This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.

All right, guys. Dave got a special guest on the podcast. His name is Nate, the great

Mark Hortz. So he is an MMA fighter. He formerly was a middleweight and welterweight fighter in

the UFC. And he's also the former Strike Force welterweight champion and three time pancreas

middleweight champion. So this is a guy that he kind of bridged the gap between being one of the

original guys that started in the 90s. You know, we had to fight multiple times in one night

through, you know, to the specialization arrow, you know, as you get into the UFC Strike Force,

some of those organizations where you're fighting maybe two or three times a year. And so we talk

about all that in this episode. So we get into the Xs and O's of what early MMA was like compared

to today. Some of his biggest losses, biggest wins. So obviously he won the title against Tyrone

Woodley and Strike Force, lost a title fight against Anderson Silva and the UFC considered by

many to be the greatest middleweight fighter of all time, even though he's popped several times. But

anyway, that's not what we talked about today. So we did talk about a lot of kind of the Xs and

O's and stuff of MMA. And that's all really interesting. But the biggest dominating thing about

Nate's life is the fact that he's a Christian. He's a Christ follower and he became a Christ follower

while he was still fighting. And so you kind of have that inner dissonist that that conundrum to where

it's like, wait, can I punch people in the face and still be a Christian? And I really liked his

answer to that. But in this interview today, again, we do talk about the MMA stuff. But then we talk a

lot about how he didn't just become a Christian, but he took Christianity so seriously that he went

to seminary, you know, he's selling his house and moving to to basically go be a missionary and

instead of a Christian schools. And a lot of very, very interesting things. This is a guy that takes

his faith and takes study of the scripture and being a disciple of Christ very seriously. So there's

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