Matt Hamill: Raw

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Here's what you already know about Matt "The Hammer" Hamill:

He's a three-time NCAA Division III national wrestling champion.

He was a contestant on "The Ultimate Fighter 3."

He owns victories over names such as Seth Petruzelli and Tim Boetsch.

Subjective, but widely popular, Hamill was stuck on the losing end of a split decision against Michael Bisping that left you wondering how two people sitting ringside saw something different than millions of others.

You may have heard this too: Hamill is hearing-impaired.

And here's something else you oughta know: Be it faulty judging or a handicap, Matt Hamill can't care less about what's beyond his control. His leads a life of what the ignorant considers impossible, that of a championship contender and educator of the craft.

There's no complicated formula at work. Hamill's secret is simplicity. His philosophies are take your time, avoid lust and be satisfied. His choice of entrance music to his UFC 88 showdown with Rich Franklin, a former middleweight champion and sparring partner, was Lynard Skynard's "Simple Man," a song far from pulsating but a juxtaposition to Hamill's world.

"Simple Man is a great song and has a very deep meaning to me because it reminds me of my hero, my late grandfather Stanley," Hamill said. "We have a different song ready for UFC 92, and itis perfect for where I am in my career right now."

On Dec. 27 in Las Vegas, Hamill steps back into the octagon for a meeting with Reese Andy. The stats won't overwhelm anybody. Andy is 7-3, his last fight a languorous three-round decision loss to Brandon Vera. Hamill is 4-2 and was stopped by Franklin in the third round of a September fight.

So why should you care? It's simple: Hamill's story on how he earned a winning record in the UFC, a spot in what is annually the company's biggest show, and the focus of a biographical film make him the topic of an exclusive four-part series presented by MMAjunkie.com.

That's why.

"The interest in my life comes from overcoming my disability and never letting it get in my way," Hamill said. "I'm one of a kind in this sport, and I think many people can relate to that."

Some may relate, but most don't get it. It's impossible to fully comprehend how a hearing-impaired person can thrive in hand-to-hand combat. Months are committed into training and perfecting a game plan for each fight – and that blueprint can be crumpled and tossed away in an instant.

That's where a good corner, a group of experts who can spontaneously adjust between rounds and while being audible during the oftentimes ruckus battle, is precious. Hamill's lone communication outlet is sign language, which doesn't resonate when his opponent has side control and is thinking kimura.

"I don't think I realized how much of a step back perhaps being deaf was for him until I fought him," Franklin said. "I knew that he could never really talk to his corners, but it was kind of interesting to me to see what kind of system they were developing to try to give him the same advantage that applies to others that aren't in that situation."

Then again, fighting before 15,000 screaming fans evens the playing field. Your trainer can be begging, imploring in near panic that the end is near, and you won't hear a thing.

"You have to be on auto pilot at that point," said Boetsch, Hamill's second-round TKO victim at UFC Fight Night 13. "During the heat of battle, you're usually not going to be in a situation where somebody is going to tell you something that's going to determine the outcome of the fight. You get in there, let things go, and see how it works out."

It's worked out well for Hamill – so much so that a movie about his early life and career is in the works. Originally slated for a 2009 release, the movie received offers from major studios, but under conditions that would force Hamill's camp to compromise their true beliefs.

That may have delayed the project, but the hell with Hollywood ostentation. This was to be done one way, Matt Hamill: Raw.

"When we signed on we made sure Matt had final say on how he and his family would be portrayed," said Duff Holmes, Hamill's trainer. "Fictionalizing some of the people who made Matt the man he is was not an option for him, and Matt chose integrity over money. The bottom line is this is an amazing story of an amazing life, and it needs to be told the right way."

At one point, Hamill's career was on the right path; the loss to Bisping actually elevated his value. Then Franklin's kick smashed his liver and he keeled over, ending a dreadful performance Hamill called the worst of his life. Holmes called him out for a lack of focus, even suggesting in a published interview Hamill meet with a sports psychologist.

"When Matt first walked into my gym, going on almost four years now, he was so hungry, had so much heart and nothing would get in the way of him," Holmes said. "He kind of lost that hunger."

It was time Hamill to shed the nice-guy image. The way to do that was to go back to the beginning.

 

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Matt Hamill: Raw Part 2

Matt Hamill: Raw (Part 2 of 4) | MMAjunkie.com

Matt Hamill was born October 5, 1976 in Loveland, Ohio, 15 miles northeast of Cincinnati. His biological father, Alex, and mother, Janet, were separated, but Matt quickly developed a tight bond with his stepfather, Mike Rich, who to this day he affectingly calls, "Coach."

It was when Matt was eight months old that Janet and Mike first learned he was born deaf, but that neither crushed Mike and Janet’s spirit, nor prevented Matt from being a kid. He was a bundle of energy, uber-hyper and physical in nature, and the day came when fate introduced Matt to an outlet to unleash that energy. During Christmas break --- Rich's Loveland High School wrestling team was still practicing -- Janet asked Mike to give her a break and take four-year-old Matt to practice. Mike agreed and quickly learned one of his stepson's greatest strengths.

"As Matt was very astute in doing, sitting back and observing was his best learning tool," Rich said. "He had developed a keen sense of observation. Later on in life he’d always say, 'I soaked it up like a sponge.'"

Matt liked the concept of people physically inflicting pain on each other, which to him was like the roughhousing he was already doing with his brothers. After that initial session, Matt became a regular guest at Rich's practices, even hollering a few instructions at the wrestlers.

"The wrestling mat was an even playing field for me, it didn't matter if I could hear or not," Hamill said. "The mats became my home, and it kept me busy and out of trouble."

Hooked, Matt wondered if Loveland had any wrestling for little kids. Because of his natural born strength -- his biological father was a collegiate weightlifter -- Matt was advanced compared to those in his age bracket and he dominated the competition as he grew bigger and stronger. The summer before entering ninth grade, Matt enrolled in 1960 Olympic freestyle gold medalist Doug Blubaugh's Top of the World wrestling camp in Bloomington, Ind., where he spent his next three school vacations.

Matt's wrestling education didn't end with the dawn of a new school year. After practices at Loveland High, he'd drive 55 minutes to Dayton and former Ohio high school champion Jeff Jordan's camp, where one day he met Purdue assistant wrestling coach Scott Hinkel. Matt raced home to tell his parents to expect a phone call, one which Hinkel raved about skills he had never seen out of anyone at the high school level.

"Matt became his own self-made wrestling being," Rich said. "He's a monster in terms of eating and drinking [wrestling]; he's so set up like a sponge. He has such a keen sense of observation, a keen sense of wanting to never be satisfied, always wanting to improve himself and never backing down from a challenge.”

Matt competed at Purdue for one season (1996-97), but there were problems. The interpreting services promised by the program weren't adequate. Once Matt dropped out and returned home, Janet called Ron Gross, the wrestling coach at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the home of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Gross recruited Hamill out of high school but had no chance at him due to his Division I talent.

Gross left the door open if it didn't work out at Purdue. Hamill and his parents stepped through it. During the offseason, Hamill rolled with RIT's wrestlers during an open mat session. Gross, a member of two national championship teams at Ithaca College (1989 and 1990) and a two-time All-American inducted into school's Hall of Fame in 2004, had to test Hamill out for himself.

"He took me down with no problem, like four our five times in a row," Gross recalled. "His strength was second to nobody I've ever wrestled."

RIT also had a full-time interpreter at every practice and competition. Hamill's family was sold on the package, and Gross received a phone call he dreamed about for the last two years.

"I was jumping up and down in my living room because I knew he was going to be transferring in," Gross said. "That was a good day for me."

Competing for RIT, Hamill became a three-time NCAA Division III national champion and took part in the 2001 Summer Deaflympics, where he won a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling and gold in freestyle wrestling. One Fourth of July, Rich saw Hamill watching a UFC bout on television. Hamill told him, "I think I might do that."

A month later, Hamill accepted his first MMA fight near South Bend, Ind.

"I asked Janet, 'What has this boy gotten into now?'" Rich said.

Hamill won in the first round via multiple strikes, as well as his second fight, held in his backyard of Cincinnati. He then cooked up a story that he was traveling to Oklahoma to train with 2000 Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner, but Rich grew suspicious when Matt said via e-mail that Gardner had moved his camp to New Mexico.

A resource officer in Cincinnati who ran local MMA shows revealed that rumor had it Hamill was in Las Vegas being screened for the third deason of "The Ultimate Fighter." Both parents were stunned that Matt led them on a wild goose chase, and more so when Hamill was accepted and was to train under the legendary Tito Ortiz. Right before the tapings, Hamill accepted a request for help on a mat game from the UFC's middleweight champion, a feared striker named Rich Franklin.

Injuries forced Hamill out of the "TUF" competition before the semifinals, but he TKO'd Jesse Forbes on The Ultimate Fighter 3 Finale, a debut that lasted 4:47 into round one. His next fight was a unanimous decision win over Seth Petruzelli well before the latter's taste of fame thanks to his 14-second KO of Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson.

"After the fight with Jesse, I was happy to get my first official win inside the octagon," Hamill said. "I was very raw at that point and was able to use my limited skills and pull off the win. As for Seth, he and I had a war. It was the first time I faced someone so well-rounded. I was happy to get the decision."

Hamill's first fight since the controversial loss to Michael Bisping was to be against Stephan Bonnar at UFC Fight Night 13 in suburban Denver. When Bonner was forced to withdraw due to a serious knee injury suffered during training, another UFC newcomer anxious to impress named Tim Boetsch took the fight on 10 days' notice. Stacked at 5-foot-11, 205 pounds and aptly nicknamed "The Barbarian," Boetsch attacked his opponents with ferocity and brute skills in wrestling and Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do.

Boetsch delivered a wicked knee to Hamill's jaw in round one that opened a severe cut on Hamill's lower lip, but despite eating two more, Hamill kept coming. Besides taking Boetsch's best shots, Hamill also handled what his opponent couldn't: Colorado's high altitude. Winded in round two, Boetsch attempted a single-leg takedown but left himself open for a relentless pounding. With Boetsch's head pressed against the cage, Hamill unloaded, and the fight was stopped at 1:25.

"I landed a real solid blow and I'd say if that happened to nine out of 10 guys, the fight would have been over right there," Boetsch said. "But he can take shots, and that's one of his attributes. He has a real strong chin and I definitely tested it that night.”

Well before the battles with Bisping and Boetsch, Hamill's story was grabbing attention. Shortly before a TKO win over Rex Holman moved his UFC record to 3-0, Hamill was contacted by writer/producer/actor Eben Kostbar and director/producer Joe McKelheer regarding their interest in making his life story into a movie. Hamill was a UFC neophyte but living a life compelling enough for someone to want to build upon it.

"I was very excited and honored," Hamill said. "They flew to Columbus for the Rex Holman fight to meet face to face with me."

Hamill was happy, and his confidence was at a high. His TKO of Boetsch improved his UFC record to 4-1, proved his performance against Bisping wasn't a fluke, and justified the fan and media backlash. Without hesitation Hamill accepted a fight with Franklin, his old sparring partner and friend, at UFC 88.

It was set up perfectly. A win over a popular former middleweight champion returning to the light-heavyweight division would elevate Hamill into serious title consideration. Once during a sparring session, Hamill took Franklin down with stunning ease, so the plan was to stand with Franklin for no more than a minute and then take the fight to the mat, where Hamill ruled.

Hamill knew Franklin like a book. He also loved and respected him. That admiration was the beginning of a cycle that sent Hamill's world crashing down.

 

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Matt Hamill: Raw Part 3

Matt Hamill: Raw (Part 3 of 4) | MMAjunkie.com

Part of what drives Matt Hamill is a darker side of his childhood. Being completely deaf made him very angry. When he was 6, he'd ask his parents if he'd hear by age 7. The answer was, "I don't know Matt." He'd ask again two years later, hoping hearing would come by age 9, but the answer remained unchanged.

Hamill dealt with internal resentment through each stage of boy to man. Wrestling provided a degree of self worth in that he could be like everyone else, and his initial success helped him become an ambassador to deaf people and anyone who had any kind of a handicap. He coped with his deafness to a point. Most often, Hamill had the ability to properly channel angry emotions into winning a fight.

"I really feel that rage still exists," said stepfather Mike Rich. "He has some communication setbacks. He's not grasping the reality of everything, so sometimes we think he has that chip on his shoulder a little bit.

"I'm continually amazed that each challenge he faces, because of this innate energy and mindset that he has within, he's able to assess everything he needs to do to be successful and does it at a higher degree than the challenge he just met."

There was a time Hamill was nearly consumed by negative emotions. His senior year of high school, Hamill, seeded second, lost in the semifinals of the state tournament to his fifth-ranked opponent, who was also the defending champion. A downcast Hamill retreated to his hotel room and refused to compete in the third-place match. In his mind, nobody remembered anyone less than No. 1. Secure with a full ride to Purdue University, Hamill was telling his coach/stepfather he was quitting.

Rich's assistant pulled Hamill aside and told him how proud he was of all his students regardless of whether they finished in fourth, sixth or even last place. Most of the other athletes couldn't touch Hamill, but they were finishing. He was choosing to be a quitter.

Suddenly there was an Achilles' heel to Hamill's game. Mentally, he could short-circuit at any moment.

"When everything is going all hunky-dory, he's on top of the world," Rich said. "But in some of his matches, when he faces a little adversity, he seemed to drag his head a little bit and was like, 'Oh, the hell with it.'"

"Things are kind of easy for him," said Ron Gross, his collegiate coach. "He's such a natural athlete, and he's so strong that there were times where I think he needed that extra push. He needed to be yelled at once in awhile."

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Hamill first met Rich Franklin through Rob Radford, the latter's boxing coach and a friend of the Hamill family. Franklin was the reigning UFC middleweight champion looking for help with his wrestling. Radford referred him to Hamill, who was in training for a possible spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

"That first encounter with him, I felt completely helpless," Franklin said. "His wrestling skills were at such a higher level than mine it was difficult to deal with."

By the time a Hamill-Franklin showdown was broached years later, Hamill had stopped Tim Boetsch, and Franklin bounced back from his second TKO loss to Anderson Silva with a second-round TKO of Travis Lutter. UFC matchmaker Joe Silva called Duff Holmes about the idea of Franklin vs. Hamill at "UFC 88: Breakthrough" in Atlanta on Sept. 6. On the surface, it was a hard fight to take. The respective camps and management teams were tight with each other, and Holmes was concerned over whether Hamill could bring out his best effort against his friend. Once Hamill assured him that friendship is friendship and business is business, Holmes' eyes lit up because he fully believed his fighter could defeat Franklin.

What Holmes didn't know was a bevy of personal issues Hamill carried to Atlanta, one problem being the strain of traveling back and forth from his training headquarters in Utica, N.Y., to Ohio and his young daughter. Furthermore, not only was the movie project gaining steam, an unusually large entourage showed up at Hamill's hotel for the biggest fight of his budding career.

Determined to win and confident in his fighter's chances, Holmes implored Hamill to take the fight to the ground and neutralize Franklin's striking ability. To his horror, Hamill's head that night was not a sponge, but a sieve. His heart wasn't trained to destroy. It was lighter than your average flyweight.

Franklin ate an uppercut early in round one and was taken down two minutes into the fight. Hamill then got caught in an armbar and took a knee to the chin upon dismount. Toward the end of the round, Franklin's corner was heard yelling, "He's tired. Rich, he's tired!"

Franklin took over in round two with kicks to Hamill's legs and one to the face. Hamill failed to answer and showed none of his superior wrestling ability. He caught breaks only when referee Mario Yamasaki halted the fight to examine a huge gash over Franklin's right eye and when Hamill absorbed a low blow at the 1:53 mark.

Forget about a reprieve. The current was going against Hamill, and he was caving in.

"I think if Matt would be willing to stand there and trade with me a little bit; I kind of assumed he would have abandoned that game plan sooner than he did, but he didn't," Franklin said. "Specifically, I was not surprised by the fact he came out and wanted to throw some punches and that eventually he took me down. I was surprised that when things started not going in the direction you'd want to go for him, he didn't abandon the game plan a little sooner and try to take me down a little earlier in the match."

By round three, Hamill was winded and cut down like a tree. A left kick to the liver dropped him, and Yamasaki immediately stopped it at 39 seconds. Hamill's inspirational story was given a brutal -- and self-inflicted -- reality check.

"It was the worst performance of my life, and I was embarrassed," Hamill said. "I let everyone down, and I'm paying for it by taking a huge step backwards in the UFC. I feel like I gift-wrapped a win for Rich. I had a lot going on, and that just wasn't my night. Rich caught me getting lazy and covering up. Then he blasted me in the liver. ... It felt like a baseball bat."

The opportunity was there. A win would have elevated Hamill and enabled him to sign a new UFC contract. Instead, with a mere two fights left on his contract, he was pushed closer to the brink of UFC extinction. In an e-mail to Hamill, Gross wrote, "That was [expletive] B.S." Holmes, recalling bringing in Steve Mocco for a workout and seeing Hamill take down the 2003 NCAA Division I champion at 285 pounds, yelled, "You're telling me you can't take Rich Franklin down?" There was to be no that's-OK-we'll-get-'em-next-time speech. Holmes ripped his fighter in a published interview and was still steaming more than three months later.

"When you have a fighter who is so talented," Holmes said, "who you know deep down is hungry and has never let anyone stop him before, to go out and just basically, completely, deviate from a game plan, and in effect throw it out the window ... he didn't even acknowledge me in the corner and didn't give it anywhere near his 100 percent.

"It was not OK. He did nothing. That's not Matt Hamill. At the time, I had to figure out what was psychologically blocking him because I knew it wasn't physical."

There was only one thing for Holmes to do. He told Hamill I love you, but if you don't think like a killer, I'm not going to help you fight anymore. Since then, the duo has been together virtually 24/7 training, rolling and strategizing with the solitary purpose of creating a killer hell-bent on destroying Reese Andy.

 

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Matt Hamill: Raw Part 4

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Killer wasn't exactly what Eben Kostbar had in mind when he created the concept of "Hamill." Kostbar, an actor Maryland bred and now living in Los Angeles, and director/partner Joe McKellar, approached Matt Hamill three years ago with the idea of presenting a humble, genuine human being who overcomes being deaf to win three Division III championships at RIT. At the time, Hamill was barely getting started in the UFC, so the part of badass athlete whose job is to beat the crap out of an opponent was new to the Kostbar-McKellar group.

Hamill was sold instantly on the script and Kostbar the actor and writer. Kostbar was a high school wrestler and played football at a small Division III school called Frostburg State University before moving west to pursue an acting career. He's done alright for himself with appearances in "The Unit" and TV pilots "Wrigleyville" and "Cockblockers," but he is also building a name behind the scenes. His short film, "Karma Café," won 10 awards in nationwide film festivals. Two of those honors were bestowed by the public when the film earned Audience Awards at the Brooklyn International and Smogdance Film Festivals in 2007.

The concept of "Hamill" intrigues Kostbar because he can relate to a certain extent. He's only 5-foot-8 without perfect genetic form, but he savored the underdog role as an athlete and today as a storyteller. Once he saw Hamill on "The Ultimate Fighter 3," Kostbar saw a bit of him and the chance to bring a true story to life without the usual tear-jerking Hollywood melodrama.

"I'm a huge fan of sports underdog films, and I've always wanted to do one of him," Kostbar said. "There are a million underdog stories, but there's only one Matt Hamill.

"The movie isn't just about Matt overcoming being deaf and his achievements in wrestling. We didn't want to do a story about this poor little deaf boy. This isn't a PBS special. It's about Matt's life, and that's what really sold us on the movie."

An added bonus is Kostbar's fluency in American Sign Language, which combined with his natural athleticism made for Hamill's endorsement of Kostbar in the lead role. No sooner after that was announced, Kostbar's group was targeted by a segment of the deaf community that believed a deaf actor should play a deaf person.

This was a double standard. Jamie Foxx earned acclaim for his portrayal of Ray Charles, and he's not blind. Dustin Hoffman played autistic savant Raymond Babbitt in "Rain Man." Both won Oscars for Best Actor. Yes, Kostbar is neither Foxx nor Hoffman, but he was Hamill's choice to represent his life.

"Eben and Joe are the passion behind this project," Hamill said. "I totally believe in them and especially Eben being able to play the role of me. They want to celebrate and promote the deaf community, not disrespect it in any way."

Initially, the reaction hit Kostbar hard because deep down he knew he could pull it off. Then he thought of Marlee Matlin, the deaf actress who also won the Academy Awards' top honor for her role in "Children of a Lesser God."

"You're born in that culture, and it's what you already know," Kostbar said. "The deaf community sees the potential of this movie. They don't know me from anybody, and they wonder how is Eben going to portray our culture and our community correctly and proudly? What happens if he doesn't? It'll just set us back further."

That's when Kostbar decided to hold a casting call for the role of Hamill and seek out a deaf actor. While the controversy delayed the project, Kostbar is confident it'll be developed and filmed by the fall of 2009.

"We're not giving in," Kostbar said. "If anything, I think we're showing a lot of unselfishness."

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Nearly his entire life, Matt Hamill has overcome and done things not everyone thought he could do. He's a collegiate champion who earned a spot in the UFC -- all while fighting in silence. The way he describes it is being under water trying to hear someone yelling to you. At other times, he can see things before they happen. Somehow, he picks up on the tiniest of hints. Think of a word-class poker player measuring an opponent's breaths or twitches that give away a winning or losing hand.

"For somebody in Matt's situation, this is all he's ever known," said Rich Franklin. "He doesn't necessarily have to compensate because he's not compensating for something that he lost. It's just always been this way for him. He doesn't know any other way."

Because everything fell apart one night in Atlanta, Hamill learned to drop everything having to do with friendships and benevolence. Deep inside Hamill lays a beast. Ron Gross saw it before a finals match during Hamill's junior year. When warming up, Hamill gave off a vibe that was chilling, and Gross couldn't comprehend it. His polite and placid student, who often had to be poked, prodded and reprimanded, had the look of a killer.

"I looked him in the eye and asked him, 'Are you ready to go?'" Gross recalled. "He didn't say a word. He didn't nod. He just stared into my eye. I shook his hand and patted him on the ass, and turned to my assistant coach and I said, 'Don't get too comfortable in the corner because this isn't going to last very long.'"

Hamill locked on a "cement mixer," a vice-like grip that grabbed the neck and throat of his opponent, threw him back to the mat and pinned him in less than a minute. When that kid got up, the whites in his eyes could have blinded the room.

"It's always been in him," Gross said. "It's like a switch. If it's off, he can lose to anybody. If it's on, I wouldn't want to be on the other side of the octagon no matter who the hell it is."

Saturday night in Las Vegas, Reese Andy will either be a victim or the one who may end Hamill's UFC career. Hamill blew a chance at a new contract with his terrible loss to Franklin and has two fights left on his current deal. With another ugly effort, UFC President Dana White might ignore emotion and make a business decision. If the Hamill that wiped out Tim Boetsch -- and in the public's eyes defeated Michael Bisping -- destroys Andy, he's back in the title hunt.

As his stepfather once told him, you have a choice: You can be the hammer or the nail.

"Matt knows he has to come out like a caged animal in this one," said Mike Rich. "For his betterment and what he wants to do with his future in UFC, we're going to see the Matt Hamill we saw against Bisping: stalk, stalk, stalk and attack his prey."

In a figurative sense, it's kill or be killed. On Saturday the world will learn if fear is Hamill's finest motivator. The Hamill camp is talking about "The Ultimate Fighter 8" light-heavyweight winner Ryan Bader as their next target. Deep down, they'd also love another shot at Franklin, and Boetsch would love a chance to avenge his TKO loss anywhere except Colorado. But a loss to Andy, a bulldog who had just four-and-a-half weeks to prepare for a lackluster loss to Brandon Vera, and who now comes in completely re-focused, could prove costly.

"I picked on him, telling him if he loses he'll be fighting in someone's basement," Gross said. "He can't afford a loss against a guy that hasn't proven himself in the UFC. That would be devastating for him.

"I hope Reese Andy tries to take him down because he's going to experience something he's never experienced before. I think Matt is going to prevail and hopefully start this thing over again, like he was after ('TUF 3') -- very hungry."

Before every fight, Hamill is always the sentimental favorite. Against Andy, he returns to the role of the bettor's favorite. How he handles the pressure will either extend or abruptly terminate his journey just as it's really getting started.

"I don't know where it will take me, but I'm excited to find out," Hamill said. "Outside of the octagon, I will be the same guy I have always been."

Hamill's story may have been written, but he and his public want a lot more. Now all he has to do is find another way.

 

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