Solid "non-full time" fighters

[Hotora86]

Yesterday Tony Ferguson tried to discredit Khabib's title by mocking his win over "non-full time fighter real estate agent" Al Iaquinta:



Having a day job doesn't make Iaquinta any less solid though - he is 14-0 in ammy MMA, 13-4 in pro MMA, beat #6 ranked LW Kevin Lee, TUF tourney winner Diego Sanchez as well as veterans Masvidal and Lauzon. He is a TOUGH fighter no doubt.

Many other solid MMA fighters also have / had day jobs outside of MMA careers. Here are some of them:

• Stipe Miocic (UFC champ) - firefighter
• Demetrious Johnson (UFC champ) - forklift operator
• Rich Franklin (UFC champ) - math teacher
• Fedor (PRIDE champ) - deputy (politician)
• Mirko Cro Cop (PRIDE champ) - Anti-Terrorist Unit officer
• Shane Carwin - mechanical engineer
• Tim Kennedy - National Guard
• Mike Russow - police officer
• Chris Lytle - firefighter
• Ivan Menjivar - security guard
• Eddie Wineland - firefighter
• Paulo Thiago - police officer
• Piotr Hallmann - navy officer
• Chael Sonnen - real estate agent
• Brett Rogers - tire technician
• Joe Lauzon - network administrator
• Fernando Bruno - cook

That's 3 UFC champs, 2 PRIDE champs and 12 solid fighters with a winning record! It's really dumb to discredit a fighter who has a day job IMHO.

Do you know any other solid "part-time" fighters?

 

[vengeful]

Manny Pacquiao -Congressman

 

[Übermacht]

Mike Perry - philosopher

 

[kmelloh]

Soon enough DC- High school wrestling coach

 

[Frank McEdgar]

Drug dealer

 

[Reach4theSky]

Jon Jones. Part time fighter - full time sh!t disturber..

 

[binny]

Cro Cop has always been some kind of swat team cop right?

Are we counting all the commentators/ Fox guys?

 

[KB Warrior]

Rousimar Palhares - Chiropractor

 

[BigMuffler]

Cain
JDS
Gus
GDR
Cat (in prime)
Conor

...oh wait people with another job not people who never fight. Well GDR is a police officer lol

 

[QueenVitor]

Conor - God

 

[wigglestick]

GSP was a garbageman, I don't think he is anymore though

 

[kmelloh]

Are we counting all the commentators/ Fox guys?

I don’t think we should. It’s not outside of the MMA world, isn’t daily and the fighters that do it are the ones that don’t necessarily need to for the money.

 

[Spacelord13]

Brett Rogers livin the dream.

 

[jpadilla295]

Those pain meds are fucking tony up!

 

[Bend NvR Break]

Shane Carwin was a full time mechanical engineer

Edit - saw that you listed this already.

And national guard is full time? My guys dad is a Lt. Colonel in the Illinois national guard. He's a full time teacher and coach.

 

[Hotora86]

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Drug dealer

I don't think he deals.
He just smokes.

 

[DanMMAleague]

Cro cop, Stipe and Carwin are the best examples, more possible in the HW division.

 

[Hotora86]

Cro Cop has always been some kind of swat team cop right?

Are we counting all the commentators/ Fox guys?

You're right about Cro Cop - he was in an Anti-Terrorist Unit. I added him to the list.

I'm not counting commentators.

 

[Hotora86]

GSP was a garbageman, I don't think he is anymore though

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. But that was before turning pro as a mixed martial artist.

 

[DDx2]

Cung Le was part-time actor