Bloody sport of mixed martial arts grows in popularity
Published 6/9/2008 at Other - BostonHerald.com
GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. - Mike Parker does not hate the man whose face he is now beating.
"Yeaaah! Pound him! Finish him!" men scream all around them. Fifteen hundred...
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