SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
February - 2016
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loud as possible in the car.
When I’m doing stuff with
my son there’s usually mu-
sic in the background. Hell
I’ve got music playing right
now because working in
silence doesn’t work. It’s
more than just the day to
day grind, though, that is
like this. Think about the
bigmoments that had their
own soundtrack. Your
wedding, first dance, hol-
idays, first date, and the
list goes on. I can’t remem-
ber the name of the doc-
tor that delivered my son
but I do remember what
was on the radio in the
room when they handed
him to me. The song was
“Cum on Feel the Noize” I
never liked that song until
that moment. There’s just
something in me, in all of
us I think, that craves mu-
sic because we know that
it is like the melted cheese
of the universe – it makes
almost everything better.
I know some of you
reading this will know the
feeling, but for those who
haven’t experienced it
take a minute to imagine
this: you’re walking out
of a back stage area to-
ward a fight you’ve been
training for tirelessly for
weeks, right before your
feet hit the aisle your walk
out track starts and you
can feel the electricity in
the air. The crowd is get-
ting amped off the same
song that gives you that fi-
nal push into “the zone”.
For that moment everyone
is connected. Now imag-
ine that without music, or
even worse imagine walk-
ing out to Nickleback.
The hunger for music
may be damn near univer-
sal but taste is definitely
not; what gets me amped
might not have the same
effect on someone else.
For instance, most every-
one older than you thinks
your music sucks unless of
course you listen to older
music, in that case every-
one younger than you
thinks your music sucks.
Personally I dig some older
Bloodbath or even a little
Tech N9ne to get me go-
ing and people of all ages
tell me my music sucks. It
doesn’t matter what any-
one else thinks about your
taste as long as it hits you
in the heart and makes you
feel something. Luckily
for fighters and fans alike
there are artists out there
who specialize in getting
into peoples’ heads and
taking the pieces of what
makes them tick and turn-
ing it into music. Look at
Rocktagon
Worldwide
artist Mikey Rukus for ex-
ample. This guy has cre-
ated literally hundreds of
custom walk out tracks for
fighters at all levels. Mikey
has gone so far as to incor-
porate fighters’ training
mantras or other personal
things that help drive them
and add them to the tracks
to make them that much
more personal and pow-
erful. Details like this are
what transform that short
walk down the ramp into
an epic moment where ev-
eryone is riding that same
electric wave. A wave that
wouldn’t even be a ripple
if a fighter walked out in
silence (or to Nickleback)
I guess what I’m try-
ing to say here is that un-
like so many companies
out there, Rocktagon isn’t
one dimensional. We are
music. We are combat
sports. We are here to stay
so just enjoy the ride.
