Rare pictures of your favorite fighters in their early years

Came across these pictures in MMA forums and I thought I’d compile them all for your enjoyment!


Bas Rutten


Vitor Belfort


Brock Lesnar


Brock Lesnar


Chuck Liddell


Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic


Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic


Dana White


Mac Danzig


Mac Danzig


Nick and Nate Diaz


Nick Diaz


Don Frye


Fedor Emelianenko


Fedor Emelianenko & Aleksander Emelianenko


Fedor Emelianenko & Aleksander Emelianenko


Forrest Griffen


George St Pierre


George St Pierre


Dan Henderson


Dan Henderson


Hong Man Choi


Josh Koscheck


Kimbo Slice


Lyoto Machida


Matt Hughes


Matt Hughes


Mike Tyson


Ikuhisa Minowa


Nate Marquardt


Antônio Rogério Nogueira & Antônio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira


Alistair Overeem


Quinton “Rampage” Jackson


Kazushi Sakuraba


David “Tank” Abbott


Tim Sylvia


Tito Ortiz


Urijah Faber


Wanderlei Silva


Wanderlei Silva


BJ Penn

17 thoughts on “Rare pictures of your favorite fighters in their early years

  1. shawn says:

    and rampage looks alot like he was rapping with 3 6 mafia thats how they looked back when they were jovens even 8ball and mjg to look them fools up mane

  2. Brian says:

    Wow, I guess the Diaz brothers were always assholes. What kind of kid puts on the mean face at that age? In a school picture, too? Really? What does a kid that age have to be so pissed off about? Nick was probably out during recess when he posed for that picture. Relax, tough guys. It’s okay to crack a smile. You don’t have to be hard ass 24/7.

    Even Mike Tyson smiled.

    Oh, BJ looks like a kid in one of those Pizza Hut/Little League commercials.

  3. Joanna says:

    ~Did you see Brock’s baby pic…You could tell it was him even when he was that little! lol…Why didn’t they have any of Randy Couture? He has a bunch of them in his book…

  4. Haha… That picture with the mullet isn’t me.. although I wish it was – that’s a sweet “rebel” necklace… The toofless photo is me at age 6.. at least you got that one right…

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