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Join the MMA Detective Mike Davis and co-host Joey Venti for an exclusive deep dive with Paul “The Hitman” Herrera — Division I All-American wrestler (Nebraska, 142 lbs), Tito Ortiz’s high school wrestling coach, and core member of the legendary Tank Abbott crew in Huntington Beach.
In this raw, no-holds-barred conversation, Herrera recounts the Wild West days of MMA: his Olympic Trials run, training with Mark Schultz at BYU, the infamous UFC 6 elevator incident with Pat Smith, dojo-storming Alan Gomez alongside Tank Abbott and Eddie Ruiz, cornering Tito Ortiz’s UFC 13 debut, his own UFC 8 fight against Gary Goodridge, and his bout with Kazushi Sakuraba in Japan. He also details promoting the underground Hitman Fight Series and his current coaching at Huntington Beach Ultimate Training Center.
The MMA History Podcast is the only show 100% dedicated to preserving mixed martial arts history through first-hand interviews with the men who lived it.
I still wanna know the details of the Pat Smith elevator fight - I’ve heard many different versions of it and don’t know what to believe lol
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I seriously thought he passed years ago
Pat Smith did .. cancer
Did we ever get Pat Smiths version of the events that transpired?!?!
I don’t think so. He would have been a great podcast guest - I bet he had plenty of stories
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Thank You Phooey
I 100% gave the credit to the questions that I got from here
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You mentioned the SEG assistant Paula Romero. Have you tried to contact her? I remember her coming on the old message board.