MMA and military merge in UFC fighter Brian Stann’s book, "Heart for the Fight"

As someone who covers mixed martial for a living, I’ve spent a half-decade trying to learn what makes fighters tick.

That question, in fact, it was lured me to the sport in the first place. Why in the world, I wondered, would an otherwise-sane person …

As someone who covers mixed martial for a living, I’ve spent a half-decade trying to learn what makes fighters tick.

That question, in fact, it was lured me to the sport in the first place. Why in the world, I wondered, would an otherwise-sane person voluntarily enter a cage with the hopes of beating the snot out of another?

Brian Stann’s new autobiography, “Heart for the Fight,” is a 320-page, all-encompassing answer to that question.