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Tank Abbott, The Timeless Warrior “I was fighting when the prize was going to jail I wasn’t winning a belt And I’m still here doing it I loved to do it then And I still love to do it now And I didn’t turn on the TV one day And say, ‘Hey, I want to be an Ultimate Fighter’ I’ve been a fighter/warrior all my life And that’s the way I’ll die.” -David L Abbott (from UFC 43 Meltdown prior to the fight)

The above words could have come from Jesse James, Ned Kelly, Spartacus or some other timeless warrior whose legend will hover over the centuries, but not be laid to rest in any fixed time frame. In two hundred years from now, no one knows what techno-wizardry people will be looking back at today’s videos on, but Tank Abbott will be regarded as one of these elite warriors.

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