November Dad of the Month…Matt Lindland

Our November Dad of the Month is Matt Lindland.  Matt is a great example of perseverance and the fighting spirit.  He is 21-5 in his professional fighting career and is coming off an impressive win in July.  He has fought many of the top names in the sport, and continues to dominate.  Here is a little more about Matt:

 Matt Grew up in the Redland area outside Oregon City and attended Gladstone High School.  After graduating, Matt attended Clackamas Community College where he won a National Title in Junior College Wrestling.   Lindland then attended the University of Nebraska on a wrestling scholarship.

Matt Lindland was a silver medalist in wrestling at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, and again at the 2001 World Championships.

 One of the world’s top middleweight athletes, Matt Lindland is a veteran of the UFC, International Fight League and Bodog Fight. In a heavily touted match, Matt fought a much heavier Russian fighter on the Russian’s home turf. The match was such a major event that Putin himself attended the fight and had his picture taken with Lindland.

Matt has always been willing to test his skills against the elite fighters in his field. Lindland, 20-5, has moved up from his natural weight class on multiple occasions, including a split-decision loss to current UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson and a bout with top ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko.

Matt has lived in the rural areas in and around House District 52 for most of his life, currently living in Eagle Creek with his wife and their two teenage children, James and Robin.

Matt owns Team Quest MMA Fitness in Gresham, as well as SportFight (www.sportfight.tv), Oregon’s first sanctioned MMA promotion. Lindland co-founded SportFight in 2003 with former world heavy-weight champion Randy Couture and successfully advocated for the sanctioning of mixed martial arts in Oregon.

Matt also owns his own equipment and apparel line used and worn by elite athletes in the sport fighting industry.

Be sure to go to the main page of www.dadsworld.com and click on Matt’s interview.  Thanks for supporting involved Dads!

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