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Tra Telligman

Tra Telligman, man. Tra Telligman was one of the toughest dudes the sport ever saw. Let's get the elephant out of the room: When Tra was about eighteen months old he was nearly killed by a car, resulting in the loss of most of the right side of his chest, including a lung, some ribs and most of his pectoral. Most people do not survive this. Tra not only survived, he reflected on his permanent sucking chest wound and decided to become a professional fighter--a decision he made when he was 8. Telligman was MMA's first real spoiler: Organizations repeatedly brought him in as a warm body only to experience surprising upsets. He won the SuperBrawl 1 tournament when everyone expected it to be a showcase for Jay R. Palmer in Hawaii, he went to Japan and took the surging Keiichiro Yamamiya to a draw in Pancrase, he submitted undefeated heavyweight prospect Brad Kohler in the UFC, and most famously, Pride brought him back after his losing debut as another warm body for Igor Vovchanchyn to knock out and he shocked the world by winning a decision instead. To put this in perspective, Igor had only lost one of his last forty fights, and that was to Mark Coleman, the best in the world at the time; Telligman was 6-3-1 and hadn't won a fight in more than three years.

That was Tra Telligman in a nutshell. He wasn't the strongest, the best or the most technical of fighters, but he was one of the toughest, and he made a game out of beating the odds. His accomplishments were modest--he retired at 7-5-1--but a full half of his fights were against world champions, and not a single one of them had an easy night.

Moveset, stats, logic and four attires (UFC 54 vs Sylvia / Pride 9 vs Barreto / UFC 12 vs Vitor / Pancrase: Alive 9 vs Yamamiya). There's no way to even remotely simulate the whole missing-half-of-his-chest thing, so unfortunately you just have to pretend it's there. Er, not there.