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Aaron Mitchell Stark is an American

United States

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Professional

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mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

(MMA) fighter. He trains with Team Quest

Team Quest

Team Quest is a mixed martial arts training camp founded by Randy Couture, Matt "The Law" Lindland, and Dan Henderson with six facilities located in Gresham, Oregon, Tualatin, Oregon, Murrieta, California, West Linn, Oregon, Oceanside, California, Redding, California and Chiang Mai, Thailand...

and was a member of the Portland Wolfpack

Portland Wolfpack

The Portland Wolfpack were a team in the now-defunct International Fight League and based in Portland, Oregon. The Wolfpack were coached by Olympic silver medalist in Greco Roman Wrestling, Matt Lindland. The Wolfpack were established in the middle of the 2006 season...

, an International Fight League

International Fight League

The International Fight League was an American mixed martial arts promotion billed as the world's first MMA league. It was founded on January 7, 2006 and closed on July 31, 2008...

team coached by Matt Lindland

Matt Lindland

Matthew James Lindland is an American mixed martial artist, Olympic wrestler and politician. He won the Oregon Republican Party's nomination for the Oregon House of Representatives, District 52 seat on May 20, 2008....

High school and college years

Wrestling since age 5, in 1993, he was the Oregon state champion during his senior year wrestling at Pendleton High School in Pendleton, Oregon

Pendleton, Oregon

Pendleton is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Pendleton was named in 1868 by the county commissioners for George H. Pendleton, Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 presidential campaign. The population was 16,612 at the 2010 census...

, where he only wrestled for one year. He transferred from Glencoe High School

Glencoe High School (Oregon)

Glencoe High School is a public secondary school in Hillsboro, Oregon's Hillsboro School District. It was founded in 1980 to help control the growing density of Hillsboro High School due to the city's rapid expansion, and is the second oldest of the four high schools in the city. Glencoe is...

in Hillsboro, Oregon

Hillsboro, Oregon

Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Lying in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city is home to many high-technology companies, such as Intel, that compose what has become known as the...

, which he attended from 1990 to 1992. He then wrestled for the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

, majoring in Agricultural Business

Agribusiness

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Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

, and graduating with a Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

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degree in 1998.

In 1996, Stark was the only wrestler in the country to score offensive points against National Champion Les Gutches

Les Gutches

Les Gutches is an American former amateur wrestler and coach. His accomplishments include winning the Dan Hodge Trophy as the nation's best college wrestler in 1996, becoming the National Collegiate Athletic Association champion in the 177 lb...

. His highest finish during his collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the collegiate and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling emerged from the folk wrestling styles practised in the early history of the United States...

career came during his senior (fifth) year

Redshirt (college sports)

Redshirt is a term used in American college athletics that refers to a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen his or her period of eligibility...

-- third place in the 1998 Big Ten Championships

Big Ten Conference

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held at Penn State University. His highest finish at the United States Open National Championships in freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practised throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history...

was eighth place.

Personal life

Stark is a non-active member of Mensa

Mensa International

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. He took the test (and scored 134, two points above the cutoff) while still an undergraduate in Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

.

On 9 September 2000, he married Tiffany Marie Tennefoss, owner of Tiffany Stark Fundraising LLC, a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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concern, who has worked for Ron Saxton

Ron Saxton

Ronald L. Saxton is an American lawyer and Republican politician in Oregon. A native of Oregon, his first public office was with the Portland Public Schools Board...

and Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

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. They lived in the hills of northwest Portland, but separated in late 2007. While his divorce is still pending, Stark has now joined several dating websites looking for childless women to date casually, as he has publicly stated that he has no desire to ever remarry or raise children.

Heir to a door and cabinet manufacturing company, he is an aficionado of Cuban cigars, and an oenophile who plans to bottle his own Pinot noir

Pinot Noir

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wine in a few years.

Mixed martial arts record

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Mario Miranda

Mario Miranda (fighter)

Mario Miranda is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competed most recently for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, fighting in their middleweight division.-Mixed martial arts:...

Gresham, Oregon

- Demographics :As of the census of 2000, there were 90,205 people, 33,327 households, and 22,695 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,071.6 people per square mile . There were 35,309 housing units at an average density of 1,593.8 per square mile...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Rodney Wallace

Rodney Wallace (fighter)

Rodney Wallace is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He previously fought in the UFC's light heavyweight division. Rodney currently competes for the Canadian based MFC promotion in the light heavyweight division...

|Submission (kimura)
|Vendetta Fighting Championship: A Night Of Vengeance
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Tim Boetsch

Tim Boetsch is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship . He was released by the UFC in late June 2009, with a record of 2 wins and 2 losses...

|Technical Submission (guillotine choke)
|KOTC: Thunderstruck
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Rashad Brooks
|Technical Submission (rear naked choke)
|CATC 4 - Carnage at the Creek 4
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Denis Gomes
|Decision (unanimous)
|VFC 1 - Vengeance Fighting Championship 1
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Ron Fields
|Submission (anaconda choke)
|SF 24-Domination
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|Win
|align=center|6-4
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Lamont Lister
|Decision (unanimous)
|IFL-Connecticut
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|align=center|3
|align=center|4:00
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|Win
|align=center|5-4
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Dallas Browning
|Technical Submission (d'arce choke)
|SF 21-Season's Beatings
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|align=center|1
|align=center|0:47
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|align=center|4-4
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Vladimir Matyushenko

Vladimir Vladimirovich Matyushenko is a Belarusian mixed martial artist and the first and only International Fight League light heavyweight champion...

Mike Ciesnolevicz

Michael David Ciesnolevicz is an American mixed martial artist. He fought for the Quad City Silverbacks of the International Fight League. Ciesnolevicz is also a veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship....

|TKO (punch)
|IFL-Championship Final
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|align=center|3-2
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Alex Schoenauer

Alex Schoenauer is an Argentine American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He last fought for the Los Angeles Anacondas of the International Fight League and resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.-Early life:...

|Submission (modified guillotine)
|IFL-World Championship Semifinals
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|align=center|2:43
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Reese Andy

Reese Andy is an American mixed martial artist. He has previously fought for Icon Sport and the IFL. After going 5-1 in the IFL, he signed a contract with the UFC. He made his UFC debut with a loss by decision to Brandon Vera at UFC: Silva vs. Irvin in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 19, 2008...

|TKO (strikes)
|IFL-Portland
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|Win
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Marcus Hicks

Marcus Dewayne Hicks is an American mixed martial artist who currently fights as a lightweight.-World Extreme Cagefighting:...

Brian Stann

Brian Michael Stann is an American mixed martial artist and former US Marine who competes as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former WEC Light Heavyweight champion...

External links

Aaron Stark's personals ad - public profile
Aaron Stark IFL Page
International Fight League
"Fight Night" Forest Grove News-Times interview
"Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" interview
Wolfpack's Stark Returns to IFL Action MMA Weekly interview
"The glove just fits" Sports Illustrated
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