The first season of The Ultimate Fighter changed the game for MMA and the UFC. It also changed Chris Leben's life.
There isn't much "The Crippler" would alter about everything he learned about himself and other people on the reality series, he told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour.
"I didn't realize until the end of the show that I had a lot of issues," Leben said. "I didn't realize that people didn't wake up and drink every day. I mean, I had been living in my own world."
Leben goes more in depth about his difficult early life, struggles with addiction and successful, yet tumultuous MMA career in a new book, "The Crippler: Cage Fighting and My Life on the Edge.