John Gotti III remembers the first time he ever sat down to watch an MMA fight. It was 2006 and his father, John Jr., had just gotten out of prison. John Jr. told his son about the big UFC title fight between Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture — a trilogy bout — at UFC 57.
John III was in eighth grade at the time. He was just looking to spend some time with his dad, so they watched together.
“Just to bond with him, I wanted to watch the fights,” John III told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour.