15 Facts About Sean Salmon

Sean Salmon was born on September 11,1977 and is an American retired mixed martial artist and a former columnist for MMA news site MMAjunkie.

Sean Salmon began his high school wrestling career for Birmingham Groves High School in Birmingham, Michigan.

Sean Salmon continued his career in amateur wrestling and qualified for the Olympic trials while competing at the Ohio International Wrestling Club in the freestyle wrestling circuit.

Sean Salmon made his professional mixed martial arts debut in 2005 in Columbus, Ohio and won via keylock submission in the first round.

Sean Salmon made his UFC debut in the main event of UFC Fight Night 8 on January 25,2007.

Sean Salmon was then scheduled to fight Eric Schafer at UFC 71 on May 26,2007, but he instead faced Alan Belcher after Schafer broke a rib during training.

On June 9,2007, Sean Salmon submitted Jason Freeman at a North American Allied Fight Series event in Cleveland, Ohio called Fite Nite at the Flats III, winning via Americana keylock.

On November 16,2007, Sean Salmon lost to Jorge Santiago via knockout due to a flying knee in a Strikeforce tournament which Santiago eventually won.

Sean Salmon had been hired as a guest wrestling coach for the famed Wolfslair MMA Academy in England.

Sean Salmon briefly left the camp to participate in one of his own bouts, to which the camp responded by telling him to come back healthy and able to train the fighters or don't return at all.

On June 6,2009, after he was unable to finish his opponent in the first round, Sean Salmon intentionally left his arm out to be submitted.

Sean Salmon has since received criticism from the mixed martial arts community and was punished by the Ohio State Athletic Commission.

Sean Salmon fought early UFC veteran Laverne Clark on August 20,2011.

Salmon, in an interview on the podcast MMA Hour, stated that if he lost his next fight in 2014 he would formally retire from contact sports, Sean had taken the rest of 2013 after his loss to Todd Brown and a back surgery in mid-2013 to prepare for the fight in 2014, it had been rumored that he would fight veteran Jason Guida on the undercard of a Bellator event.

Sean Salmon later pulled out of the bout, set to be on the undercard of Bellator 112 on March 14,2014, for undisclosed reasons.