How ‘Face The Pain’ became the sound of the UFC

Face The Pain is the unofficial anthem of MMA. This is the story of how it became associated with the UFC.

This feature was originally published on BloodyElbow.com on November 7, 2016.

1998

1998. Presidential politics were rocked by a sex scandal, civil war raged in what was Yugoslavia, and the US launched airstrikes over Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. In the entertainment world, James Cameron’s Titanic became the first movie to gross a billion dollars. Michael Jordan…