"I'm feeling so good right now...and I beat him!" You should have heard the crowd roar as Terrill Bracken conducted the post fight interview with Billings, Montana's own Bryan Chapel.
Helena, Montana's "Suga Sean" climbed his way to the top of one of the highest mountains in the sports world as a UFC champ. He'll be back on top again soon.
What a backdrop in Missoula with a beautiful baseball field (home to the Paddleheads), the mountains in the background, and the Clark Fork River just past the outfield on a perfectly sunny, warm weekend in the garden city. Great Falls and Havre are right around the corner...
Plus, Haiden "The Haymaker" Willis with an incredible boxing match victory. Lodine's entry got everybody singing "Sweet Caroline." And, of course, you had Brandon “Berserker” Berkman with huge comeback victory in the MMA fight.
My whole family got real excited. I texted them around 6:15 Vegas time Saturday night: "Standing next to Chris Pratt right now." A few minutes later my daughter texted me that everybody was watching the UFC fight back home in Montana.
A crew of Montanans tagged along with Anthem Snacks, the official jerky of the UFC, to attend UFC 300. We also got to get an inside look at the UFC's Performance Institute facility.
As he took the microphone following his victorious fight, he lightheartedly mentioned how he is Muslim, and said Montanans had probably never seen a Muslim before. Other than what they saw on Fox News, of course.
If you follow MMA, then you're surely familiar with the name Shane "Havoc" Fichter. The Billings resident was an absolute animal in the ring during his four-year career in amateur and pro fights in the late 2000s. His story about addiction and recovery is pretty awesome.