33 Facts About Todd Duffee

Todd Duffee was born on December 6,1985 and is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight division of Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki.

Todd Duffee was born in Evansville, Indiana but grew up in Raleigh, Illinois and Eldorado as the third son of a coal miner father and nurse mother.

Todd Duffee played many sports growing up, including baseball, football, track, bull riding, soccer, and basketball.

Todd Duffee began training in boxing but was not very devoted to it as he was playing other sports.

Todd Duffee then moved to Atlanta, Georgia when he was 18 years old and continued boxing, before watching a UFC event and shifting his training to mixed martial arts.

Todd Duffee was working on a degree from the University of Georgia before transferring to University of Nevada, Las Vegas, then dropping out to train mixed martial arts full-time.

Todd Duffee won his first three fights against Mike Walbright, Mark Haniger and Josh Bennett.

Todd Duffee then agreed to fight UFC and PRIDE FC veteran, Assuerio Silva in the main event of Jungle Fights 11.

Todd Duffee dominated the fight and won by knockout in the second round.

Todd Duffee was set to make his UFC debut against Mostapha al-Turk at UFC 99 until the UFC pulled Todd Duffee from the fight.

Todd Duffee was next announced by the UFC to face fellow UFC newcomer Mike Russow.

However, Todd Duffee was then pulled from that match and instead was matched up against Tim Hague at UFC 102.

Todd Duffee set the record for the fastest KO in UFC heavyweight history after flooring Hague with a stiff jab and rendering him unconscious with follow-up ground and pound.

Todd Duffee was expected to face Paul Buentello at UFC 107 but pulled out due to a back injury.

Todd Duffee fought Mike Russow at UFC 114 in which he lost via KO in the third round.

Todd Duffee was expected to face Jon Madsen on October 23,2010 at UFC 121, but Todd Duffee was forced off the card due to injury and replaced by Gilbert Yvel.

On September 7,2010, Todd Duffee was surprisingly released from the UFC for unknown reasons.

Todd Duffee spoke publicly about MMA fighters being underpaid and how he needed to take a second job just to pay for his training.

Todd Duffee said after the fight that he respected Overeem's ability but felt that if he had sufficient time to train and prepare that it would have been a completely different outcome.

Todd Duffee was scheduled to face Nick Gaston on July 16,2011 at DREAM 17, but an injury sustained fighting Tyler East two weeks prior to fighting Todd Duffee forced Nick Gaston to withdraw from the event.

Todd Duffee faced fellow UFC veteran Neil Grove on the SFL's second show held on April 7,2012.

Todd Duffee won via TKO after just 34 seconds in the first round, following up a right-hook that dropped Grove with heavy ground-and-pound.

Shortly after his win, with SFL taking a 4-month break until their next event it was revealed that Todd Duffee would be allowed to fight outside of the organization that summer if he could find fights.

Todd Duffee was appealing to promoters on Twitter for fights in both MMA and Professional Boxing but none came to fruition by the time of SFL's next event.

Todd Duffee made his UFC return against Phil De Fries on December 29,2012 at UFC 155, as a replacement for Matt Mitrione.

Todd Duffee returned from his extended hiatus to face Anthony Hamilton on December 6,2014, at UFC 181.

Todd Duffee won the fight via knockout in the first round.

Todd Duffee faced Frank Mir in the main event at UFC Fight Night 71 on July 15,2015.

Todd Duffee was expected to face Mark Godbeer on March 4,2017, at UFC 209.

In May 2021, Todd Duffee returned to training after successfully rehabbing further shoulder and knee surgeries, as well as a positive COVID-19 diagnosis.

Todd Duffee lost the bout in the first round via ground and pound TKO.

In 2011 Todd Duffee made his film debut in the Michael Jai White-produced Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown, portraying Tim Newhouse, a talented MMA fighter who lives in relative poverty and has to deal with losing his father.

Todd Duffee had a cameo in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in a fight scene.