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25 biggest celebrity MMA fans: The Rock, Snoop Dogg, Madonna and more

By Amy Kaplan

LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 23: (L-R) Daniel Cormier, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris Weidman pose for a portrait during the UFC 187 event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 23, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 23: (L-R) Daniel Cormier, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris Weidman pose for a portrait during the UFC 187 event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 23, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) /
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT – FEBRUARY 11: Actor Devon Sawa answers audience questions at the Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2 premiere event at Megaplex Theaters At The Gateway on February 11, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Fred Hayes/Getty Images for Cinedigm Entertainment)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – FEBRUARY 11: Actor Devon Sawa answers audience questions at the Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2 premiere event at Megaplex Theaters At The Gateway on February 11, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Fred Hayes/Getty Images for Cinedigm Entertainment) /

1. Devon Sawa

Devon Sawa is best known for his early ’90s movies like Casper, and Now and Then, but did you know that the teen hearthrob is also a huge MMA fan? Sawa is actually pretty funny too. His self-deprecating humor translates well into his live tweeting of UFC events (when he’s lucky enough to be able to watch them between work and kids).

The UFC even sat down with Sawa to get to the bottom of his fandom, and where it started:

"It’s kind of weird but at the age of 25 I just decided to stop acting altogether. I wanted to take a break because I had been doing it since I was 11. I was going to a lot of parties and clubs and I was just done. I was burned out on it all. I moved back to Vancouver, where I’m from, and went to this community boxing gym and started training there. A little while later, my wife and I went over to Thailand and I started training Muay Thai and I fell in love with it. I came back and got back into acting. I became a member of Legends when it was owned by Bas Rutten and just started training that way. As it would turn out, I got a role where they needed some sort of mixed martial arts, so it all came in handy."

Sawa even had a column, called “Sawa Says” where he laid down his choices for some of the UFC’s biggest fight cards.

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