Travis Fulton trying to get win 250

From Travis Fulton's Facebook page.



Randy Couture 19 wins 11 losses
Chuck Liddell 21 wins 8 losses
Tito Ortiz 16 wins 10 losses 1 draw
Brock Lesnar 5 wins 3 losses
Travis Fulton 249 wins 41 losses 7 draws

We fought alot of the same guys. The UFC brought mma mainstream, and these guys were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and compete for one organization their entire career. I on the other hand had the oppurtunity to compete in 13 different countries, fight in events like the UFC, WEC, Pancrase, King of the Cage, IFL, WVC and also fought in that dark, beer soaked, bar room cage fighting event hosted by some sleazy promoter that you had to chase down at the end of the night to get your paycheck. 

Most people from my hometown don't realize that I hold records in MMA that'll never be broken, or that everybody who is a true MMA fan (and not some new UFC generated super fan who now thinks that they know everything there is to know about MMA but in reality know nothing outside of what they've been spoon fed by Spike TV) knows who I am. My career has been a little bit of a disappointment to myself, but I'm not a liar who runs around town claiming to be somebody I'm not. I'm not an arrogant guy, and anybody who thinks I am doesn't really know me and is just making assumptions. I'm not an *******, and I don't treat people like **** unless they deserve it.

Everybody has a buddy who is the next great thing in MMA. I've heard them all. The guy who is 31-0 yet when you look his record up he only has 16 fights, most on the amateur level, and he beat the same guy 5 times. There's the guy who beat Cro Cop and Carter Williams to win the Strikeforce title and $80,000 cash, and the guy who's 29-0 and fights in the WEC all the time (even though I saw him lose in 15 seconds at a small town amateur Iowa event to a local bar fighter). Ahh the list could go on and on about all the goons I've met or been told about over the years that are true MMA "superstars"

Everybody has access to the internet, and these days you can't BS about accomplishments you've achieved that anybody with half a brain couldn't easily debunk by performing a simple google search on the subject.

This Saturday I'm going to try and win my 250th professional mma fight. I used to be a lunatic and wanted to fight every minute of everyday. I beat lots of legitimate mma fighters, and I've beaten lots of local tough guys and bar fighters. You could easily google me and see that my outrageous claims of 300 professional mma fights is actually true. What I find far more impressive than having had so many fights is that I was able to type out this entire post without performing a spell check despite the fact that I'm lacking a high school diploma and have probably suffered severe head trauma on several occasions in the past 16 years.

He is fighting March 24th at 5 sullivan in waterloo iowa. 

It's interesting to think of what Fulton's career might have been like had he not taken a fight every weekend for years.  He actually has a 1-1 UFC record.

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I haven't followed him to much but it seemed like he had a lot of potential that he didnt live up to in his younger years. 

You'll see some guys on Fulton's record that he fought multiple times and they almost all weren't because they were scheduled.  He had so many opponents back out last minute that he'd have another fighter brought along to the venue in case his actual opponent backed out to be a last minute fill-in so the trip wasn't wasted money.  He had a good interview on the MMA@Work Podcast and talked about some of the things like that, including AC's having difficulty approving fights because of how many he has when logically who would the AC consider as experienced?

@Kpro i guess i didnt know things like that were happening. i'll have to look that pod cast up and listen in. 

I have tons of respect for Travis Fulton...what he's done in this sport is nothing short of remarkable.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=18561&cat=boxer

here is his pro boxing record according to this website. Guy has a ton of heart. 

yeah he's a pioneer of MMA and just overall beast. He has one of the worst slams i've ever seen.

i've seen that...are you talking about the one where he slammed that karate/TKD guy? that was crazy.

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I suppose no Fulton thread is complete without it...

@analias you are correct!

yeah the crazy karate guy lol.

@Tank, good Fulton interview.  It's Podcast 12 of 22 on this page: http://www.mmaplayground.com/forums/topic49645-1.html

* Edited at 03.18.2012, 11:59 AM ET *

@Kpro thanks for the link i'll check it out here soon.

here is the poster for his next fight.

Hopefully he gets #250, Fulton's record is epic.

Fulton and his slam over Bullock is still one of my favorite KOs of all time. That makes me cringe everytime. Bullock looks seriously hurt after the slam.

I think he actually broke his back from that slam, not 100% sure of that but thought I read it somewhere

Poir is correct