Kanehara's success has come because of his passion for fighting

Before Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar kicked off the mixed martial arts explosion in 2005, before Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey and Jon Jones introduced the world to a new generation of fighter, there was Masanori Kanehara, plugging away on the Japanese scene in 2003 as a 21-year-old who wasn’t thinking of fighting in Las Vegas in January of 2016.At least not yet.“Fighting was pure fun,” Kanehara said of those days. “That's all that mattered.”So while fighting ha