Travis Fulton, 396 Bout MMA Champion and Pro Boxer, Dies By Suicide at 44 in Jail

Ironman Travis Fulton, 396 Bout MMA Champion and Professional Boxer, Dies By Suicide at 44

Waterloo, Iowa (July twelfth, 2021)– Travis “The Ironman” Fulton, of Waterloo, Iowa, who holds the all-time report of 325 Blended Martial Arts sanctioned bouts, 75 professional boxing bouts, and one professional naked knuckles bout, probably the most mixture sanctioned bouts in historical past for an athlete in all three sports activities, dedicated suicide by hanging on July 10, 2021, at age 44. Most of Fulton’s important occasion MMA professional bouts have been in smaller reveals. As a professional boxer, Fulton fought some identified names, dropping all 22 bouts towards professional boxers with successful data. He’s survived by a daughter.

A wrestler and baseball participant in highschool, and a second diploma black belt in American Kenpo, Fulton debuted in MMA on July 26, 1996 at age 19. He fought 50 Vale Tudo bouts in Brazil in a single month, a former of MMA with few guidelines, and gained the vale Tudo heavyweight championship in Brazil. Fulton skilled in submission preventing within the Miletich Combating Methods beneath coach Pat Miletich in Iowa.

Fulton, who fought within the UFC and different circuits and gained ten Blended Martial arts tournaments, fought 320 Blended Martial Arts professional bouts, the all-time report, wining 255, dropping 54, with 143 knockouts, 10 attracts, one win by disqualification, and one No Contest. His titles included MMA Heavyweight champion of the worldwide Sport Fight Federation, knocking out Dan Chase in Arizona in 1999. His craziest MMA win was a 30 second win over Jonathan Ivey at Colosseum Fight 45, who faked a coronary heart assault.

Fulton’s skilled boxing profession was not as distinguished as his MMA profession, however he did have the excellence of preventing many huge names within the heavyweight division between 199 and 2017, compiling a professional report of 25-48-2 with 23 knockouts. He fought such identify fighters as Chazz Witherspoon, Tye Fields, Travis Kauffman, Brian Minto, Chris Koval, David Rodriguez, Albert Sosnoski, Ed Latimore, Rob Calloway (twice), Alonzo Butler, Raphael Butler, Chauncey Welliver, Simon Kean, Lou Savarese, Eugene Hill, Fres Oquendo, Jeremy Williams, Lateef Kayode, Oleksandr Teslenko, Byron Polley (twice), Donavan Dennis, Gerald Washington, Lenroy Thomas, Joey Abell, Craig Lewis, David Latoria, Ty Cobb, and Mladen Miljas, all heavyweights with successful data. Fulton was stopped, knocked out or disqualified towards all however three of them (Eugene Hill, David Latoria, and Ryan Hill) In opposition to boxing opponents with successful data, Travis Fulton was 0 for 22. In two of his final three bouts, Hill went the 4 spherical distance 280 pound Minnesota heavyweight Ryan Watson, and David Latoria of Illinois. Hill gained one spherical on one scorecard towards Hill in his closing ring look at age 42, a 4 spherical loss to Ryan Watson at Grand On line casino in Hinckley, Minnesota, in September 2019.

Legal Prices

He pleaded responsible Friday to 2 of the 4 prices towards him — sexual exploitation of a kid and possession of kid pornography.

The primary cost he admitted to was for having “used, persuaded, induced, and enticed” a toddler beneath 18 “to interact in specific conduct” for “a visible depiction,” court docket data present.

Travis Fulton’s alleged abuses stem again to at the least 2013.

He additionally admitted to having “visible depictions of a minor engaged in sexually specific conduct, together with an outline involving a prepubescent minor or a minor who had not attained 12 years of age,” the indictment reveals.

The abuse stretched again to at the least 2013, the indictment mentioned. After his responsible pleas, a federal decide canceled a trial date and set a July 23 plea listening to.

He was individually additionally dealing with a trial later this yr for attacking a girl in September 2019, when his sufferer “sustained fractures to her jaw, nostril, and palate,” in response to the Gazette.

“The sufferer was afraid to speak to police, however her relations reported she mentioned the defendant punched her within the head and again repeatedly,” a felony criticism said.

“He threatened to kill the sufferer and her household if she ever talked to the police,” the fees in that case mentioned.

“The defendant is a self-proclaimed skilled fighter, with a twenty-year profession, and the power to do critical bodily damage along with his palms,” the report famous.

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