HOOKnSHOOT may be coming to an end, but its influence is everywhere

Jeff Osborne likes to say he survived MMA. That may seem funny to hear from a man with 23 years in the game, but the way he figures, there are thousands of others who weren’t so lucky. Fighters, coaches, promoters — flameouts who lost it all betting on a bloodsport to propel them into society’s one percent. But not him. He endured in a space where few others could. And whether people realize it or not, his mark on the sport is forever indelible, broad bold strokes upon the canv