Ziggy Who?

Fighter profile of Ziggy Ozbourne by

Ziggy? Who is Ziggy? Many of you have asked this question when you saw him listed on a fight card, or perhaps now as you read this article. Who the hell is Ziggy Ozbourne? Is that one of Ozzy's kids? Did the chick decide to identify as a dude? No, thankfully not that. Ziggy may have ties to the Ozbournes of rock, but none that he has ever admitted publicly.

Ziggy's childhood was uneventful, to say the least. He grew up in a split home after his parents divorced before his first birthday. Ziggy lived with his mother, his father a cop who lived but a few miles away never seemed to want to have anything to do with Ziggy, and after a while, Ziggy didn't mind. He instead focused his energies on football. In middle school, Ziggy was one of the smallest kids to try out for the team. The coaches took him for a joke but let him try out with the squad and were pleasantly surprised at his instincts. Ziggy had a way of always getting open, his agility and quickness allowed him to cover the faster and bigger kids. It didn't take long before Ziggy was playing at a high level both in the secondary as well as at wide out. In high school, Ziggy took it to the next level where he lead his team to the Alabama state championship game in back to back years, winning the first in overtime and the second by way of blowout. He was highly recruited by top universities including Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida, and Clemson. He could have had a full ride off of his physical gifts, but he shocked the world by turning down the option to go to college to play ball. Ziggy had been studying martial arts during high school which helped him with his balance, flexibility, and quickness. His ability to read movements of opponents and predict what they were about to do allowed him a huge advantage in football. But he wanted to hone in on that skill at it's core, in pure hand to hand combat. No team, no pads, no pussy quarter backs. Ziggy decided to give MMA a shot before he completely closed the door on his college football career. He took up a fight offer at HFC for a single fight in the young up and coming brand. His manager Andrew Wittig has close ties to HFC, so it was easy to get a fight in the pros as a virtual unknown. Ziggy trained and took advantage of this opportunity, displaying his raw athleticism in his first ever MMA bout against Issa Kassib where he scored a 26 second KO victory over the unexpecting Kassib. This lit a fire inside of Ziggy that has fueled him to this day. He took a full time contract with BFC and went right to work on Albert Lawrence. Staying true to his style, Ziggy finished Lawrence in first round fashion by way of a brutal TKO stoppage. Next, Ziggy went strait after the mouthiest son of a bitch in the organization, Nathan Dylan. They talked some shit, signed the fight, and then at the last second, some would argue out of fear, but Dylan claims he wanted to be the main event, Dylan missed weight cut and intentionally threw the fight. Ziggy had to wait for his opportunity to step back into the cage after the layoff from the Dylan debacle. He finally got another chance when he stepped into the cage with Brandon Graves at BFC HARDCORE 5. Another TKO victory for Ziggy in the first and now Ziggy stands looking down the tunnel at his next opponent, Samuel Rodrigues. Ziggy grew up watching Ziggy terrorize the HFC, and now here he is with a chance to fight the legend himself. This is the biggest fight of Ziggy's career. His striking is on another level than that of Rodrigues, but Rodrigues is one of the best submission artists of his generation. This fight is no gimmie, and Ziggy will have to be on point to keep his undefeated record in tact against a legend. But if he wins this next fight against Rodrigues, he will no longer be "Ziggy who?" as he will surely be knocking on the door as a contender in the BFC lightweight division and well on his way to becoming a household name.

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