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blood-soaked days and nights, the Marines emerged victorious. Some of the 42 men under Stann’s command were wounded, but all survived. “I got that Silver Star for being lucky,” he says. “It was strictly due to the discipline and courage of the Marines that I was fortunate enough to lead. It’s like when an MVP gets an award, it was really the guys around him making him look good.”
BORN FIGHTER Since his 2006 WEC debut, Stann has improved exponentially, winning the WEC middleweight title in 2008, and he’s now a Top-10 contender in the UFC. After knocking out Santiago, he believes he’s as close as two wins away from a title shot. Following UFC 130, he’s gone back to his regular training schedule under the tutelage of world-class MMA coaches Mike Winkeljohn and Greg Jackson. His warrior mentality, however, is something more visceral—a quality that can’t be cultivated in a gym. By all accounts, Stann was born that way, his instincts first emerging when he was a 9-year-old boy growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Most of the brawls from back then have faded from memory, but not his first. “It wasn’t over anything in particular,” he says, “just older kids looking for trouble. I was a big kid and I was athletic, but I had never been in a real good knock-down, drag-out fight. I remember he hit me with three punches right in a row, bloodied my nose, and knocked me down. I never felt
"I WANT TO BE CHAMPION. I WANT TO PROVE EVERY- BODY WRONG WHO SAID I COULDN'T DO IT. "
so embarrassed and defeated in my life, and I never wanted to feel that again.” Stann was at least four years younger than the aggressor, but he didn’t see the age and size difference as an excuse. That humiliation instilled a “settle this like men” bravado that has informed the biggest decisions of his life—including his choice of the Marines over the Navy after graduating. He didn’t want to be on a ship. He wanted to be out in the desert with a rifle in his hands, face-to-face with the enemy.
Stann lands a
textbook leg kick on Jorge Santiago at UFC 130.
ULTIMATE GOALS Stann took up kung fu after that early lesson, but the beatings kept coming, so he soon deemed traditional martial arts "impractical". Watching the early UFC gave him new ideas about how he should be training, with jiu-jitsu, boxing, and wrestling at the centre of his new universe. The movie Bloodsport, ironically enough, played a role, too. “I used to watch it so often that I actually had to buy it twice because I wore the VHS tape out,” Stann says, laughing. The picture is a bit ridiculous: a young kid gets bullied and takes refuge in a Hollywood fantasy, vowing to live it out. But no one’s laughing now. Stann has authoritatively shut the mouth of every critic he’s ever run across in his career. There is, however, one last profes- sional hurdle, and he’s hell-bent on clearing it. “I want to be champion,” he says. “I want to prove everybody wrong who said I couldn’t do it, everybody who dubbed me as just a military guy with a story who doesn’t really belong fighting at this level. Regardless of your background, if you’re willing to put in the work, you can achieve anything.” M&F
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