
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).
I’d watch the shit out of @nickdiaz209 vs @TWooodley. That’s the fight to make.@danawhite @ufc
— devon sawa (@DevonESawa) September 9, 2018
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."
Boycotting bad UFC events till they make less events (even 5 less a year) and stack the others more. https://t.co/QxmlLA8tP6
— devon sawa (@DevonESawa) July 7, 2018
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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