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RESPECTED, REVERED—AND EXPENDABLE Pain. Getting ripped off. Watching your potential wither on the vine due to contractual disputes that arise when people view you as their property. More pain. For the upper echelon of professional athletes in mixed martial arts, life can resemble the nightmare, described by Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, of a snail traversing the edge of a razorblade.Pound for Pound traces five legends—Georges St-Pierre, BJ Penn, Anderson Silva, Maurício Rua and Fedor Emelianenko—through their humble origins, baptism by blood and fire, and rise to the pinnacle of MMA, where the sword of Damocles constantly threatens.On the surface, we’re conditioned to see these fighters as mere sports entertainers. We consume pay-per-views just as a diner patron drops quarters in a jukebox. Fighters’ lives, however, are often more complex—and disturbing—than what event previews or color commentary portray.

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December 17, 2012
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"Brian J. D'Souza's new book, Pound for Pound: The Modern Gladiators, is a fantastic read... It's outstanding reading and will keep you entertained the whole way through."
--Zach Arnold, FightOpinon.com

"It's a fascinating first-hand look behind the curtain, from a journalist who completely immersed himself in the sport in order to return with some never-before-told stories."
--CagePotato.com

"Most MMA journalists would have been terrified to write this book--it's honest, raw, and unflinching in its portrayal of some of the sport's most powerful figures."
--Jonathan Snowden, author of Total MMA

"Even if you are well versed in MMA (like I am), you'll learn plenty when reading Pound for Pound...with my favourite sections definitely being on Shogun and Fedor and the nonsense that went on behind the scenes in the now-defunct Pride Fighting Championships (Pride never die)."
--Jeff Fox, MMA-Manifesto.com

"Loved reading Pound for Pound, great book! Recommend it for any MMA lover to buy off Amazon and read. Really well done mate.
--Legendary commentator and AXS TV personality Michael "The Voice" Schiavello

"Not sleeping great because I can't stop reading the best MMA book ever."
--Gregg Doyel, national writer for CBSSports.com

About the Author

Brian J. D'Souza is a Canadian writer who has traveled from the gyms of Montreal to the academias of Curitiba, Brazil to the MMA training grounds of Los Angeles and many locales in-between to capture the spirit and heart of the modern gladiators of MMA. He has written for ESPN.com, FoxSports.com, FIGHT! Magazine, Sportsnet Magazine and CagePotato.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thracian Publishing; Not Indicated edition (December 17, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 378 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0988149303
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0988149304
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.86 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,211,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #609 in Martial Artist Biographies
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Brian J. D’Souza is a Canadian writer who has traveled from the gyms of Montreal to the academias of Curitiba, Brazil to the MMA training grounds of Los Angeles and many locales in between to capture the spirit and heart of the modern gladiators of MMA. He has written for ESPN.com, FoxSports.com, FIGHT! Magazine, Sportsnet Magazine and CagePotato.com. Follow him on Twitter @Thracian_Books

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Jeremy

The book you want if you are a fan of Georges St-Pierre

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2013

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I am a huge fan of GSP, who is pretty big in Canada, he's one of the best fighters in the world. The first 70-80 pages of the book are all about Georges, which is good.

I always saw him smiling in interviews, laughing and joking. I assumed that he was raking in millions, enjoying his reign as champion and that he had no problems whatsoever.

How wrong I was.

This book basically tells you about how Georges career was managed poorly. things that went on with bad management, and bad decisions on georges part with his contracts. Its pretty dumb what athletes will sign away, but when you read the rest of the book, you discover that a lot of other guys like Anderson and Fedor were also ripped off in similar or worse ways.

The author writes about sensitive issues throughout the book, like the greasing incident between GSP and B.J. Penn. He doesn't take sides, he just tells us what happened.

The other interesting thing about this book (and this book is really interesting) is how the author uses the chapters about GSP, BJ, or Fedor to segue into sections on other major fighters like Jon Jones, Forrest, Machida or Cro Cop. Then the story kind of comes back to the main fighters, and gives you the most important info about their lives and careers.

the book kind of concludes by telling us just how much of a risk fighting MMA is for the pros. They have no real security, there are a lot of people trying to take from them, and "glory is fleeting." No one realizes these thigns until its usually too late.

Again, for a lot of info that's written in a very interesting style, check "Pound for Pound" out.

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JR Saunders

Pretty good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 29, 2014

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I found this book to be very interesting considering most people don't know what goes on in the background of the fight world. Only reason I didn't rate it a five was due to not really knowing how true all this stuff is. I don't see why it wouldn't be, but I'm that gotta see it to believe it type of guy. Regardless, this will give me more to talk about when referencing the history of mma. Good read, I'd recommend it.

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Jonah

Clean documentary approach

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2013

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This is a decent book which profiles top former fighters. The style is very clean, not overly introspective. But it does go in to the rather sordid business world behind MMA, and this is perhaps the most interesting part of the profiles themselves. We see how fighters struggle with, and often fail, their careers as financial endeavors when they are also struggling to be top athletes.

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scott marler

a must-buy for any MMA fan

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2013

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I am a long time MMA fan and was pleasantly surprised at how much new ground this book covers. I especially liked reading about men like Tom Callos, Victor Vargotsky and others who were instrumental in the development of these great fighters but whose stories aren't as well known.

Most fans know the basic stories of the featured fighters and their fights, but what makes this book special is the behind the scenes look at the circumstances of key points in their careers.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and highly recommend it to all MMA fans.

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Finally something about Fedor!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2013

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This book gets five stars alone for the information about Fedor Emelianenko. Fedor has always dodged the press and finally through his former managers we get to learn a little bit more about him. The chapters on St.pierre, Penn, Shogun, and Silva were good but the last one on Fedor was the best. Fedor and his management had problems with the Japanese mafia and man did he ever get screwed over when it came time to get paid.

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Hanny

Great information terrible writing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2013

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D'Souza's information, research and backstories of all the fighters within his book are amazing. However, his writing style and literary voice could really use some work. The book is very disjointed and almost unreadable at times. The author meanders and is prone to anecdotes that are distracting and don't always apply to the topic at hand. Additionally, the chapters appear to be somewhat haphazardly concluded and have no flow or overall tone. This book was enjoyable for me as I am a huge MMA fan; however, the author needs to really work on his writing skills and maybe find himself a new editor.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2013

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There are quite a few good tidbits in the book, but the writing is oriented towards an ADHD audience. Sometimes tough to read, but a lot of good research and great photos at the end as well!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2015

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all i can say a fine book to read.

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Simon Pratchett

Disppointment in Book Form

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 8, 2013

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Like most who would lean towards buying this book I am an avid mixed martial arts fan. I wouldn't say that I research the subject obsessively, however I read Fighters Only, watch documentaries which are filmed about my favourite fighters, check in regularly on the more popular online forums such as Sherdog and so on. Almost every other MMA fan with whom I share my passion would say the same which means that they, just like me, will learn nothing new from this book. The fighters are portrayed as naïve, pathetic children; victims in the making and are shown only slightly more respect than the managers and promoters who Brian D'Souza spends over 300 pages (and far too much of my time) whinging about. The overarching message? Fight managers and promoters are out to make money and Mr D'Souza thinks they're just SO MEAN!! The honest information portrayed in this utter waste of paper is easily accessible to anyone interested in MMA, while rumours, innuendos and utterly speculative theories make up a fair portion of the text. Read Fighters Only every month. Read the autobiographies of Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, BJ Penn and the hilarious literary outings of Forrest Griffin and Erich Krauss. Watch documentaries such as "Like Water", "Once I Was A Champion", "The Striking Truth" and "Driven". Learn more about the sport that I and an ever-growing number of people have fallen in love with. Just don't do it with this wining annoyance of a book. Pound for Pound: The Modern Gladiators of Mixed Martial Arts

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russell

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 25, 2013

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very good book show how much MMA has came on in the last few years to what it was in the begining but alot of coruption still on the go but i suppose all sports are going to be the same

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Enrique

This is a very good read!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 4, 2014

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This truly delves deep into the MMA world . It truly explains the politics of mma and how it effects the lives of the athletes . This is a very good read !

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Jules

Gut recherchiert, schön strukturiert, angenehm zu lesen. Teils etwas Vorurteilbehaftet.

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on July 2, 2013

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Spannend zu lesen, gibt viel Hintergrundinformationen, logisch gegliedert und - was besonders erfreulich ist - mit jeder menge Quellen belegt. Zeigt Ansätze von investigativem Journalismus, welcher unter Berücksichtigung mehrerer Quellen Sachverhalte nachzeichnet und sie plausibel und transparent darlegt.

Einziger Wermutstropfen: Die MMA-Promotion UFC wird des öfteren (teils ohne Belege) einer sehr harschen Kritik unterzogen. Die in diese Richtung gehenden Aussagen wirken - nicht zuletzt ihrer scheinbaren Selbstverständlichkeit wegen, aufgrund welcher wohl auch gelegentlich auf Quellen verzichtet wurde - oft mehr wie ein Vorurteil und weniger wie das Resultat von journalistischer Arbeit.

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