Obscure/Weird facts about fighters pre UFC?

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Inspiration from this thread comes from me just finding out that Blagoi Ivanov has a NC on his record from a fight. The reason for the NC? The ring broke and therefore the fight was called off. His opponent? Ilir Latifi in his pro debut.





My favourite part about this is the event being called "real pain challenge 2".


I know another random one from memory is Ed Herman beating Glover in one of Glovers early fights pre UFC.

I know on the regional circuits some weird stories like these sometimes occur, I'm pretty bored at work and was hoping Sherdoggers have similar stories that myself and others may not know about?
 
Terry Martin vs Chael Sonnen fought early into their careers and Martin dominated Sonnen with takedowns...Bizarre fight, used to be up on youtube not sure if it still is.

Sakuraba fought Rampage and choked Page out early in Pride.

Cro Cop had a 48-8 amateur boxing record, was a 3x Croatian national champion and boxed at the amateur world championships. He also boxed and won a silver medal for I believe Tajikistan or Turkmenistan in the Asian games and won a Bronze medal in the Mediterranean games.

Frank and Ken Shamrock were adopted, not actual brothers (many of you know this but I thought they struck quite a resemblance for ages and was shocked when I heard initially).

Anthony Johnson trained at AKA and Cung Le was his striking coach.
 
Datsik genuine lunatic......
 
Genki Sudo's MMA debut what against Tiki Ghoson was originally declared a draw, but was changed to a decision win after Bas protested according to wiki.

Anyone know what happened here?
 
Joe Son who fought I beleive Keith hackney in the early UFC cards and lost via submission to being punched in the balls.

He then went on to star as odd job lookalike "random task" in Austin Powers.

Years later he was convicted of gang rape and put in prison where he killed his cell mate by beating him to death.
 
Genki Sudo's MMA debut what against Tiki Ghoson was originally declared a draw, but was changed to a decision win after Bas protested according to wiki.

Anyone know what happened here?

I'd love to hear more on this aswell.
 
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