The Ecstasy of the Fight

Writer Kerry Howley spent months travelling through the Midwest, following two mixed martial artists as they tried to make a living through fighting. She writes about the experience in her book, “Thrown.” Howley sees mixed martial arts as an ecstatic, transcendent, experience — both for the fighters and the audience.

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