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Christopher Olech's immersion into mixed martial arts occurred after UFC welterweight Champion Matt Hughes came to his home town for a seminar. Christopher Olech put everything into training with the best in the world, eventually winning a tournament gold finish at Grapplers Quest. He has contributed to Fighters Only magazine, mmacanada.net, mixedmartialarts.com, Ultimate MMA magazine, Gazetta Gazetta and countless other sources as he crafted his own unique writing style before releasing The Fighter Within book through Tuttle Publishing. He has recently won the prestigious Canada Book Award.
Reviewed by Benjamin Ookami for Readers' Favorite
When it comes to the world of Mixed Martial Arts, I cannot envision anyone looking at a fighter who enters an octagon (cage) and not respecting that athlete who is about to engage with an opponent, not knowing if the match will result in a loss or a win. A world of knowledge regarding some of the most famous MMA fighters of our time awaits the reader who picks up Christopher Olech's novel The Fighter Within: Everyone Has A Fight. Christopher Olech has interviewed such MMA giants as Sean "The Muscle Shark" Sherk and Fedor Emelianenko. His novel aims to give readers a sense of what MMA is truly about, and also relates his own journey towards discovering the true meaning of martial arts and how it can be utilized in everyday life.
I will not go into detail about Olech's writing skill, because that is extraordinary in itself. Instead, I will delve into this novel's main subject (MMA) and what exactly Olech has done to give me a whole new perspective on the type of individual that I've always found myself intrigued about from a very young age: the fighter. Olech's own history, given to the reader before the eventual interviews, details his life before and after discovering the MMA world, making it relatively easy to envision him both as a fighter and as a human being, instead of just as a researcher relating some facts. Quite frankly, because of the wonderful insight his interviews have provided me with, I will never look at an MMA fighter the same way again. Olech makes MMA seem like it's more than sport.
