Chris Leben

Chris “The Crippler” Leben is the mohawked Portland middleweight from the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, best remembered for sleeping-bag fights with his housemates. He went 12–10 in the UFC, knocking out Jorge Santiago and Aaron Simpson and submitting Yoshihiro Akiyama with a triangle in 2010, just two weeks after the Simpson fight.

He served a jail sentence for probation violations and failed two drug tests before retiring in 2013. He later boxed bare-knuckle. CagePotato covered his tumultuous career and his life after fighting.

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