Bobby Southworth was born on December 16,1969 and is an American retired mixed martial artist who fought in the Light Heavyweight division.
19 Facts About Bobby Southworth
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Bobby Southworth has fought in PRIDE FC and appeared on Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter.
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Bobby Southworth grew up in Santa Cruz, California playing football and basketball, surfing and doing track.
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Instantly hooked to the discipline, Bobby Southworth soon joined Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu academy before moving on to Gracie Systems which was formed after Cesar's cousin Ralph Gracie moved stateside.
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Subsequently, Ralph opened his own academy in Mountain View, California where Bobby Southworth continued teaching and training jiu-jitsu.
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Bobby Southworth grew interested to take a no holds barred bout which was disapproved by Ralph, leading to Bobby Southworth's departure from the academy.
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Subsequently Bobby Southworth joined American Kickboxing Academy which at the time had no proper Brazilian jiu-jitsu program, so he took the responsibility of teaching the discipline.
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Bobby Southworth was overwhelmed by the Brazilian veteran and lost by rear naked choke in the first round.
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In late 2003, Bobby Southworth had a falling out over money with Javier Mendez and briefly retired from the sport.
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Still having the spark to compete, Bobby Southworth mended fences with Mendez and rejoined the academy about a year later.
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Bobby Southworth then appeared on Season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter.
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Bobby Southworth won his first preliminary fight against Lodune Sincaid, but lost the second versus Stephan Bonnar by split decision.
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Bobby returned to the house as a possible replacement for Forrest Griffin, should he not have been medically cleared to fight in the semifinals, but Forrest's cut healed safely and Southworth did not fight again until the undercard of the finale, where he fought a man he picked on in the house Sam Hoger and was defeated.
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Bobby Southworth next moved to Strikeforce, where his first fight was against James "The Sandman" Irvin.
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Bobby Southworth won a decision victory, taking White down repeatedly and controlling the pace of the match.
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Bobby Southworth's next fight was a non-title bout against Anthony Ruiz, a fight that Ruiz won by way of TKO in round 2.
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Bobby Southworth announced he would like a rematch and Sobral verbally agreed, however a rematch was never organized and following Sobral's 2013 retirement it is unlikely a rematch would ever occur.
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Bobby Southworth tried out for 11th season of The Ultimate Fighter.
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In 2015, Bobby Southworth began coaching at UFC Gym Hollow Brook in San Antonio, Texas.