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A Cemetery Life: Richard Abraham and the Power of “Here Lies An Unknown Soldier”

By Frank Forza Curreri Richard Abraham, who faces Ky Hollenbeck in the Lion Fight 24 main event Friday night, has been hailed for his remarkable toughness. A probing into the 29-year-old Chicagoan’s upbringing – a prison guard father and a breast cancer-battling mother – might explain the source of his fortitude. I spoke with “Maximus”…

Why Sleep is So Vital for Peak Performance

As my friend Company Egg founder Sean Rigo recently reminded me, sleep is the new status symbol for the elite (with media mogul Arianna Huffington really popularizing and carry the flag for the Get-More-Sleep cause). Quality sleep is essential for high performers and peak performance. It’s when the body best replenishes its Cosmic Energy, when…

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CageFighting is A Cakewalk Compared to Walking on 400-foot-high Beams

Cagefighting is a cakewalk compared to UFC fighter David Branch’s previous job – as an iron worker walking on beams 30-stories high atop the New York skyline. Branch, who grew up in the same Brownsville, NY, neighborhood that produced “Iron” Mike Tyson, once witnessed an iron worker colleague – working on a beam 24-stories high…