Jeremy Horn - Salt Lake City

I may not be good with names, but I recognize faces very well and I when I saw Jeremy Horn in the SLC airport, I knew immediately who he was. He was gracious enough to let me take this goofy photo with him. In fact, he was very cool and down to earth. He's fighting on June 24th against Dean "The Boogeyman" Lister who, like him, is a good jiu-jitsu fighter. In case you don't know who Jeremy Horn is, he's one of the most prolific fighters in MMA who claims to enjoy fighting more than actually winning. He's beaten some notable guys including Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell. I think he's fighting at middleweight now and, as you can see, he's got some height on me, but we are about the same size. I'm weighing around 210 these days. The main difference between us is that he's got skillz and I don't! Oh, my dad bought him a soda since his card didn't seem to work on the machine.

From wikipedia:

Jeremy "Gumby" Horn (born August 25, 1975 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a mixed martial arts fighter. He is one of the most experienced fighters in the sport with a professional record of 79-17-5.[1]

He has beaten such fighters as: Forrest Griffin, Josh Burkman, David Loiseau, Dean Lister, Vernon White, Gilbert Yvel and Chuck Liddell. His early martial arts training was under RBWI founder, Robert Bussey. Horn earned an RBWI black belt under Bussey in 1992. He spent most of his career with the Miletich Fighting Systems team in Iowa, and is currently training in Salt Lake City, Utah with Elite Performance, the team that he created.

He is known for defeating former light heavyweight champion and UFC star Chuck Liddell by submission at UFC 19, one of Liddell's five losses in mixed martial arts. Liddell later avenged his loss to Horn at UFC 54 in the fourth round when the fight was stopped after Horn told the referee he could no longer see.

After losing to Matt Lindland, in the second round due to strikes, at an IFL show on the 9th September 2006 Horn, later, announced that he would be taking a break from fighting. Jeremy Horn returned from this break when he beat Falaniko Vitale by Split Decision at the IFL Oakland Show.

Horn openly discusses how he often likes to fight more than he likes to win. Although technically very talented, he feels he often lacks the motivation and focus to perform at his best.

He most recently fought his 100th MMA fight, losing to Jorge Santiago by way of a triangle choke at 3:02 of the 1st round.

On January 9, it was announced by the UFC that Horn would replace Thales Leites in a fight against Nate Marquardt at UFC 81. This was the first time that Horn has fought in the UFC in over a year.

Horn lost to Nate Marquardt by a standing guillotine choke.



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