Carlos Newton
Canada's first UFC champion, a submission artist from Toronto
- Born
- August 17, 1976, The Valley, Anguilla
- Nationality
Canada- Height
- 175 cm (5′9″)
- Style
- Submission specialist
- Weight
- Welterweight, Middleweight, Light heavyweight
- Active
- 1996–2010
- Status
- Retired · age 50
The record
Professional MMA; matches Sherdog record
The story
orn in Anguilla, Carlos Newton moved to Canada at eight and went to high school in Toronto's Jane and Finch area. He competed in jiu-jitsu out of the city's Samurai Club, then followed his training partner to Warrior MMA in Newmarket. His 1996 debut was against a man at least 75 pounds heavier, and he lost only when exhaustion set in. In Japan he won the Vale Tudo Japan title and had a classic grappling battle with Kazushi Sakuraba at Pride 3, and in May 2001 he choked out Pat Miletich at UFC 31 to become the first Canadian UFC champion. He lost the belt six months later when Matt Hughes slammed him and both men appeared to black out. He later beat Renzo Gracie in Pride, retired in 2010 and opened his own gym in Pickering.
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- UFC welterweight champion (2001), the first Canadian UFC champion
- Vale Tudo Japan champion (1997)
- UFC 17 middleweight tournament runner-up (1998)
- Canadian jiu-jitsu champion (5 times)
- UFC Encyclopedia Submission of the Night (3 times)
- UFC Encyclopedia Fight of the Night vs Dan Henderson (1998)
Defining fights
- 1998LOSSvs Kazushi Sakuraba (kneebar, Pride 3)
- 2001WINvs Pat Miletich (bulldog choke, round 3, won UFC welterweight title)
- 2001LOSSvs Matt Hughes (KO by slam, round 2, lost UFC title)
- 2002WINvs José Landi-Jons (armbar, Pride 19)
- 2003WINvs Renzo Gracie (split decision, Pride Bushido 1)
Newton won his UFC title with a bulldog choke, a side-headlock choke that punishes an opponent who turns away or leaves the head outside on a shot. Drill it alongside your armbar and triangle so every scramble has a finish waiting in it.
