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UFC curve
 

At the height of it, when the vodka is gone and his blood is up, Tank Abbott will reach up and take out his front teeth. Turns out what you first thought was fat actually helps him bench press 625 pounds, and toss 300-pound guys across the room. Things are never pretty after that.
 
Oleg Taktarov’s first touch is more of a caress, like you were made of tissue paper. If you look, you can almost see the calculations going on behind his eyes – angles, vectors, rotations. What happens next is as clinical as it is debilitating. Like an orthopedist gone bad.
 
These two guys first met in the octagon in the original Ultimate Fighting Championship – no weight limits, no time limits, no rules. Tank was an unknown Huntington Beach bar fighter who’d had taken out his first two opponents that night - guys with a combined weight of 700 pounds - in seconds. Oleg was a recent Russian immigrant, former Soviet military, back for a second go at the title, and still trying to figure out why someone stopped his last attempt because he was bleeding (for chrissakes).
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That is now Yama ---- the Concept
Today, these two veteran soldiers become captains and coaches, building teams of fighters in their own images to compete against each other.

Each man will draw on his eye for skill, and his reputation as a champion, to recruit raw talent. Tank will draw from the back-room fight clubs and Mexican gyms of working-class SoCal; Oleg from ranks of hungry youth from Russia and the ex-Soviet Republics.

Each team: three men, one woman. Their training regimen: the same study in contrast as their captains.

Oleg believes in a monk-like focus on developing skills and spirit, and will take his team on retreat to the forests outside Moscow - chopping down trees, carrying the trunks and each other across their shoulders as they run in deep snow.

Tank believes that to fight, you need to be where the real fighting is – the street. When the boxing gym gets boring, it's fun to go to a bar and beat down someone with an attitude.

 

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