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Jeremy Horn

Jeremy "Gumby" Horn is one of the last of the original breed of MMA fighters--not the pioneers who invented the sport, but rather the teenagers who saw UFC 1, got inspired and decided to devote their lives to rough, self-taught road-warrior martial arts. As a sign of exactly how unrefined martial arts opportunities were at the time, Horn's first training came from the infamous self-styled ninjitsu master Robert Bussey, a fraud most noted for entering his fighter Scott Morris into UFC 2 and, when Pat Smith began breaking his face with elbows, intentionally throwing his towel into the crowd so the fight couldn't be stopped, because death is preferable to dishonor for a ninja.

Yeah, Horn didn't train there for long. The bulk of his real training came from the legendary Miletich Fighting Systems.

He started in 1996 and stopped at the end of 2015, and in that time he fought across virtually every organization worth a damn: Extreme Challenge, the UFC, Pancrase, IFC, HOOKnSHOOT, Neutral Grounds, RINGS, the UCC, WEC, KOTC, TKO, Pride, the IFL, Art of War, UFO--he even showed up in Bellator. He fought some of the top contemporaries across the early, mid and modern periods of MMA, from Frank Shamrock and Dan Severn to Chuck Liddell and Ricardo Arona to Anderson Silva and Rousimar Palhares. He holds victories over a dozen world champions and world championships in a half-dozen organizations.

That's the damnable problem. It's hard to summarize Jeremy Horn, because his is one of the most lengthy, storied careers in the sport's history and any attempt to discuss it turns into a procession of lists. This is a man who submitted Chael Sonnen three times, across three organizations, in two years. His style was just a bit too viewer-unfriendly for him to get the fame he deserved--as a case in point he showed up twice in Pride, winning dominant grappling decisions over Akira Shoji and Gilbert Yvel, but management was too turned off by his style to pony up the money to keep him. His highest-profile fight came at UFC 54, as he challenged for Chuck Liddell's light-heavyweight title--a rematch from UFC 19 six years earlier, when Horn choked the then-unknown Iceman unconscious. Horn had promised to be more fan-friendly, intending to stand up with Liddell and engage him in his element. Unsurprisingly, Liddell beat seven shades of hell out of him. It's a testament to Horn's toughness that Chuck Liddell at the height of his power teed off on him for three rounds and still didn't knock him out: The fight ended when Horn submitted because, while wholly conscious, he had been beaten so badly he couldn't see.

Horn retired at 91-23-5--with 79 of this victories coming by stoppage, 62 by submission. He's still one of the best grapplers and toughest fighters the sport ever saw.

Moveset, stats, logic and four attires (UFC 54 vs Liddell / Pride 18 vs Shoji / Pancrase: Advance 12 vs Yamamiya / Extreme Challenge 7 vs Severn).