Vitor Belfort: Newfound faith has led Belfort into a career renaissance -- and to some controversial political ideas. Los Angeles Times contributor Sacha Feinman spends a week inside Belfort’s camp to witness “The Phenom’s” latest renovation. 

Rorion Gracie: 20 years ago, Playboy sent writer Pat Jordan to interview a Brazilian immigrant who claimed his family’s art made them the toughest in the world. Adman Art Davie read the piece and conspired with Gracie to create a new combat sport: the rest is Ultimate Fighting history. Now Jordan returns to visit Gracie’s new multimillion-dollar Academy to pick up where they left off—and finds a man who no longer speaks to his brothers, dissuades his own sons from carrying the family name into the ring, and passed on his father’s funeral. A Real Fighter portrait of a martial arts pioneer bearing the burden of a legendary last name.