By D’Arcy Maine | Jul 20, 2018
espnW.com
Hannibal Buress had never heard of Invicta FC before purchasing tickets for a championship fight series in January 2017. The actor-comedian had recently become a fan of UFC, and he just wanted to watch as much MMA as possible. So when he found an online advertisement for a fight in Kansas City, he booked a flight and flew to Missouri without giving it much thought.
“I really just wanted to watch some people fight,” he said by phone last month. “I immediately noticed how intimate the venue was, it probably held about a thousand people. You could hear everything. I’d been to a bunch of UFC events, and those are in goddamn basketball arenas, so this was just different.”
It was love at first fight.
“I loved the grittiness of [Invicta],” Buress said. “I was amazed because so many of the fighters from the earlier part of the card came out and watched the rest after their fights and took pictures with fans. You just don’t see that anywhere else.”…Read more