Wes Shivers
Encyclopedia
Wesley Davis Shivers is an American
professional
mixed martial arts
(MMA) fighter. He was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
. Shivers also played in three National Football League
games with the Tennessee Titans
in 2000.
Shivers had a small role in movie Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown .
. He stopped playing all sports with the exception of football and spent his time training to be a champion. After graduation, Shivers attended a junior college prior to attending Mississippi State University
. Shivers played on the football team as an offensive tackle. He was named a Junior College All-American, as well as being on the All-Southeastern Conference
team. Shivers was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the 7th round of the 2000 draft
and played three games before being cut. Shivers became a police officer
after retiring but retired from that to pursue MMA.
. In his first fight, he lost a controversial majority decision to eventual semi-finalist James McSweeney
.
After more than a year, Shivers returned to action, defeating Goldman Butler at Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro
via KO.
|Win
|align=center|8-1
|
Goldman Butler
|KO (punch)
|Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:15
|Jackson, Mississippi
, United States
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|Win
|align=center|7-1
| Jerry Carol
|Submission (arm-triangle choke)
|Psychout - MMA
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:49
|Jackson, Mississippi
, United States
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|-
|Loss
|align=center|6-1
| Brad Tidwell
|KO (punch)
|Fight Force International - Blood and Sand 6
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|0:16
|Byram, Mississippi
, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|6-0
| Justin Thornton
|KO (punch)
|Psychout - MMA
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|1:16
|Byram, Mississippi
, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|5-0
| Christopher Adams
|KO (punch)
|Fight Force International - Blood and Sand 5
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|N/A
|Biloxi, Mississippi
, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|4-0
| Carlton Little
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|KOTC - Reckless
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:53
|Greenville, Mississippi
, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|3-0
| Greg Maher
|KO (punches)
| Fight Force International - Blood and Sand 4
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:42
|Biloxi, Mississippi
, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|2-0
| Bo Hooks
|Submission (punches)
| Fight Force International - Beatdown
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:10
|Hattiesburg, Mississippi
, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|1-0
| James Neely
|Submission (guillotine choke)
| ShoXC
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:22
|Vicksburg, Mississippi
, United States
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| align="center" style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#f0f0f0;"|Location
| align="center" style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#f0f0f0;"|Notes
|-
|Loss
|align=center|0-1
|
James McSweeney
|Decision (Majority)
|The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
| Las Vegas, Nevada
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|-
United States
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professional
Professional
A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...
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 was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights is the tenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship -produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. In a press conference following UFC 98, Dana White announced that filming for the season would begin on June 1, 2009...
. Shivers also played in three National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
games with the Tennessee Titans
Tennessee Titans
The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. They are members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 as a charter...
in 2000.
Shivers had a small role in movie Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown .
Football career
After he entered high school, Wes decided that he wanted to devote all of his time to American footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
. He stopped playing all sports with the exception of football and spent his time training to be a champion. After graduation, Shivers attended a junior college prior to attending Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University
The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science commonly known as Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States, partially in the town of Starkville and partially in an unincorporated area...
. Shivers played on the football team as an offensive tackle. He was named a Junior College All-American, as well as being on the All-Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...
team. Shivers was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the 7th round of the 2000 draft
2000 NFL Draft
The 2000 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur U.S. college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 15–16, 2000...
and played three games before being cut. Shivers became a police officer
Police officer
A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force...
after retiring but retired from that to pursue MMA.
Mixed martial arts career
After picking up 4 stoppage wins in local Mississippi organizations, Shivers spent a good part of 2009 participating in the UFC's The Ultimate Fighter: HeavyweightsThe Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights is the tenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship -produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. In a press conference following UFC 98, Dana White announced that filming for the season would begin on June 1, 2009...
. In his first fight, he lost a controversial majority decision to eventual semi-finalist James McSweeney
James McSweeney
James Adam McSweeney is an English mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai kickboxer. He was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights.-Biography:...
.
After more than a year, Shivers returned to action, defeating Goldman Butler at Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro
Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro
Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro was a mixed martial arts event held by the Strikeforce. The twelfth Challengers episode took place on November 19, 2010, at the Jackson Convention Complex in Jackson, Mississippi. The event drew an estimated 210,000 viewers on Showtime.-Televised...
via KO.
Mixed martial arts record
|-|Win
|align=center|8-1
|
Goldman Butler|KO (punch)
|Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro
Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro
Strikeforce Challengers: Wilcox vs. Ribeiro was a mixed martial arts event held by the Strikeforce. The twelfth Challengers episode took place on November 19, 2010, at the Jackson Convention Complex in Jackson, Mississippi. The event drew an estimated 210,000 viewers on Showtime.-Televised...
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:15
|Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...
, 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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|Win
|align=center|7-1
|
Jerry Carol|Submission (arm-triangle choke)
|Psychout - MMA
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:49
|Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...
, 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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|Loss
|align=center|6-1
|
Brad Tidwell|KO (punch)
|Fight Force International - Blood and Sand 6
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|0:16
|Byram, Mississippi
Byram, Mississippi
Byram is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,386 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place . It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was incorporated for a second time in its history on June 16, 2009.-History:Byram...
, 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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|-
|Win
|align=center|6-0
|
Justin Thornton|KO (punch)
|Psychout - MMA
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|1:16
|Byram, Mississippi
Byram, Mississippi
Byram is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,386 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place . It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was incorporated for a second time in its history on June 16, 2009.-History:Byram...
, 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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|-
|Win
|align=center|5-0
|
Christopher Adams|KO (punch)
|Fight Force International - Blood and Sand 5
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|N/A
|Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2010 census recorded the population as 44,054. Along with Gulfport, Biloxi is a county seat of Harrison County....
, 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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|Win
|align=center|4-0
|
Carlton Little|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|KOTC - Reckless
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:53
|Greenville, Mississippi
Greenville, Mississippi
Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 48,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2009 census bureau estimates, it has since declined to 42,764, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. It is the county seat of Washington...
, 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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|Win
|align=center|3-0
|
Greg Maher|KO (punches)
| Fight Force International - Blood and Sand 4
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:42
|Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2010 census recorded the population as 44,054. Along with Gulfport, Biloxi is a county seat of Harrison County....
, 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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|Win
|align=center|2-0
|
Bo Hooks|Submission (punches)
| Fight Force International - Beatdown
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:10
|Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 44,779 at the 2000 census . It is the county seat of Forrest County...
, 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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|-
|Win
|align=center|1-0
|
James Neely|Submission (guillotine choke)
| ShoXC
ShoXC
ShoXC was a mixed martial arts series produced by the mixed martial arts organization EliteXC, Showtime and Proelite.com. The series was announced on July 11, 2007. The purpose of the show is to highlight up and coming MMA fighters....
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:22
|Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is the only city in Warren County. It is located northwest of New Orleans on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, and due west of Jackson, the state capital. In 1900, 14,834 people lived in Vicksburg; in 1910, 20,814; in 1920,...
, 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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Mixed martial arts exhibition record
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|Loss
|align=center|0-1
|
James McSweeneyJames McSweeney
James Adam McSweeney is an English mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai kickboxer. He was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights.-Biography:...
|Decision (Majority)
|The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights
The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights is the tenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship -produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. In a press conference following UFC 98, Dana White announced that filming for the season would begin on June 1, 2009...
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|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
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Las Vegas, NevadaLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
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