The Monte Cox story
He always will be remembered as one of the driving forces of the sport, a trailblazer who has promoted shows…
He always will be remembered as one of the driving forces of the sport, a trailblazer who has promoted shows and managed superstars and even brought about some of mixed martial arts’ earliest sanctioning.
But it took seeing a familiar face for former newspaperman Monte Cox to look further into the sport’s potential.
In our latest Sunday feature, MMAjunkie.com’s Kyle Nagel explains how, in 1995, a piece of paper slid across Cox’s desk at the Quad City Times newspaper, promoted Pat Miletich’s professional debut, and put in a motion one of MMA’s true entrepreneur stories.
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