Background check: Rich Franklin
Posted on March 9, 2010, 05:02 PM by Rory KernaghanRich Franklin was born on October 5th 1974 in Cincinatti, Ohio. Franklin is 6ft 1in tall and weighs in at 195lbs (as of his last fight) but usually competes at 185 or 205lbs with a reach of 76 inches. He holds a brown belt in BJJ and is well trained in Freestyle fighting, Muay Thai and Boxing. He trains with Team Extreme/AMC Pankration and his MMA debut was in 1999 at world extreme fighting 6, where he beat Michael Martin via head kick knockout after 21 seconds of round 1. Since his debut Franklin has built up a record of 26-5-1. Sds
Rich then went on to beat Travis Fulton, Marvin Eastman by arm bar and Anthony Rea by TKO among others, before earning his debut in the UFC. His first UFC fight was against Evan Tanner at UFC 42. Franklin won by TKO in round one. His next UFC fight was another TKO win for Franklin as he dispatched Edwin Dewees in round one at UFC 44. After being knocked out by Lyoto Machida in the 2003 Inoki festival (Franklin's first loss) he went on to beat Leo Sylvest and Ralph Dilon before his third UFC fight in 2004. Franklin beat Jorge Rivera by arm bar when the two met at UFC 50. After beating Curtis Stout at Superbrawl 38 Franklin beat Ken Shamrock by TKO at TUF 1 finale. Since then he has fought only in the UFC beating such fighters as ETan tanner for the second time, Nate Quarry, Matt Hamill, Travis Lutter, Wanderlei Silva and Yushin Okami among others.
Franklin's losses have been to Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva twice, Dan Henderson and Vitor Belfort. If you are going to lose to anyone it might as well be the best. Franklin has beaten many top flight opponents and lost to only top fighters. In his time with the UFC Franklin held the middleweight tile after beating Tanner for the second time, and went on to defend it twice before losing it to Anderson Silva. Franklin's last fight was a TKO loss to Vitor Belfort at UFC 103.
Franklin has provided many great fights and always proves to be a good sportsman win or lose. He is rumored to be facing Randy Couture in his next fight, which may be postponed if new UFC signing James Toney is to fight Randy this April.
Comments
dude how many of these posts do you make, nobody cares about rich franklin's background... you must be getting pretty desperate to win that TV lowkick are giving out.
Dude stop acting like a kid. If you don't like my posts its like I said before DONT READ THEM
PrideFC
it doesn't matter because no matter how many he posts you'll always be there to comment on them. the difference is while rp actually posts something useful, you just look like a loser.
pride fc you a hater why you evan click on this post if you was gonna hate on it
Your opinion is the best, and it helps to have a hot chick in your avatar also hehe
Lamest posts in here are by you, in actually fact I think you just copy & paste the same response with slight changes every time!!!
Grow up & do something useful with your keyboard like submitting your own spectacular posts.
Stop reading them or go somewhere else.
People new to MMA & who only use this site might find them interesting.
Get over it
Its not useful its spam, if we really wanted to know this shit we could search it on wikipedia or google.. seriously.. its ok to do 1-2 of these a day but spamming it isn't cool.
i'm sorry do u run this website? no
I could do 50 of these a day also, just wikipedia copy and paste.. whats the fuking point? posting news or something constructive I don't mind, but copy pasting the whole wikipedia is fuking stupid...
Just shows you've too much time or you're just pissed that you didn't think of it.
Grow up!
lol thing is i dont care about a TV, im not even competing in it.. its just annoying to see his copy+pasted spam all over the place..
it's annoying to see u bitch all over the place, filling threads with completely irrelevant garbage. now tell me, which do u think is worse?
I don't copy and paste anything
Uhhh be smarter than your PC links and dont click......dayum even a thrid grader could figure that out.
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QUIT EATING ALL OF OUR CHOCOLATES!
Pretty pointless article TBH :/
I mean anyone can post it, post something more original
well check out my fan opinion posts they are all original and theres alot of them
and the point of the post is so lowkick can have a bunch of info on fighters so the users can view it on this site. cheers
nothing worng with MMA education, the people who matter appreciate your posts dude.
You never know RideFC, you might just learn something.
"Enlightenment is learning something you didnt know that you didnt know"
This dude is a great fighter but I am wondering how much more he has left in him... I would love to see the fight against Randy Couture.