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All right, I'm coming back with Josh Barnett, the War Master, and I wanted to talk a little bit about the future of

MMA and specifically about UFC.

But let's talk about when you first started real quickly. You were known as the about you have since

were known as the baby-faced assassin.

You have sense have evolved into the war master.

How did the baby-faced assassin come about? Was that your creation?

No, no. Well, see that's a thing is that in general, well in fighting you don't get to pick your nickname.

It's given to you and that's the way.

Every now and then some asshole will just pick their own nickname. It's given to you and that's the way. Every now and then some asshole will just pick their own nickname

or you know? But to your point, most time you don't just pick your own nickname.

And you can always tell who did it.

I'm the ultimate assassin destroyer.

Yeah, that's somebody that picked your own nickname.

Yeah, really. Your coach said, man, this guy is the ultimate assassin destroyer.

I... Fits!

He's the embodiment of all of that.

He is the most perfect male specimen, bone all the ladies and punch every face in the world.

Mr. Wonderful.

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