Your entire job is to get from point A to point B, with anywhere from 10 people to tens of thousands staring at you. The walkout is a special, very specific time. As a fighter, one of the clearest messages you will ever have in life is a backstage handler pointing at you, making a rolling motion and whispering loudly, “OK, go.” But maybe not so great from the perspective of a timed live broadcast. As a self-promotional act, his was funny and fresh. It’s a shame you can’t see this in the replay, but Charles Bennett (at that time called “Krazy Horse”-I’ve lost track of his subsequent nicknames) decided to create his own pageantry and pulled out a cell phone while making the walk as slowly as possible, as if strolling out of a fire-breathing dragon’s mouth was a normal Saturday night for him. This was a live promotional trick that EliteXC was really never given enough credit for, but even at the first show, you could witness MMA’s singular gift for somehow always subverting its own interests. The idea was to climb the stairs and pause at the top, striking a pose as flames blazed out of the dragon’s nostrils and smoke billowed around the platform, creating a kind of mythic, spellbinding pageantry surrounding the journey to the cage. The “EliteXC: Destiny” walkout started at the bottom of a backstage staircase that ascended to a platform located inside a giant replica of a dragon’s mouth. 10, 2007, I made a rookie mistake: I made the walk barefoot.
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