You step to Emanuel Newton with the small picture — a fight coming up, say, or losing his title — and he’s quick to remind you that the universe is wheeling tirelessly overhead, with the whole gamut of fates and connections stored away in its infinite breast. Newton’s loss to Liam McGeary this past February was not a devastating event, but just a single thread in life’s ultimate tapestry. Same with his subsequent three-month suspension he received for smoking pot. Just one little seed in the great sticky icky, is all.
Newton — perhaps the fight game’s most unique interview — is always quick to see the winks coming out of the bigger picture.