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The Rukus follows Brandon "The Rukus" Thatch, a Denver-based mixed martial artist, as he chases his lifelong dream of fighting in the UFC. Shot inside the gyms, locker rooms, and cages of the self-proclaimed "most violent sport in the world," the documentary offers an unflinching, insider's look at the sacrifice, family legacy, and brutal reality behind one fighter's pursuit of the sport's biggest stage.
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00:00Do you think Mixed Martial Arts is a violence sport?
00:06I don't ever want to maim somebody.
00:09Highly touted Brandon Fatsch.
00:12Is he the future?
00:14He might just be.
00:15When you say, what is violence, it doesn't make me think of MMA.
00:18But I may be a little callous to that, you know?
00:20I grew up in the sport.
00:21Hello, Brandon.
00:22Hello, man.
00:25I wanted to be a doctor.
00:26I bought him all those little lab thingies and trying to get him interested in it,
00:30and he wasn't going for it.
00:32Brandon was always a fighter.
00:36He was trying to tell me that from day one.
00:39He was trained since he could walk.
00:41He's a trained warrior.
00:42I've done well in my fights.
00:44I've had two 15-second knockouts.
00:47Like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
00:54So when he made it to the UFC, I was really, really proud of him,
00:58because he reached the pinnacle.
00:599-1 with an 8-fight winning streak.
01:02If you could be a person that says,
01:04I want to take this piece of clay and mold it into me,
01:07and I want it to be everything that I am,
01:09and that's what happened.
01:14I don't know what it means to be a man.
01:16That one's hard.
01:17I need to figure out how I feel about some of these things.
01:20Is the sport violent?
01:21Yeah, it's violent,
01:21because we punch each other in the face, right?
01:23But it's beautiful.
01:24It's not violence.
01:25It's two warriors trading strategies and maneuvers.
01:29It's violent.
01:31Now that I've fought in the UFC,
01:33there's going to be more attention on me.
01:35It's scary as hell.
01:36It's a huge responsibility.
01:41A huge piece of me is fighting.
01:43I don't know what I would be able to do without fighting.
01:45I would panic.
01:49It's not a fear of getting hurt.
01:52I get hurt every day.
01:55I'm scared of the end result when I lose.
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