This Thursday, fight fans will be treated to a dream match over two decades in the making, as Shannon Ritch (57-85, 4 NC) locks horns with Travis Fulton (254-54-10, 1 NC) at M-1 Global’s Road to M-1: USA 2 in Winterhaven, California.
With over 450 attested and documented mixed martial arts bouts between the two -- and in Ritch’s case there are almost certainly many more we don’t know of -- this meeting of “The Cannon” and “The Ironman” is unsurpassed in that regard in the history of the sport. They make the man fighting directly after them, 75-22 Travis Wiuff, look like the prospect he is by comparison.