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Cody Garbrandt

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Cody Garbrandt is a American mixed martial artist from Uhrichsville, Ohio, United States. He currently competes as a Bantamweight in the UFC.

## Background

Garbrandt was born and raised in Uhrichsville, Ohio, on July 7, 1991, mostly by his mother Jessica. Cody is ten months younger than his brother Zach, who he grew up constantly fighting. Garbrandt has claimed in several interviews that his drug addict father was never in the picture, spending most of his life in prison. Garbrandt's parents separated after a domestic abuse incident when Cody was one year old. Eventually, Cody was adopted by his mother's now ex-husband at the age of 10.

At the ages of four and five, Cody and Zach, respectively, had already been dabbling into boxing with their uncle Robert Meese who was an Olympic alternate in the sport. However, their mother was concerned about the boys becoming punch-drunk thus forbidding boxing and directing them towards wrestling.

At Claymont High School, Garbrandt competed in wrestling and football, winning a state championship as a freshman in 2007, by defeating Zach Neibert, 4-2, and was a runner-up in 2008. In football, Garbrandt won All-State honors as a linebacker during his junior season. After failing to claim the second state championship, Garbrandt stopped wrestling and convinced his mother to let him start training boxing seriously. Over about six years, Garbrandt compiled a 32-0 record as an amateur boxer.

Despite not competing in wrestling during his final two years of high school, Garbrandt attended the national tournament as a senior and placed fifth, receiving All-American honors and interest from several NCAA Division I schools, such as PSU and Rutgers. However, Garbrandt ended up at Newberry College, a Division II school, before dropping out for academic and personal reasons. After dropping out, Garbrandt sold weed, worked as a bouncer, and eventually completed coal miner training in order to work in the field familiar to his family. However, he decided to commit completely to his amateur MMA career, which was afoot after helping several MMA camps with wrestling.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the night (Two times)  vs. Frankie Saenz & Iuri Alcântara
* Performance of the Night KO (One time)  vs. Raphael Assunção

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Anthony Pettis

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Anthony Pettis is a American mixed martial artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. He currently competes as a Featherweight, Lightweight & Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

Pettis was born on January 27, 1987, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Annette (née Garcia) and Eugene Pettis Jr. He grew up in the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, along with his older brother, Reynaldo Pettis and younger brother, Sergio Pettis, who fights in the flyweight division. Pettis is of Puerto Rican and Mexican ancestry. His grandfather, Eugenio Pérez, Anglicized the family name from Pérez to Pettis to avoid discrimination. Pettis attended Dominican High School.

He started training taekwondo and boxing at the age of 5. In college he also started wrestling. When he went to train mixed martial arts at Roufusport at the age of 18, he had already a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo. He later trained in capoeira.

On November 12, 2003, Pettis' father was stabbed to death by a robber at a friend's house.

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Featherweight championship (One time)
* Fight of the night (One time)  vs. Zabit Magomedsharipov
* Performance of the night (KO) (One time)  vs. Brian Ortega
* Performance of the Night SUB (Two times)  vs. Clay Guida & Josh Emmett

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 2
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Ricardo Lamas

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Ricardo Lamas is a American mixed martial artist from Chicago, Illinois, United States. He currently competes as a Featherweight in the UFC.

## Background

Lamas' father is Cuban and his mother is Mexican. The flags of these two countries are often displayed on his clothing during his fights. His father was the leader of a Cuban resistance movement under Castro regime, eventually managing to hide in the Brazilian embassy in Cuba before escaping to the United States. Ricardo is the youngest of six brothers. He went to Hinsdale Central High School in Hinsdale, Illinois.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Performance of the night SUB (One time)  vs. Makwan Amirkhani

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 2
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Michael Chiesa

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Michael Chiesa is a American mixed martial artist from Aurora, Colorado, U.S. He currently competes as a Lightweight & Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

Chiesa was born on December 7, 1987, in Aurora, Colorado. Chiesa was a standout wrestler at Shadle Park High School.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (Two times)  vs. Nate Diaz & Justin Gaethje

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 5
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Maryna Moroz

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Maryna Moroz is a Ukrainian mixed martial artist from Vilnohirsk, Ukraine. She currently competes as a Strawweight & Flyweight in the UFC.

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Women's Strawweight championship (One time)
* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Jessica Penne

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 6
 **Draws** | 0
Nate Diaz

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Nate Diaz is a American mixed martial artist from Stockton, California, U.S.. He currently competes as a Lightweight & Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

Diaz was born and raised in Stockton, California with his brother Nick Diaz and he went to Tokay High School. At the age of 11, he began training in martial arts with his brother, Nick.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Michael Chiesa

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Omari Akhmedov

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Omari Akhmedov is a Russian mixed martial artist from Kizlyar, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He currently competes as a Welterweight & Middleweight in the UFC.

## Background

Akhmedov was born on October 12, 1987 in the town of Kizlyar in modern-day Dagestan, Russia, and is a devout Sunni Muslim. Like many children in Dagestan, Akhmedov engaged in freestyle wrestling from a young age and would go on to hold an accomplished career in the sport before transitioning to MMA. Before his career in MMA, Akhmedov also had accomplished careers in combat sambo, as well as Russian hand-to-hand combat and Russian pankration.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Uriah Hall
* Performance of the night Sub (One time)  vs. Jared Cannonier

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 5
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Deiveson Figueiredo

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Deiveson Figueiredo is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Soure, Para, Brazil. He currently competes as a Flyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Figueiredo was born in Soure, Para, Brazil, a small city on the isle of Marajó where buffaloes roam freely. His father was a buffalo herder who practiced luta marajoara, a local folk wrestling style. Deiveson has a younger sister and a brother – Francisco – who also is a professional mixed martial artist signed with the UFC. He was a cowboy, working with his father at an animal farm until he was thirteen years old. Around the age of nine, he followed his father's footsteps and began wrestling. He moved to Belem to attend high school and started training in capoeira. He started training MMA after he met Iuri Marajo at the age of sixteen.

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Flyweight championship (One time)
* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Brandon Moreno

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 1
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Chan Sung Jung

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Chan Sung Jung is a South Korean mixed martial artist from Pohang, South Korea. He currently competes as a Featherweight in the UFC.

## Background

Born in Pohang, South Korea in 1987, Jung moved to Namyangju, a satellite city of Seoul when he was in his mid-teens. Due to his slight stature and his rural origins, he was bullied constantly by his classmates and got into many fights as a result. When his aunt could no longer stand to see Jung's predicament, she took him to a nearby Hapkido gym when he was around 14 years old. Jung trained in kickboxing until his junior year of high school. He graduated from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology. Later he also began training in judo and Brazilian jiu jitsu.

At the age of 18, Jung joined South Korean Navy and started training Taekwondo. In June 2007, he won a sambo tournament arranged by the Korean Sambo Association, and in December of the same year, he won the Lightweight division of the Pancrase Korea Neo-Blood Tournament after defeating fellow South Koreans Yoo In Seok and Lee Hyung Geol. At age of 20, Jung began mixed martial arts and made his professional debut soon after. In May 2008, he participated in and won KOREA-FC's 8-man MMA tournament in the 65 kg division. Jung was also a participant in a show called Street Fighter in 2007 which aired on South Korean cable television. He participated in the 70 kg tournament and won. The tournament was stand-up only (similar to K-1 but not in a ring).

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Featherweight championship (One time)
* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Cub Swanson
* Performance of the night (SUB) (One time)  vs. Dustin Poirier

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 3
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Andrei Arlovski

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Andrei Arlovski is a Belarusian-American mixed martial artist from Babruysk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union. He currently competes as a Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Arlovski was born in Babruisk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus). When he was younger, bullies often picked on him and beat him up. In 1994, when he was 14 years old, he had finally had enough and started lifting weights to put on muscle and, he hoped, to help him deal with these bullies. Arlovski only took up martial arts at the age of 16 in sports such as Sambo, Judo and Kickboxing.

Enrolling at the police academy in Minsk, Arlovski combined his interest in a career in law enforcement with his growing martial arts participation by taking up the required police defense course in Sambo and quickly showed himself to be a highly competent Sambo opponent. In 1999, Arlovski won the European Youth Sambo Championship and the World Youth Championship. Not long after, Arlovski became the first Master of Sports and then International Master of Sports. He took a silver medal at the Sambo World Cup and another silver medal at the World Sambo Championship.

Arlovski began taking a greater interest in other martial arts, studying kickboxing and developing his striking skills to complement his Sambo-based grappling abilities.

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Gian Villante

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Gian Villante is a American mixed martial artist from Wantagh, New York, U.S.. He currently competes as a Light Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Villante attended MacArthur High School (Levittown, New York) and was part of the Class of 2003. During his junior year, he placed third in the New York State Wrestling Championships. He followed this up his senior year by winning the New York State Championship at the 215-pound weight class. Villante also earned all-American honors following a 5th-place finish in the 215 lbs weight class at the 2003 NHSCA senior national wrestling tournament. Villante was equally accomplished in football, in which he received the 2002 Thorpe Award winner as the top football player in Nassau County, also the Bill Piner Award as the top linebacker in Nassau County and was named to the High School Heisman All-Star team. Villante drew interest from major Division I schools, such as Penn State and Michigan State. Villante chose to stay home and committed to Hofstra University. Villante attended Hofstra University from 2003 to 2007 where he continued his highly successful football and wrestling careers. Villante started his first game against Marshall University, as a true freshman, at middle linebacker. Gian kept his starting role the rest of his first year. The following season Villante was named a 2004 1st Team Defensive I-AA All-American by The Sports Network. He was regarded as a potential NFL linebacker prospect. The New York Giants, New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts, and Philadelphia Eagles all expressed interest in Villante. Villante wrestled for Hofstra where he became close with NCAA All-American wrestler and future UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman.

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
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Fight night 17

**Fight night 17:** is the 66th mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event will take place on 15th June 2021 at UFC Apex, Las Vegas, NV, USA

## Event

This event will feature eleven sanctioned mixed martial arts bouts. It is the first UFC show and will feature Six main card bouts, and five preliminary bouts. All fights will consist of three five-minute rounds, except for the championship and main event fights, which consists of five five-minute rounds.

## Bonus awards

* **Fight of the Night:** Jury v Murphy
* **Performance of the night KO:** Calderwood
* **Performance of the night Sub:** Jung
Erick Silva

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Erick Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil. He currently competes as a Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

Silva comes from Vila Velha, Brazil and was an X-Gym training partner for the likes of Anderson Silva, Rafael Feijao and Jacare Souza.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Darren Till

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Alex Gonzalez

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Alex Gonzalez is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Brasilia, Brazil. He currently competes as a Heavyweight in the WFA.

## WFA career

Gonzalez lost his first fight by KO against Can Martinez at WFA 3

Gonzalez won his 2nd fight by KO against Chipo Kongo at WFA 6

Gonzalez lost his 3rd fight by KO against Jose Andrade at WFA 8

Gonzalez lost his 4th fight by Decision (Unanimous) against Jeff Kelly at WFA 11

Gonzalez lost his 5th fight by KO against David Jury at WFA 13

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Dustin Poirier

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Dustin Poirier is a American mixed martial artist from Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. He currently competes as a Featherweight & Lightweight in the UFC.

## Background

Poirier was born on January 19, 1989, in Lafayette, Louisiana, and is of Acadian French descent, specifically Cajun heritage. He attended Northside High School for a short time, as he dropped out in the ninth grade because of repeatedly getting into trouble and street fights.

Poirier still spends most of his time in Lafayette with his wife Jolie and their daughter, but trains at American Top Team in South Florida, where he relocates before fights.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov
* Performance of the night (Sub) (One time)  vs. Diego Sanchez

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 1
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Jennifer Maia

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Jennifer Maia is a American mixed martial artist from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. She currently competes as a Flyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Playing soccer since childhood, Maia transitioned to muay thai at the age of 15. She won several national titles in the discipline before turning to boxing and then mixed martial arts.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the night (Two times)  vs. Charlotte Phillips & Alexa Grasso

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Nik Lentz

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Nik Lentz is a American mixed martial artist from El Paso, Texas, United States. He currently competes as a Lightweight in the UFC.

## Background

Lentz was born in El Paso, Texas but grew up in Twin Cities area of Minnesota, attending Bloomington Jefferson High School. In high school he wrestled, and was a state champion in Minnesota. After graduating in 2003, he was awarded a scholarship to wrestle for the University of Minnesota. In 2005, he started training in MMA. He trained in Chinese martial arts with Luis Quiroz, switched to Team Bison, and then switched to Minnesota Martial Arts Academy alongside former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, former UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk, and former Strikeforce and UFC middleweight Paul Bradley.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Performance of the night (Sub) (One time)  vs. Michael Chandler

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 1
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Arnold Allen

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Arnold Allen is a English mixed martial artist from Ipswich, England, United Kingdom. He currently competes as a Featherweight in the UFC.

## Background

Born and raised in Suffolk, Allen began training in mixed martial arts as a teenager and took part in several amateur fights before turning professional in 2012.

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Fight night 25

**Fight night 25:** is the 98th mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event will take place on 17th August 2021 at UFC Apex, Las Vegas, NV, USA

## Event

This event will feature eleven sanctioned mixed martial arts bouts. It is the first UFC show and will feature Six main card bouts, and five preliminary bouts. All fights will consist of three five-minute rounds, except for the championship and main event fights, which consists of five five-minute rounds.

## Bonus awards

* **Fight of the Night:**
* **Performance of the night KO:**
* **Performance of the night Sub:**
List of UFC Women fighters/Straw

The following is a list of current UFC Women fighters and active members of the roster.

Any fighters who have been removed from the roster, retired, etc., will be listed in a separate section at the bottom.

* Ranking's as of 12th December 2021
* Results as of 12th December 2021

These fighters can fight in this division but last fight is in another division
Paulo Costa

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Paulo Costa is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He currently competes as a Middleweight in the UFC.

## Background

Costa, the son of odd-jobber Carlos Roberto and Maria Augusta, was born in 1991. He has an older brother, Carlos Costa, who is a former mixed martial artist and one of Paulo's coaches. Paulo grew up in Contagem playing soccer and eventually picking up Muay Thai at the age of nine in order to learn discipline and avoid street fights he was constantly getting into. As a teenager, Paulo joined a jiu-jitsu gym with his brother only to quit the sport after their father died of throat cancer when Paulo was 17. A couple of years later, Costa returned to jiu-jitsu and started competing under the tutelage of his brother who was already a purple belt at the time.

In order to help his mother with bills, Costa worked in real estate and as an IT teacher teaching Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Performance of the Night KO (Three times)  vs. Sam Alvey & Krzysztof Jotko & Luke Rockhold

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Danny Ige

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Danny Ige is a American mixed martial artist from Haleiwa, Hawaii, United States. He currently competes as a Featherweight in the UFC.

## Background

A professional since 2014, he has also competed for the Legacy Fighting Championship, Pancrase, the RFA, and Titan FC

Ige and his wife Savannah have a son, Bam (born 2021)

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
List of UFC champions/Men's

This is a list of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions in each weight division.

UFC has Eight men weight classes: Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight, Welterweight, Lightweights, Featherweights, Bantamweights and Flyweight.

## Championship history

### **Lightweight Championship**

*146 to 155 lb (66 to 70 kg)*

 2. def. Alexander Hernandez at UFC 6 on 22nd Mar 2021
Fight night 18

**Fight night 18:** is the 70th mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event will take place on 22nd June 2021 at UFC Apex, Las Vegas, NV, USA

## Event

This event will feature eleven sanctioned mixed martial arts bouts. It is the first UFC show and will feature Six main card bouts, and five preliminary bouts. All fights will consist of three five-minute rounds, except for the championship and main event fights, which consists of five five-minute rounds.

## Bonus awards

* **Fight of the Night:** Gaethje v Chiesa
* **Performance of the night KO:** Gaethje
* **Performance of the night Sub:** Jones
Carlos Condit

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Carlos Condit is a American mixed martial artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.. He currently competes as a Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

Carlos Joseph Condit was born on April 26, 1984, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is of Austrian, German, Native American, and Mexican descent. Condit's father, Brian, was the Chief of Staff for former New Mexico governor and Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson. Condit attended Cibola High School on Albuquerque's West Side. He began wrestling at the age of nine and continued throughout high school, and started training in Gaidojutsu under Greg Jackson at fifteen.

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 1
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Amanda Nunes

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Amanda Nunes is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Pojuca, Bahia, Brazil. She currently competes as a Bantamweight in the UFC.

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Women's Bantamweight championship (One time)
* Performance of the night KO (One time)  vs. Julianna Peña

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Randa Markos

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Randa Markos is a Canadian mixed martial artist from Baghdad, Iraq. She currently competes as a Strawweight in the UFC.

## Background

Markos was born in Iraq in 1985. She is ethnically Assyrian. She and her parents are of Chaldean Catholic religious background. At the age of three, she and her family were held at gunpoint and imprisoned during the Iran-Iraq War for trying to escape Iraq. They successfully escaped and boarded a plane to Ontario, Canada that same year.

Markos earned her Pharmacy Assistant Diploma at TriOS College. She then worked as a pharmacy technician at a pharmacy in Windsor.

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 1
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Kaern Wilson

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Kaern Wilson is a American mixed martial artist from Orlando, FL, USA. He currently competes as a Flyweight in the UFC.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the night (One time)  vs. Jussier Formiga

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Jeffery Calderwood

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Jeffery Calderwood is a American mixed martial artist from Memphis, TN, USA. He currently competes as a Flyweight in the UFC.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Malcolm Gordon

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Jared Cannonier

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Jared Cannonier is a American mixed martial artist from Dallas, Texas, United States. He currently competes as a Middleweight & Light Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Cannonier began his amateur mixed martial arts career in early 2011, winning his first two fights by knockout. In June 2011, he made his professional MMA debut in Alaska. He fought sporadically over the next five years

## Championships and accomplishments

* Performance of the Night KO (One time)  vs. Paulo Costa

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 0
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Johnny Walker

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Johnny Walker is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He currently competes as a Light Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Walker made his professional MMA debut in December 2013. Over the next four years, he fought in his native Brazil and earned a record of 10 wins against 3 losses with all of his wins coming via stoppages.

Walker ended up receiving an offer from a Scottish businessman to train there and moved to that country. However, after a month he received no pay and left. In early 2018, Walker made the move to England where he fought for various promotions and added 3 more wins

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 **By submission** | 0
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Misha Cirkunov

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Misha Cirkunov is a Latvian-Canadian mixed martial artist from Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union. He currently competes as a Middleweight in the UFC.

## Background

Son of Oleg and Olga, Misha Cirkunov was born in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Latvia) in 1987. In his childhood Cirkunov was active in various sports like swimming, basketball, judo and karate. Growing up, Cirkunov dabbled into dubious circles which prompted the family to emigrate to Toronto, Canada, when he was 13. With no skills in English, Cirkunov struggled in school but continued training judo and also picked up wrestling.

Cirkunov won junior nationals in judo in 2003, Greco-Roman wrestling national championship in 2005 and national championships in freestyle wrestling in 2005 and 2006. After winning the latter championship, Cirkunov became a Canadian citizen. After graduating from high school Cirkunov found Brazilian jiu-jitsu, briefly relocating to Las Vegas to train but returned to Canada to open his own gym. After the unsuccessful venture as a gym owner, he started training at recently opened Xtreme Couture satellite gym in Etobicoke.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (Two time)  vs. Vitor Belfort & Glover Teixeira

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 3
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Fight night 29

**Fight night 29:** is the 114th mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event will take place on 5th October 2021 at UFC Apex, Las Vegas, NV, USA

## Event

This event will feature eleven sanctioned mixed martial arts bouts. It is the first UFC show and will feature Six main card bouts, and five preliminary bouts. All fights will consist of three five-minute rounds, except for the championship and main event fights, which consists of five five-minute rounds.

## Bonus awards

* **Fight of the Night:**
* **Performance of the night KO:**
* **Performance of the night Sub:**
Julianna Peña

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Julianna Peña is a American mixed martial artist from Spokane, Washington, U.S.. She currently competes as a Bantamweight in the UFC.

## Background

The youngest of four siblings, Julianna was born and raised in Spokane, Washington. Julianna graduated in 2007 from Mt. Spokane High School. She then attended Spokane Community College. In order to lose weight and channel aggression in her early adulthood, she enrolled to a cardio kickboxing class and subsequently transitioned to mixed martial arts.

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 **By submission** | 1
 **By decision** | 4
 **Draws** | 0
Georges St-Pierre

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Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial artist from Saint-Isidore, Québec, Canada. He currently competes as a Welterweight & Middleweight in the UFC.

## Background

St-Pierre, a French-speaking Quebecer, was born in Saint-Isidore, Quebec, to Roland and Pauline St-Pierre on May 19, 1981. St-Pierre had a difficult childhood, attending a school where others would steal his clothes and money. As a child he played hockey, skated and participated in several sports. He began learning Kyokushin Karate at age seven from his father and later from a Kyokushin Karate Master to defend himself against a school bully. He took up wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and boxing after his Karate teacher died when he was around 16 years old. St-Pierre attended high school at École Pierre-Bédard where he held the school record for number of chin-ups done. After graduation he enrolled in kinesiology studies at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. Before turning pro as a mixed martial artist, St-Pierre worked as a bouncer at a Montreal night club in the South Shore called Fuzzy Brossard and as a garbageman for six months to pay for his school fees. Already a 2nd dan Kyokushin karate black belt at age 12, his first professional fight was at age 20.

As a youth St-Pierre was inspired by Jean-Claude Van Damme, and described fighting him in the film Kickboxer: Vengeance as "a dream come true".

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Matt Brown
* Performance of the night (Sub) (Two times)  vs. Erick Silva & Nick Diaz

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 5
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Dong Hyun

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Dong Hyun is a Korean mixed martial artist from Seoul, South Korea. He currently competes as a Heavyweight in the WFA.

## WFA career

Hyun lost his first fight by KO against Darren Evans at WFA 1

Hyun lost his 2nd fight by KO against Lee Jackson at WFA 5

Hyun won his 3rd fight by KO against David Jury at WFA 7

Hyun won his 4th fight by Decision (Unanimous) against Ross Adams at WFA 10

Hyun lost his 5th fight by KO against Walter Weber at WFA 13

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Jiri Prochazka

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Jiri Prochazka is a Czech mixed martial artist from Hosteradice, Czech Republic. He currently competes as a Light Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Light Heavyweight championship (One time)
* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Nikita Andreyvich Krylov
* Performance of the night KO (One time)  vs. Daniel Cormier

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Jéssica Andrade

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Jéssica Andrade is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Umuarama, Paraná, Brazil. She currently competes as a Strawweight, Flyweight & Bantamweight in the UFC.

## Background

Andrade was born on September 25, 1991, in Umuarama, Paraná, Brazil, to farmer parents Julio and Neusa Andrade. Jéssica and her older brother Fernando worked at their parents' plantation fields throughout their childhood until the farm was municipalized, leading to prohibition of underage labour. At the age of 14, she started working at a fish & pay pond and later delivering medicine for a drug store. Andrade grew up playing soccer and futsal, aspiring to become a professional soccer player. She succeeded well and eventually got offered to play for a São Paulo club, but her parents forbade her from moving. During school, Andrade started training judo and shortly afterwards, in 2011, jiu-jitsu.

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Women's Strawweight championship (One time)
* Performance of the night KO (One time)  vs. Rose Namajunas

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 2
 **Draws** | 0
Alexander Gustafsson

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Alexander Gustafsson is a Swedish mixed martial artist from Arboga, Sweden. He currently competes as a Light Heavyweight & Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Gustafsson started training MMA in 2006, and before he trained in boxing which he started when he was around 10 years old. He won the national championship (youth-junior level) in 2003, at the age of 16. In 2008-2009 he made a quick return to boxing, winning some amateur tournaments in Sweden and defeating the Swedish heavyweight boxing champion in an amateur fight. He was set to compete in the national championship event the following year, 2010, for which he was a big favorite to win. However, his newly awakened boxing career ended when he signed with the UFC in September 2009.

He also competed in the martial arts form of shootfighting, before starting his professional MMA career, with a Shoot record of 5–1, with 4 wins by KO/TKO and 1 by decision, his only loss came by split decision against Mats Nilsson in the Kaisho Battle 2007 event. He also competed in a smaller amount of submission wrestling and submission grappling matches, in which he was also undefeated. Before signing with the UFC, Gustafsson fought mostly in smaller promotions in Sweden and other parts of Europe. By 2009, he had racked up a perfect pro-record of 8–0, with 6 wins coming by the way of KO/TKO, 1 by submission and 1 by decision.

The most notable victories in his first 8 fights came against German prospect Florian Muller, who he defeated by TKO in the second round on 13 March 2008.

Later that year, after another TKO victory against Matteo Minonzio, he replaced his former opponent Florian Muller on less than 24 hours notice against Krzysztof Kulak, who at the time was a top prospect in Poland, on 13 September 2008, at KSW Extra. He won the fight knocking Kulak down several times, earning the unanimous decision victory.

In his last fight before he was signed to the UFC, Gustafsson fought European veteran Vladimir Shemarov on 30 May 2009 at Superior Challenge 3. He won the fight by knockout in the first round.

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Glover Teixeira

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Glover Teixeira is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Sobrália, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He currently competes as a Light Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Teixeira is originally from the rural community of Sobrália, Minas Gerais, Brazil and is of Portuguese descent. There was no electricity in many of the homes in his community, and there was only one gas station. He moved to Danbury, Connecticut in 1999 to help support his family and found a job in landscaping. It was there that he met his wife, Ingrid. After watching boxers such as Mike Tyson and the early mixed martial arts fighters such as Royce Gracie and Chuck Liddell compete, Teixeira decided that he wanted to follow the same path. He had never heard of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but was able to find and watch videos of UFC 1 and UFC 2, which featured UFC Hall of Famer Royce Gracie. After working 10 to 12-hour days landscaping, Teixeira did boxing training at Hat City Boxing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu at American Top Team Connecticut. John Hackleman, who had trained a fighter who fought Teixeira and was impressed by the young Brazilian, invited Teixeira to his gym in California, The Pit, where Teixeira began training with Chuck Liddell. Teixeira now trains and instructs at his own gym Teixeira MMA & Fitness in Bethel, Connecticut. In November 2020, Teixeira became an American Citizen. "I'm so proud today because I’m officially an American Citizen. Now I’m very proud to represent both Brazil & America," said Teixeira.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (Two time)  vs. Misha Cirkunov & Mauricio Rua
* Performance of the night (KO) (One time)  vs. Wanderlei Silva

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 1
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Kamaru Usman

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Kamaru Usman is a Nigerian and American mixed martial artist from Auchi, Nigeria. He currently competes as a Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

Usman was born in Auchi, Nigeria. His father was in the Nigerian Army and his mother was a teacher. He has two brothers, Kashetu and Mohammed, of whom the former is a Doctor of Pharmacy and the latter is a mixed martial artist. Growing up with his mother and two brothers in Benin City, Usman struggled with the conditions in his environment during his childhood. Usman's father, who became a pharmacist in the United States, brought his family into the country when Usman was eight years old, immigrating to Dallas, Texas.

## Championships and accomplishments

* UFC Welterweight championship (One time)

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 3
 **Draws** | 0
Joseph Benavidez

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Joseph Benavidez is a American mixed martial artist from San Antonio, Texas, U.S.. He currently competes as a Flyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Benavidez was born on July 31, 1984, in San Antonio, Texas, and is of Mexican descent. Benavidez grew up with his single mother and two brothers. He attended Las Cruces High School, where he began training boxing. At the age of 16, he also began wrestling, discipline in which he became a New Mexico State champion. He continued to wrestle for one semester at William Penn University before dropping out. From the college onwards Benavidez struggled with alcohol and drug abuse before becoming sober, subsequently turning his interest into mixed martial arts.

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 2
 **By decision** | 3
 **Draws** | 0
Corey Anderson

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Corey Anderson is a American mixed martial artist from Rockford, Illinois, U.S.. He currently competes as a Light Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Volkan Oezdemir

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 3
 **Draws** | 0
Karolina Kowalkiewicz

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Karolina Kowalkiewicz is a Polish mixed martial artist from Łódź, Poland. She currently competes as a Strawweight in the UFC.

## Background

Kowalkiewicz began her mixed martial arts career at the age of sixteen when she began training in Krav Maga. She later trained in Muay Thai and decided to make it a career. She fought two amateur fights before turning pro.

Kowalkiewicz made her professional debut in her native Poland in May 2012. Over the next three-and-a-half years she amassed an undefeated record of 7 wins against no losses. She fought primarily for the Poland-based KSW promotion - where she was the Flyweight champion - and also made her U.S. debut for Invicta FC in November 2014.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (Two times)  vs. Cynthia Calvillo & Felice Herrig

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 4
 **Draws** | 0
Fight night 1

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**Fight night 1:** is the 2nd mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event will take place on 9th February 2021 at TBD

## Event

This event will feature eleven sanctioned mixed martial arts bouts. It is the first UFC show and will feature Six main card bouts, and five preliminary bouts. All fights will consist of three five-minute rounds, except for the championship fight, which consists of five five-minute rounds.

## Fight Card

1. For the Women's Bantamweight championship

2. For the Middle championship

## Bonus awards

* **Fight of the Night:** Oliveira v Ferguson
* **Performance of the night:** Cyborg
* **Performance of the night Sub:** N/A
Rob Font

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Rob Font is a American mixed martial artist from Leominster, Massachusetts, United States. He currently competes as a Bantamweight in the UFC.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Frankie Saenz
* Performance of the night KO (One time)  vs. Jimmie Rivera

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Curtis Blaydes

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Curtis Blaydes is a American mixed martial artist from Naperville, Illinois, U.S.. He currently competes as a Heavyweight in the UFC.

## Background

Blaydes was born in Naperville, Illinois and raised in nearby Chicago along with his four other siblings. He began wrestling for the De La Salle Institute, winning a state title his senior year while also compiling an undefeated 44-0 record. During his four years, Blaydes compiled an overall record of 95-18 with 121 takedowns. Blaydes also played football for De La Salle as a defensive end. He later earned a full wrestling scholarship to Northern Illinois University. After going 19-2 as a redshirt freshman at NIU, he transferred to Harper College. At Harper, Blaydes won the NJCAA National Championship as a redshirt sophomore. After he began fighting in amateur mixed martial arts, Blaydes left school to focus on a career in MMA.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Francis N'Gannou

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
 **By decision** | 3
 **Draws** | 0
Jussier Formiga

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Jussier Formiga is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. He currently competes as a Flyweight in the UFC.

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(born April 14, 1985) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the Flyweight division. A professional competitor since 2005, Formiga has most notably competed in the UFC and is the former Shooto South America 123-pound champion.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the night (Two times)  vs. Kaern Wilson & James Walker
* Performance of the night (Sub) (One time)  vs. Louis Smolka

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 3
 **By decision** | 4
 **Draws** | 0
Gilbert Burns

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Gilbert Burns is a Brazilian mixed martial artist from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He currently competes as a Lightweight & Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

When Burns was young, his father offered to fix his customer's car in trade for three months of jiu-jitsu lessons for all of his boys. Burns started training at the Academia Associação Oriente, an affiliate of Nova União led by Welton Ribeiro. He trained with Nova Uniao until the 2007 World Championship, where he came in second place.

In 2009, Burns became recognized when he won the silver medal at the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship.

In 2010, Burns attained a high level of international success competing worldwide. He reached the semifinals of the European Open in January; he defeated heavy favourite Celso Venicius at the World Pro Cup trials; he won the World Cup finals in Abu Dhabi against Claudio Mattos; and he won the Brazilian Nationals in May.

In 2011, Burns achieved his highest recognition as he won the gold medal in the 2011 World Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships.

In 2015, Burns won bronze at Abu Dhabi Submission Wrestling championships (ADCC).

in 2020, while waiting for his UFC title shot, Burns decided to challenge Nate Diaz to a grappling match on Chael Sonnen's promotion, Submission Underground.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Fight of the Night (One time)  vs. Al Iaquinta
* Performance of the Night SUB (One time)  vs. Jim Miller

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 3
 **By decision** | 1
 **Draws** | 0
Gunnar Nelson

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Gunnar Nelson is a Icelandic mixed martial artist from Akureyri, Iceland. He currently competes as a Welterweight in the UFC.

## Background

Nelson was born on 28 July 1988, in Akureyri in the north side of Iceland but has lived in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, almost all his life from early childhood. He played football and ice hockey in his childhood years. At the age of 13, he started training in Gōjū-ryū Karate and won the Icelandic Juvenile Kumite Championship title in 2003, and again in 2004 and 2005. He took home medals in every karate tournament he participated in from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, he was chosen as Iceland's most promising up-and-coming karate talent of that year, when he was just 16. However, he gave up karate to train in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and grappling at age 17. Gunnar's father, Haraldur Dean Nelson (aka Halli Nelson), is of Anglo-American and Icelandic descent. He is also Gunnar's manager. Gunnar's mother, Guðrún Hulda Gunnarsdóttir Nelson, is Icelandic. Gunnar has one sibling, a sister named María Dögg Nelson, born in 1992 in Reykjavík.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Performance of the Night Sub (One time)  vs. Darren Till

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 4
 **By decision** | 0
 **Draws** | 0
Marvin Vettori

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Marvin Vettori is a Italian mixed martial artist from Trento, Italy. He currently competes as a Middleweight in the UFC.

## Background

Eldest of the three siblings, Vettori was born in Trento, Italy. He was into martial arts when he was young, and started training kickboxing as his first real martial art around the age of 13. He was inspired to train mixed martial arts after watching fighters such as Fedor Emelianenko, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua's fights at PRIDE on TV when he was sixteen.

When he started out training MMA in Italy, Vettori went to six different gyms to get all the skills and training he needed, as in Italy, at that time, the sport was still growing and a proper MMA gym was hard to find. He moved to London in 2012 for two years to train MMA and later moved to United States to train at Kings MMA.

Vettori trains six days per week and his typical training day would split into two sessions, one in the morning and one in the evening. He starts out his training at 10am to train on his striking technique with his coach, Rafael Cordeiro, for an hour, follow by wrestling drills and cage work with the help of Mark Muñoz. The second session would be in the evening to work on either the conditioning or BJJ training which usually would end at 10 p.m.

Vettori also has a clothing line coming up called 'Italian Dream Apparel'.

## Championships and accomplishments

* Performance of the night (KO) (Three times)  vs. Jared Cannonier & Paulo Costa & Uriah Hall

## MMA record

 **By submission** | 0
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