It was December of 2017, and Rick Lee was pacing in front of AKA, waiting for Khabib. The UFC Embedded producer had a lot on his mind. His family, for one. No one wants to be away from their family during the holidays. His work for UFC 219, where Nurmagomedov would go on to defeat Edson Barboza by unanimous decision, was immediate and pressing. But what weighed most heavily on the filmmaker’s mind was his passion project, Devour. Financing for the independent film had fallen through at the eleventh hour, and he now looked into a void where once there was a dream.