I didn't know if ex-UFC world champion Jens "Little Evil" Pulver would remember me as well as I remember him. Memory is short when you're at the top, long when you're at the bottom, and I was at a low point when I co-produced the documentary film, "Jens Pulver: Driven" in 2010. At the time, Pulver was training to reclaim his championship belt, and I felt like just another guy in his periphery with a notepad or camera, traipsing after sound bites.
Eight years later, after surviving a divorce, taking financial hits, getting sober by doing two-a-days in a cinderblock gym—I'm talking about myself, here, not Pulver—I get him on the phone and he reminds me that all memory, whether we won or lost, is colored by the hits we took along the way, and by the people who recognized that we'd been hit and stood by us anyway.
Which is to say that Jens Pulver does remember me, he says, and I should not have been surprised. I saw Pulver get hit, and Pulver saw me see him, and this is how it...
Source: Built to Last: UFC Legend Jens Pulver Wants to Go the Distance
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