{"id":137870,"date":"2015-04-15T04:20:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=137870"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:36:43","slug":"leben-ive-grown-lot-since-tuf-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/leben-ive-grown-lot-since-tuf-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Leben: &#8216;I&#8217;ve Grown Up a Lot Since TUF 1&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/chris-leben-opens-new-tell-book\/chris-leben-wins-png-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-127226\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG.png\" alt=\"Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize until the end of the show that I had a lot of issues. I didn&#8217;t realize that people didn&#8217;t wake up and drink every day. I mean, I had been living in my own world. I didn&#8217;t realize that I was so different than every body else. Definitely looking back it&#8217;s eye-opening. I would just want to let him know that, &#8216;Hey man, I&#8217;ve grown up a lot since then.&#8217; I know that a lot of the stuff that happened on the show made me who I am today. So I wouldn&#8217;t take anything back. I wouldn&#8217;t change anything, because I truly believe everything happens for a reason.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chris Leben will go down as one of the most popular fighters to ever step foot in the octagon. His never-quit mentality brought the fans to their feet several times throughout his career&#8230; but he wasn&#8217;t always so popular.<\/p>\n<p>Leben&#8217;s behavior throughout the first season of The Ultimate Fighter is infamous and couldn&#8217;t have been more disastrous. 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