MMA Fighter Kevin Randleman is Back

MMA fighter Kevin Randleman was born on August 10, 1971 in Sandusky, Ohio, and seemed destined to be a champion athlete. Kevin, also known as The Monster, is an American Mixed Martial Artist. At five feet, 10 inches tall and 205 pounds, the 37 year old MMA champ has an impressive athletic history. Kevin Randlemans background is one of wrestling. He was a two-time Division I NCAA Champion for Ohio State University. For two years out of the four that he spent at Ohio State, he was the Division I wrestling champion in his weight class. Kevin Randleman is also a former heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC.

When Kevin Randleman graduated from college, he began his professional career fighting. In 1996, Kevin Randleman won the first five cage matches he had at the competition Universal Vale Tudo Fighting 4. This is how he earned his nickname The Monster. In 1999, just three short years later, he began wrestling for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, or the UFC. He won almost all of the matches that he competed in. During the years time between 2002 to 2003, Kevin Randleman took part in Pride 22 through Pride 26, winning three out of the five competitions he was a part of.

Beginning in 2006, Kevin Randleman endured a handful of setbacks in his career and in his own personal life. He had failed a drug test that was administered to him by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. He had turned in un-human urine for the test, and was discovered. His fans were surprised, because he had been such an advocate against performance-enhancing drugs up until then. He explained that the reason he did not use his own urine was because he had been using antibiotics and painkillers after a surgery he had recently undergone. As a result, the Nevada State Athletic Commission revoked his fighting license for one year. Also in early 2007, he had been hospitalized with a critical staph infection that threatened his health seriously.

In August 2007, Kevin Randleman was arrested near Las Vegas on several different charges, one of which was drunk driving. After the horrible year of 2007 had passed for Kevin, he returned to fighting professionally, and in May of this year he won a comeback fight against challenger Ryo Kawamura of Japan.