For contract winner Heinisch, MMA was life-saving

There used to be a contingent that made it their mission to knock combat sports at every turn. It didn’t matter what combat sport it was, but if it involved punching somebody, they would go on about how such an endeavor shouldn’t be allowed.You don’t hear too much from those folks these days, but when they were in their heyday, I used to ask boxers and mixed martial artists what the sport meant to them and what it did for them. In other words, what would they tell someone who t