This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Chris Weidman Turns 40

He authored one of the most memorable upsets in the sport’s history and for a time reigned atop the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight division, but his peak was so brief and his fall so precipitous that he might eventually be remembered more as one of MMA’s true tragic figures. Chris Weidman celebrates his 40th birthday on June 17.

Weidman was a four-time collegiate All-American wrestler at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, and Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He compiled a 51-21 record in two seasons at Hofstra, placing sixth nationally as a junior and third nationally as a senior. Weidman won his first 13 professional bouts as a mixed martial artist and…