LAS VEGAS – There are dozens of fighters who have a higher profile in the Ultimate Fighting Championship than Stephan Bonnar. There are just as many with a better record and probably that many more with greater skill. He hasn’t won a UFC title and probably never will.
Few mixed martial arts fighters, though, have done as much to fuel the sport’s popularity and extraordinary growth than Bonnar, who makes a return to “The Ultimate Fighter” on Saturday when he meets Igor Pokrajac at The Palms Resort & Casino in a light heavyweight bout as part of TUF 12 finale on Spike TV.
Bonnar’s 2005 fight with Forrest Griffin in the TUF finale remains one of the seminal moments in the sport’s history. UFC president Dana White has frequently said the company may not have survived had Bonnar and Griffin not engaged in that epic back-and-forth battle that, in many ways, began to open Americans’ eyes to what the sport was about.
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