Moti Horenstein was the first Jewish fighter to compete in the UFC.
Perhaps it is human nature that we endow the negative spectrum of emotions -- grief, loss, depression -- with a sense of clarity that happiness and elation do not seem to warrant. Indeed, the war stories of aging fighters tend to read as an obituary of nostalgia, arthritic hands clutching an emptied bottle of malt liquor for the glory days of old. Positive feelings seldom make appearances in the chapters of former pugilists, and when they do, they are often born out of tragedy.