One of the world’s top
middleweight athletes, Matt Lindland is a veteran of the UFC, International
Fight League and Bodog Fight. Always willing to test his skills against MMA’s
elite fighters, 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.
A silver medalist at
the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, and again at the 2001 World
Championships, Lindland, 37, attended the University of Nebraska on a wrestling
scholarship. He is currently the head coach of the IFL’s Portland Wolfpack,
boasting a lineup replete with Team Quest fighters.
Matt lives in Eagle
Creek, Ore., with his wife, Angie, and their two teenage children, James and
Robin. He owns Team Quest MMA Fitness in Gresham, as well as SportFight
(www.sportfight.tv), Oregon’s first sanctioned MMA promotion. Lindland
co-founded SportFight with Randy Couture in 2003 and was a leading advocate for
the sanctioning of mixed martial arts in Oregon. He also owns the Dirty Boxer
(www.dirtyboxer.com) equipment and apparel brand, which features a proprietary
compression-style groin protector.
