While it is not something we can physically touch, those rules do not apply in return. Time and the impact of its passage can been felt and seen at every turn, all the while perpetually moving forward without mercy or sympathy to those who operate within its constructs. Time simply is, and while resisting the ever-rolling tide of it is something most attempt, the end result is the same for all.
Mark Munoz has and will always be a fighter by definition, but the focus of those efforts are in the process of changing. "The Filipino Wrecking Machine" has spent the better part of the past decade fulfilling that role in the literal sense as the former Division I national champion wrestler turned mixed martial artist has been a fixture in the UFC's middleweight division.