Monte Cox - Extreme Challenge 5, 20 and 21 #DEEPDIVE (ep. 47)

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Legendary Manager/Promoter Monte Cox stopped by the #LOP again to talk about some of the early Extreme Challenge events that he ran. Our intention was to do a handful of shows here but after more than two hours we had covered just three events -

Extreme Challenge 5 - APR 18, 1997, Waterloo, Iowa
Extreme Challenge 20 - AUG 22, 1998 Davenport, Iowa
Extreme Challenge 21 - OCT 17, 1998, Hayward, Wisconsin

Chapter Breakdowns -
0:00- Mike and Miguel intro
3:05- Monte joins
6:40- 4/18/97, Extreme Challenge 5
8:00- Two four man tournament brackets
10:40- Shonie Carter and Jesse Jones
15:58- Shonie Carter vs Laverne Clark flashback at Extreme Challenge 3
17:50- Andy Saunders fallout
20:25- Extreme Challenge rules and evolution of rules
23:00- Mark Hansen
25:25- Tournament referee
26:10- Monte's cage
30:28- Dave Menne vs Laverne Clark
33:44- "Hollywood" Shonie Carter vs Dave Menne
40:00- Becoming a manager
43:00- Second tournament
46:33- Dave Strasser vs Jesse Jones tournament final
47:49- Bob Schirmer and Pat Miletich "conversation" with Jeremy Horn joining "conversation"
49:47- Schirmer's 0-2 weekend
50:55- Focusing on just 3 shows
52:00- Fighting twice in one or two days
53:45- Brian Dunn vs Travis Fulton
55:03- Extreme Challenge 20, Pat Miletich vs Dan Severn
1:02:15- Events flowing and being run properly
1:03:28- Monte becoming timekeeper at his own shows
1:04:18- Dave Menne vs Shonie Carter 2, historical significance
1:07:30- Multiple draws on Extreme Challenge with no judges
1:08:20- Noe Hernandez
1:09:48- Travis Fulton cauliflower ear
1:10:37- Audience education during Dave Menne and Shonie Carter 2
1:12:51- Fulton and Horn draining ears following HOOKnSHOOT week prior to Extreme Challenge 20
1:13:50- Jim Axel and Brian Dunn challenging the Roberts brothers
1:17:23- Extreme Challenge 21, 8-man tournament opening round matches
1:20:00- Shannon "the Cannon" Ritch compared to Jeremy Horn
1:21:28- Semifinal matches, Dave Menne vs Matt Hughes
1:25:25- Dennis Hallman vs Shannon Ritch
1:27:15- Matt Hume's fighters beating Monte Cox's fighters
1:28:48- Dennis Hallman's cocky attitude
1:30:28- Matt Hume's deceiving fight record
1:31:10- Rich Franklin training with Matt Hume
1:37:40- Aaron Riley and Matt Hume
1:39:15- Jens Pulver and Spencer Fisher tapping out to Matt Hume's amateur fighter named Demetrius Johnson
1:44:02- Hughes twins
1:46:25- Sean Sherk
1:50:49- Monte Cox rule
1:54:40- Managing Sherk to UFC lightweight championship
1:57:30- Sherk steroid case
2:00:40- Armando Garcia from California State Athletic Commission
2:07:30- Monte's relationship with Dana White after Jens Pulver left the UFC with the belt
2:08:43- Chael Sonnen
2:12:25- Chad Mason
2:14:26- Mike and Miguel wrap up

Photo Credits: Keith D. Mills, Author of "A Declaration of the Independents." A true photographic documentation of the early NHB and MMA years from a man who was there.

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