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Former UFC interim champion Carlos Condit will make his Octagon return on October 3 when he faces fellow veteran Court McGee at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. MMA Junkie reported the bout Wednesday afternoon following Condit announcing the fight on “The Buck…
Former UFC interim champion Carlos Condit will make his Octagon return on October 3 when he faces fellow veteran Court McGee at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. MMA Junkie reported the bout Wednesday afternoon following Condit announcing the fight on “The Buck and Dex” podcast. This will be the first action of 2020 for both […]
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Find out where your favorite The Ultimate Fighter winners are now:
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With the UFC having now secured a new broadcasting deal with ESPN from 2019 onwards, Dana White recently admitted that ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ show may finally be on its way out after a 27season series run.
As such, now seems like a good time to take a look back at what has become of every single one of the long-running show’s 35 ‘Ultimate Fighter’ winners to date.
Find out what your favorite past winners of TUF are up to now:
Diego Sanchez
It’s a testament to Diego Sanchez’s durability that 13 years after winning TUF season 1 he remains the only fighter from that historic series to still be actively competing in the UFC, having amassed 27 fights (16-11) to date.
However, after suffering back-to-back first-round knockouts in his last two fights, it’s possible that the 36-year-old’s memorable career is now entering its final stages, though Sanchez has assured his fans that, “I’m not done yet.”
Forrest Griffin
Arguably TUF’s most iconic winner, Griffin’s fight with Stephan Bonner in the Season 1 finale was declared as the most important fight in UFC history by Dana White, while he’d also go on to win the light-heavyweight title too.
Griffin retired in 2013 at the age of 33 due to chronic injuries, but he’s since been inducted into the UFC’s Hall of Fame and now works for the UFC as their Vice President of Athletic Development.
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How would a UFC star fare in the boxing ring? That’s the question everybody seems to be debating in the build-up to Conor McGregor’s blockbuster fight with Floyd Mayweather on August 26th, but it’s worth keeping in mind that ‘The Notorious’ is far from the first UFC fighter to have fought in the squared circle. […]
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How would a UFC star fare in the boxing ring?
That’s the question everybody seems to be debating in the build-up to Conor McGregor’s blockbuster fight with Floyd Mayweather on August 26th, but it’s worth keeping in mind that ‘The Notorious’ is far from the first UFC fighter to have fought in the squared circle.
In all fairness, the circumstances surrounding McGregor Vs Mayweather are unique. We’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before – a UFC champion at the peak of their career head to the boxing ring, let alone agreeing to face one of that sport’s all-time greats.
Nevertheless, there are a number of fighters currently fighting in the UFC who do have professional boxing bouts on their records, often from much earlier in their career’s, and in this article, we’ll take a closer look at how they did – from the good and the bad through the downright ugly.
One of MMA’s all-time greats, Anderson Silva has also tested his skills in the boxing ring twice during his combat sports career.
His pro boxing debut took place in his native Brazil all the way back in 1998 when he was just 23 years old. At the time he was only just getting started in his MMA career too, with both of his wins at the time having come during a single-night tournament a year earlier.
Despite his lack of experience, Silva was handed a tough first outing against Osmar Luiz Teixeira, a cruiserweight (200 pounds) who held an 8-2 boxing record and had finished six of his fights inside the distance.
No video or photographs exist of the fight, but officially it was recorded as a victory for Teixeira due to Silva retiring after the second round, allegedly due to body shots.
After a two year absence, Silva returned to MMA, and by 2005 had amassed a 15-3 record, but after surpisingly being released by the PRIDE organization, he briefly opted to return to the boxing ring.
This time he faced Julio Cesar de Jesus, a newcomer who would prove to be no match for Silva’s by-now seasoned striking and was finished with punches to the body and head in the second round.
It wasn’t long before Silva signed for the UFC and he would go on to achieve superstardom as their long-reigning middleweight champion, but over the years he’s also harbored an ambition to fight legendary boxer Roy Jones Jr in the ring.
However, despite both indicating their interest in the match-up, this particular super fight has never come to fruition.
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MMA fighters are used to living life on the edge, knowing that every time they set foot in the cage they risk getting injured, knocked out or choked unconscious. However, some of these battle-hardened warriors have gone far beyond that in their personal lives outside of the cage, finding themselves in truly terrifying situations where […]
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MMA fighters are used to living life on the edge, knowing that every time they set foot in the cage they risk getting injured, knocked out or choked unconscious.
However, some of these battle-hardened warriors have gone far beyond that in their personal lives outside of the cage, finding themselves in truly terrifying situations where they have stared death straight in the face and yet somehow lived to tell the tale.
In this article we’ll explore 10 such stories, from near-fatal accidents to deadly altercations, not to mention several alarming incidents where it’s the fighters themselves who have been their own worst enemies.
Before he became an MMA fighter, Court McGee enjoyed drinking alcohol far too much for his own good.
It was a problem that got worse during his college years, but things really started to get out of hand when he broke his collarbone and clavicle in 2003 and then began mixing painkillers with the booze.
Over the next two years McGee would fall deeper into addiction, moving on to snorting crushed up Oxycontin, then cocaine, before finally turning to heroin as life began to completely fall apart.
One September 9th, 2005, McGee’s self-destructive behavior caught up with him and he overdosed on heroin, falling limp to the floor in the bathroom of his cousin’s trailer.
When paramedic’s arrived on scene they frantically tried to resuscitate McGee, whose heart would stop beating for eight minutes in total. It was only when an officer found a syringe that they realized he’d overdosed and were able to take the appropriate steps to bring him back to life.
Afterwards, McGee would spend six days in a coma and then had to undergo extensive rehabilitation to re-learn basic motor skills like walking.
Remarkably, just five months later McGee would relapse, emerging after a four-day binge with no pants on looking for a place to score meth.
That was the final straw and McGee sobered up soon after, got into recovery and found a sense of purpose in mixed martial arts, which would eventually lead to him fighting in the UFC, where he remains to this day.
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The UFC really gives fans a chance to see some interesting things during “Fight Week.”
One of those is open workouts, where the fighters set to compete tend to “show-off” for the fans i…
The UFC really gives fans a chance to see some interesting things during “Fight Week.”
One of those is open workouts, where the fighters set to compete tend to “show-off” for the fans in attendance.
If you were not one of the lucky ones to be in Salt Lake City earlier this week to see the open workouts for UFC Fight Night 92, you can check out highlights of the event featuring moments with Yair Rodriguez, Alex Caceres and Utah’s own Court McGee.
Court McGee has a story to tell.
Chances are, you’ve heard his story. McGee, raised in a good family with a good upbringing, started taking painkillers to help with an injury, and then fell into the clutches of a deep and enduring heroin addictio…
Court McGee has a story to tell.
Chances are, you’ve heard his story. McGee, raised in a good family with a good upbringing, started taking painkillers to help with an injury, and then fell into the clutches of a deep and enduring heroin addiction that nearly took his life. In fact, it did take his life, in a manner of speaking; after an overdose in 2005, McGee was declared clinically dead before being resuscitated. He had to learn how to speak and walk again after that incident, and had to learn how to live life.
But he did learn how to live again. He wasn’t perfect, and there were relapses.
“I took one drink in Vegas and I ended up in Iowa four days later with no pants on and a long sleeve shirt, looking for meth,” McGee once said on The Ultimate Fighter.
In April 2006, McGee went clean, and this time it would stick. Like many addicts, McGee can count out the time he has been clean, down to the hour. It is a way of remembering, of looking back at an accomplishment and seeing, yes, I can do this thing that I once thought was impossible. I once was lost, but now I’m find. Was blind, but now I see.
McGee’s story of addiction began circulating on The Ultimate Fighter in 2010, and gained even more traction when he won the show. He dedicated that win to everyone struggling with addiction, which casts a wider net than you might think.
The feedback was overwhelming. ESPN produced a documentary called “Dead Man Fighting,” and the din grew louder. McGee began hearing from friends of friends of friends, people who knew someone, somewhere that was struggling, and they all wanted to know one thing: how can I help?
McGee shared his store more and more, finding a release in the telling. His story became the most powerful tool in his arsenal, something with far greater impact than anything he does in the cage. He began to dedicate his life outside the Octagon to helping others who struggled with the same things he’d struggled with, trying to make sure they knew this wasn’t the end of the line.
Today, McGee is taking his life’s work to the next level with the launch of a new Kickstarter project that will fund something called Hope 361. It’s a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing hope to others who are struggling with addiction, and seeks to help guide them through recovery. McGee is seeking $30,000 in funding; after little more than 24 hours, more than $7,000 has been donated.
McGee’s vision for Hope 361 is this: an online community where addicts who are struggling can share their stories with others, receive positive and encouraging messages, find videos documenting others who have been helped and connect with clinical out-patient and in-patient rehabilitation facilities. It will also help fund McGee’s speaking tour, where he shares his message of addiction and recovery with people of all ages.
McGee said that over 20 million people say they are in longterm recovery. Many of them started in their teenage years.
“It’s important for me to start at the high school level and carry that message and say, listen: this is real. This actually happens,” McGee said. “This is what will happen if you choose to do it. And if you have the courage today to choose not to do it, I encourage that choice.”
McGee also visits prisons, drug rehab centers, youth correctional facilities and churches. Once, he went straight from a prison to a Mormon church.
The point, McGee believes, is that everyone is capable of being rescued. But they need people who care enough to look after them.
“It doesn’t matter who or how or how far they’re gone,” McGee said. “If you know somebody that’s struggling, this is a good way to help them.”
You can visit Court McGee’s Kickstarter page for Hope 361. Jeremy Botter covers mixed martial arts for Bleacher Report.
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