Cory Sandhagen

Yeah.

To just whack and hear the whole crowd go silent was the wildest thing.

I fucking loved it.

It was my favorite thing in life.

I was like, wrestling is cool.

It's good to know.

It's good to be able to pin people, but there was no UFC back then.

Everything you were doing was just like you had to find a thing and get really good at it.

But the disillusionment of going from Taekwondo to boxing and kickboxing and then to Muay Thai and then jiu-jitsu.

So when I started doing jiu-jitsu, I was like, oh, my God, I'm fucking completely helpless.

So I had this thing in my head.

Well, at least I know how to leg kick.

I know how to box now.

I know how to fight.

Oh, my God, I'm tapping out constantly.

And so then I was like, fuck, I got to learn how to do jiu-jitsu.

Yeah.

But it was this thing where, you know, I feel real fortunate to have grown up in a time where no one knew what was the best style and then see the UFC emerge in 93 and then watch this incredible transformation of martial arts where martial arts advances more in 10, 20 years than it had the last 30,000 years.

It was incredible to watch.

No one knew, man.