mmamania.com - 4/3/2008
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International Fight League (IFL) competitor Jamal “The Suit” Patterson (4-1) helped bring the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) one step closer to mainstream acceptance on Wednesday with an in-depth profile by the New York Times .
Patterson, like so many of today’s fighters, has a “normal” life consisting of a full-time day job (hence the nickname) and a ...
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... As Jesse Holland writes at MMA Mania, learning that fighters like Patterson have normal lives with full-time day jobs and families may help dispel the myth that MMA fighters are savages, although at this point, the people who are convinced that MMA is savagery probably can't be convinced otherwise, no matter what evidence they're supplied with. ...
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