In this Bloody Elbow exclusive, UFC middleweight Josh Samman shares the opening pages of his new memoir "The Housekeeper: Love, Death, and Prizefighting." The book is available free on Kindle for 24 hours.
"I just want to scream, ‘Hello! My God, it's been so long. Never dreamed you'd return.’ Now here you are, and here I am."
-Eddie Vedder
"Crack!"
I woke from my daydream by the sound of a cue ball breaking a rack on the table behind me. It wasn’t so much of a daydream as it was an evening one, awake but my mind somewhere other than Pockets, the shitty pool hall we were in.