Blood, Booze and the UFC

(PRESS RELEASE) -- If you haven't heard, I have published my second book Memoirs of a Machine: Blood, Booze and the UFC. If you are a fan of MMA and the early days of the Underground, then this is the book for you. Not only do I have no mercy and am I brutally honest when telling this story, I have also included over 7 hours of actual footage, with the use of QR codes, so you won't even have to leave the page to view it. I didn't write this book to make a lot of money, in fact, I knew my whole life I was going to create something so amazing that everyone thought I was crazy. I wrote it with hope that it may help. If I help just one person, I have succeeded. And now is the time to show you the darkest underground of fighting and the future of Martial Arts. Included here are a couple recent reviews and a link to my Amazon to purchase either in paperback or Kindle. I mean, unless YOU heard it sucks, I would appreciate the support and have an awesome day.

I found Memoirs of a Machine to be a highly entertaining novel on many levels which is saying something since having read two earlier drafts of the screenplay, I was already familiar with a lot of what transpires. The piece is touching, morbidly violent and laugh out loud funny (I was literally crying in a few spots.) Lober's writing is quite good. His remembrances of the various fights are vivid and captivating. His insights at times are also unsually articulate and enlightening, not just about human nature in general but what transpires in the mind of a fighter specifically. He adequately sets the stage for the time period and the Huntington Beach fight scene culture- Its eclectic, unique and pinpoints a very specific moment in history. All good stuff. -Ben Shahrabi

A criminally unheralded pioneer of MMA, John Lober has released his memoirs, landing like an overhand right to the reader’s teeth. A pivotal player in the California pre-MMA days, Lober bridged the stylistic gap of early karate-based combat sports, added his barbaric mentality to a sport with no rules, and became a fixture in the NHB world on the international circuit. Mixing Jeet Kune Do and BJJ in 1995, he was cutting edge in the fight world and thrived in an environment of caged violence few found true success in.

The book shows some of the legendary shows, such as IFC and Pancrase, through the eyes of a fighter in the sketchy world of NHB, pre-commission fighting. No time limits, no fouls and the mafia holding your paycheck made for once-in-a-lifetime situations where cheating was just another part of the sport, where you were lucky to get out of the cage in one piece and collect your pay for the night.

While the book details the underbelly of the fledgling sport, it’s also an in-depth look at the man himself. If Lober was a maniac in the cage, his life outside was just as chaotic, documenting the myriad of arrests, street fights, drug deals and jail sentences that defined his younger self. This is a raw vision of life in Orange County filled with porn stars, motocross heroes, early MMA legends and the debauchery that glued them all together into a downward spiral. The stories of Lober’s life in the fight scene are horrific or hilarious, depending on one’s disposition, and detail the lengths early fighters had to go to if they wanted to pay the bills and follow their dreams.

From a martial standpoint, this book tells a story the majority of fans missed out on, as the sport came awkwardly into the modern age on the back of unregulated insanity; the tournaments of old conducted with opponents having no prior knowledge of each other and given every weapon in a martial artist’s arsenal to dispose of their adversary. In an age of tapology, youtube, and cherry picking opponents, this is a slap of reality in the face of modern fight preparation, harkening to an age where men were men, with Lober standing among the best of those cross-over battlers.

Much like the early UFC, this book is “As real as it gets” and works as a grimy window into the sports bloody and brutal roots, written by a man the wears the scars and paid the price for his fame. -Mike Hammersmith, mass-mma.com

Order on Paperback and Kindle at Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Machine-Inside-Cagefighter-Blood/dp/1502334097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419611053&sr=8-1&keywords=john+lober

Thanks and have a happy holidays and a wonderful new year,

John MACHINE Lober