Alan Jouban

Alan Jouban is happily married to Nicole Rangsita and the couple has a son.

Alan is a huge fan of Gigi Hadid and when he got the chance to kiss her in the Versace ad, he was quite happy about it and said that ‘She was a good kisser’.

Alan Jouban was born and brought up in Louisiana in the Lafayette region. Born on 25th November 1981, Alan had an inclination towards sports and other athletic activities since his early childhood. He played soccer with the neighbourhood kids on the streets, then in school as well. He got good at soccer eventually and considered a career in the sport.

By the time he was a teenager, he had no certain goal in life and just enjoyed training in gym and working out for hours at a time. His athletic aspirations continued until he got enrolled to the college in University of Louisiana. But after spending two semesters at the college, he just knew that this life wasn’t meant for him and there was no point in stretching that. He left college after 2 semesters. He had grown into a healthy young man by then, and started trying for modelling, in order to make some money.

He struck gold with modelling and slowly became the face of brands such as Nike and Pepsi among many others. He had started making huge money and a probable career in acting in film or TV seemed like a possibility. But his fate had some other plans for him, and he found himself practicing Muay Thai, a martial art. While doing that, his interest peaked in MMA and he started training for the same, while getting on with his modelling assignments. But it became harder for him to manage two ‘seemingly different’ careers, and he chose MMA, cutting down on his modelling projects.

As an amateur, Alan Jouban was undefeated for the first few months when he started entering the ring and he seemed to have that skill set an MMA fighter must have, despite the lack of apparent physicality and strength. He knew that for the bigger leagues, he needed to bulk up more and he did just that, and by March 2010, he started appearing in better events.

In his career’s first fight, Alan won the match in mere 14 seconds in the very first round against a weaker opponent via KO and in his career’s second fight against Kyle Griffin, which also happened to be his first professional fight, Alan won in the first round, again through a KO, in February 2011.

Fighting for Tachi Palace Fights, his second match saw him losing to Chidi Njokuani in May 2011. But in the next six fights for several different promotions, Alan registered victory after victory, winning 4 of the fights with Knockouts and 1 each by anonymous decision and submission.

He faced a loss against Mike Rhodes in RFA in October 2013, but again made a solid comeback and won the next three fights against some fierce opponents. In his last fight at RFC promotion, he defeated Ricky Legere Jr. by a split decision in the third round.

After that, it was the time to make the grand entry in the UFC ring, the most regarded MMA event across the world and his first match was scheduled to take place on 16th August 2014 against Seth Baczynski. The match was filled with some intense back and forth action, but Alan eventually emerged the victor. And the fight, which was noted to be one of the best fights in that year, was honoured with ‘Fight of the Night’ bonus for both the fighters.