This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Kenny Florian Turns 40
One of two men -- Diego Sanchez is the other -- in Ultimate Fighting Championship history to compete in four different weight classes, Kenny Florian saw action inside the Octagon as a featherweight, lightweight, welterweight and middleweight. Florian will celebrate his 40th birthday on May 26.
A Westwood, Massachusetts, native born to Peruvian parents, “KenFlo” reached the final on Season 1 of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality series before bowing out of the tournament in a technical knockout loss to the aforementioned Sanchez. He went on to fight for UFC championships on three different occasions, losing to Sean Sherk and B.J. Penn at 155 pounds and Jose Aldo at 145 pounds. Florian compiled a 12-5 record in the UFC, besting a variety of opponents, from Clay Guida, Takanori Gomi and Joe Lauzon to Joe Stevenson, Roger Huerta, Din Thomas and Sam Stout.
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Others in MMA celebrating a birthday during the month of May:
MAY 1
Kiichi Kunimoto (35)Chad Mendes (31)
Dakota Cochrane (30)
Liz McCarthy (30)
Anistavio Medeiros de Figueiredo (28)
MAY 2
Garret Nybakken (35)Kikuyo Ishikawa (32)
Justin Scoggins (24)
MAY 3
Sam Greco (49)Shonie Carter (44)
Pedro Rizzo (42)
John Makdessi (31)
Patrick Holohan (28)
Bryan Barberena (27)
Mariana Morais (20)
MAY 5
Alex Schoenauer (40)Mizuto Hirota (35)
Steve Steinbeiss (35)
Lukasz Bugara (30)
Cortney Casey (29)
MAY 6
Luiz Jorge Dutra Jr. (34)Sam Alvey (30)
Beneil Dariush (27)
MAY 7
Frank Trigg (44)Kurt Pellegrino (37)
MAY 8
Jorge Patino (43)Caol Uno (41)
Tatsuya Kawajiri (38)
Manny Gamburyan (35)
Jesse Juarez (35)
Jessica Aguilar (34)
Mikey Gomez (34)
Danillo Villefort (33)
MAY 9
Spencer Fisher (40)Antwain Britt (38)
Shinya Aoki (33)
Chuka Willis (23)
MAY 10
Anthony Perosh (44)MAY 11
Jeremy Lang (41)Melvin Manhoef (40)
Magomed Sultanakhmedov (32)
Gilbert Jimenez (31)
Chas Skelly (31)
Joseph Sandoval (30)
Frankie Perez (27)
MAY 12
Damian Grabowski (36)MAY 13
Fredson Paixao (37)Guilherme Viana (30)
Yusuke Yachi (26)
MAY 14
Urijah Faber (37)Tom DeBlass (34)
Artur Guseinov (32)
Alvaro Herrera (26)
MAY 15
Shane DeZee (39)Josh Burns (38)
Tom Lawlor (33)
Kenji Yamamoto (32)
Brett Chism (29)
MAY 16
Hacran Dias (32)Darren Elkins (32)
Anthony Birchak (30)
Nazareno Malegarie (30)
MAY 17
Matt Lindland (46)Cheick Kongo (41)
Alistair Overeem (36)
Dan Hardy (34)
Paul Bradley (33)
Rich Hale (31)
MAY 18
Gabriel Gonzaga (37)Kazuhisa Watanabe (33)
MAY 19
Andre Gusmao (39)Wagner da Conceicao Martins (38)
Georges St. Pierre (35)
John Maguire (33)
Sergey Khandozhko (24)
MAY 20
Steve Berger (43)Alexander Shlemenko (32)
Jinh Yu Frey (31)
MAY 21
Bruce Buffer (59)Ricardo Lamas (34)
MAY 22
Murilo Rua (36)Tim Snyder (36)
Mark Oshiro (33)
Fumihiro Kitahara (32)
Joe Lauzon (32)
Keita Nakamura (32)
Teemu Packalen (29)
Steve Garcia (24)
MAY 23
Beau Baker (37)MAY 24
Paulo Filho (38)Frank Mir (37)
Alex Serdyukov (36)
Josh Thornburg (32)
MAY 25
Brad Blackburn (39)Hudson Rocha (35)
Mark Anthony Serkez (35)
Ulysses Gomez (33)
Dan Lariviere (33)
Scott Askham (28)
Ben Fodor (28)
MAY 26
Kenny Florian (40)Rob McCullough (39)
Lyman Good (31)
Jeremy Stephens (30)
MAY 27
Gideon Ray (43)Chris Cariaso (35)
Will Campuzano (30)
Diego Brandao (29)
Michael Hill (29)
Anthony Leone (29)
Geane Herrera (26)
MAY 28
Aaron Rosa (35)Scott Heckman (32)
MAY 29
Travis Fulton (39)Mamoru Yamaguchi (39)
Georgi Karakhanyan (31)
Steven Peterson (26)
MAY 30
Lyoto Machida (38)Yves Jabouin (37)
Ivan Menjivar (34)
Bart Palaszewski (33)
Amanda Nunes (28)
MAY 31
Akitoshi Tamura (36)Maria Rios (33)
Elias Theodorou (28)
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