Even in trying times, Mark Coleman is grateful for where he is in life and all that he has been able to accomplish.
Over the course of a 26-bout professional mixed martial arts career that began in 1996, Coleman became the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first heavyweight titlist, defied the odds to win the Pride Fighting Championships 2000 Open Weight Grand Prix and was ultimately elected to the UFC Hall of Fame in 2008. In between, “The Godfather of Ground and Pound” faced off against the likes of Fedor Emelianenko, Randy Couture, Don Frye, Dan Severn, Igor Vovchanchyn, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mirko Filipovic and Mauricio Rua, to name a few.