Even one of the most-driven athletes in combat sports sometimes needs a push. So any time Aaron Pico needs a little motivation, he pulls up one specific video.

“When I have like 10 minutes left on the treadmill and I’m hurting, I put it on and it goes by so fast,” Pico said in April.

Yet this isn’t any old “Baba O’Riley” by The Who. This is the UFC’s brilliant reimagining of one of the all-time rock anthems played before the main card of their live events, adding fighter walkouts and highlights and the real-time voices of commentators like Mike Goldberg, Joe Rogan and Jon Anik to the chords of Pete Townsend, the wails of Roger Daltrey and the frenetic violin crescendo of Dave Arbus.

For years, it has been the go-to fuel for Pico’s singular ambition – to go from world-class wrestler to t

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