Benjamin Brinsa
After compiling a 13-0 MMA record, Germany’s Benjamin Brinsa was signed up by the UFC in 2013, but they almost instantly regretted it as details of his thuggish behavior outside of the cage soon emerged.
As it turned out, there was more to his nickname, ‘The Hooligan’ as under scrutiny Brinsa acknowledged he’d been a football hooligan in his youth.
Furthermore, it was reported that Brinsa’s fight team La Familia had Neo-Nazi links and that he himself had ran a mail-order service for Neo Nazi rock music.
Brinsa denied involvement in any other extremist behaviour beyond hooliganism, stated he’d been focused purely on his fight career “for the past couple of years” and claimed he’d been the victim of a smear-campaign.
Nevertheless, after an investigation the UFC swiftly showed Brinsa the exit and he’d go on to suffer a major slump in form afterwards, losing three of his next four fights before hanging up his gloves in 2014.
