because I didn't want to hurt them to the point where they couldn't make a living if they were married, if they were, you know.

So I always had that in my mind, in my heart, that to me it was a sport.

When somebody hit the ground, I said, get back up.

I pinned a lot of people, but to hit them on the ground, I just said, get back up, let's

That's right.

That's right.

But again, you know, the fight game, again, there's a difference between the fight and the art of sport.