Matt Brown: An ode to the UFC’s original ‘technical brawler’

Back in September, Matt Brown announced that his fight with Diego Sanchez would be his last. Brown, who cheated death at a young age back in Ohio and fought 23 times in the UFC, didn’t like the apathy that came over him in his last bout, just before he stepped out to fight Donald Cerrone. It scared him to wonder what on earth he was doing right before he was to go out and do it. It gave him vertigo to realize those were his thoughts. He contemplated fleeing the locker room, getting the hel