Nick Newell
| Nick Newell | |
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| Born |
March 17, 1986 Milford, Connecticut, United States |
| Other names | Notorious |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Weight | 155 lb (70 kg) |
| Division | Lightweight |
| Reach | 74.0 in (188 cm) |
| Style | Wrestling |
| Fighting out of | Springfield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Team | Fighting Arts Academy |
| Years active | 2009–2015 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 14 |
| Wins | 13 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| By submission | 8 |
| By decision | 3 |
| Losses | 1 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
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Nick Newell (born March 17, 1986 in Milford, Connecticut) is a retired American mixed martial artist, who fought in the lightweight division.
Newell was born with congenital amputation of his left arm, which ends just below his elbow. Newell has a very short yet muscular stump of his forearm which he learned from a young age to grasp objects with. Newell, born with his little stump and therefore not needing to adapt or re-learn, joined his high school wrestling team. He thought about quitting after his very first session because it was 'the hardest thing I had done in my life' as he says, but his mother did not allow him, and instead he worked hard from then on.
Newell has over 300 victories between high school and college in wrestling( if you include non competition matches in college).
Newell stated that while growing up, he idolized former Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott, who has no right hand and was an inspiration for Newell to challenge himself.
His roommate in college was WWE wrestler Curt Hawkins. They would watch The Ultimate Fighter, which was on the same channel right after WWE Raw, and Newell has said this is what inspired him to take up MMA.
Before turning professional, he amassed an amateur record of 5 wins, 1 loss. He describes his early MMA career as a struggle, not because he could not win, but because other fighters did not want to fight a one armed fighter. The potential opponents who turned down fights against him felt that it would be a lose-lose situation for them, as if they won, it would've been against a one-armed fighter; if they lost, it would've been against a fighter with one arm. As such, finding quality opponents became a struggle for Newell.
In 2011, Newell signed a multi-fight deal with both Shark Fights and Xtreme Fighting Championships. He was supposed to have made his Shark Fights debut at Shark Fights 19, however an injury resulted in him being left off the card. He had his first bout with XFC at XFC 15: Tribute. The event was renamed 'Tribute' in honour of Nick's friend and fellow XFC signee Abi Mestre, who was killed in a motorcycle accident. Mestre was a close friend and teammate of Newell’s who joined Nick last year at the open tryouts for the XFC.
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