John Maguire is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 mixed martial artist

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...

, who competes in the welterweight

Welterweight (MMA)

The welterweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*The UFC's & Strikeforce's welterweight division, which groups competitors within 156 to 170 lb...

 division. He is the former Cage Rage UK Welterweight Champion and has also competed in BAMMA

BAMMA

The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts is a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. It is considered by many as the biggest MMA promotion in the country. It premièred on June 27, 2009 and was shown on the television channel Bravo...

. Maguire is currently signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

.

Early career

Maguire made his professional MMA debut in April 2006. Over the next two years, he won all eight of his first bouts via TKO or submission with no fight going past the second round. Before signing with the UFC, he added an additional eight wins and three losses to his MMA record.

Maguire won the UCMMA Welterweight championship on September 18, 2010, at UCMMA 15 - Showdown, defeating Henrique Santana via TKO. He has defended it three times since then.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Maguire was scheduled to make his UFC debut against James Head

James Head (fighter)

James Head is an American mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to the UFC and fights in the middleweight division.- Mixed martial arts :...

 at UFC 138

UFC 138

UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 5, 2011 at LG Arena in Birmingham, England. The event aired on the same day, via tape delay, on Spike TV in the U.S. and live on Sportsnet in Canada...

. However, Head was forced to withdraw due to injury and he instead took on The Ultimate Fighter 13

The Ultimate Fighter 13

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos is the thirteenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter....

 veteran Justin Edwards

Justin Edwards (fighter)

Justin Ross Edwards is an American mixed martial artist competing in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Edwards has made a name for himself fighting in the Midwest. He was a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos...

. Maguire won the fight via unanimous decision.

Mixed martial arts record

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|Win
|align=center|17-3
|Justin Edwards

Justin Edwards (fighter)

Justin Ross Edwards is an American mixed martial artist competing in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Edwards has made a name for himself fighting in the Midwest. He was a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos...

|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC 138

UFC 138

UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 5, 2011 at LG Arena in Birmingham, England. The event aired on the same day, via tape delay, on Spike TV in the U.S. and live on Sportsnet in Canada...

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|Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
|UFC debut
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| Win
|align=center|16–3
|Peter Irving
|Decision (unanimous)
|UCMMA 23: Go 4 It
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
| Defended UCMMA welterweight championship
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|Win
|align=center|15–3
|Jamaine Facey
|Submission (kimura)
|UCMMA 20: Fists of Fire
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|align=center|2
|align=center|4:23
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
| Defended UCMMA welterweight championship
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| Win
|align=center|14–3
|Dean Amasinger
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|UCMMA 18: Face Off
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|align=center|2
|align=center|3:28
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
| Defended UCMMA welterweight championship
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|Win
|align=center|13–3
|Henrique Santana
|TKO (doctor stoppage)
|UCMMA 15: Showdown
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|align=center|2
|align=center|1:25
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
| Won UCMMA welterweight championship
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|Win
|align=center|12–3
|Wayne Murrie
|Decision (split)
|OMMAC 6: Battlestars
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England
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|Loss
|align=center|11–3
|Simeon Thoresen

Simeon Thoresen

Simeon Thoresen is a Norwegian mixed martial artist currently training under Joachim Hansen at Hellboy Hansen MMA.-Background:He started training karate at an early age, but choose to devote himself to gymnastics instead at the age of 8....

|Decision (unanimous)
|BAMMA 3

BAMMA 3

BAMMA 3: WATSON vs. HORWICH was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on May 15, 2010 at the LG Arena in Birmingham, England. It featured three title fights, and was headlined by Matt Horwich and Tom Watson...

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|align=center|5:00
|Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
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|Win
|align=center|11–2
|Edgelson Lua
|Decision (split)
|UCMMA 10: Resurrection
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
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|Loss
|align=center|10–2
|Tom Watson

Tom Watson (fighter)

Tom "Kong" Watson is an English mixed martial artist, currently fighting at middleweight and training at Tristar Gym in Montreal, Canada and Jackson's Submission Fighting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is known for his unorthodox entrances, dancing to the ring in a gorilla mask...

|TKO (punches)
|BAMMA 1

BAMMA 1

BAMMA 1: WATSON vs. MAGUIRE was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on June 27, 2009 at the Room by the River in London, England. The event was televised on Bravo in the United Kingdom....

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|align=center|2:47
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
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|Win
|align=center|10-1
|Chris Rice
|Decision (unanimous)
|CG 10: Clash of the Titans
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England
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|Win
|align=center|9–1
|Lee Austin
|Submission
|UK: Cage Fighting Championships
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|align=center|1
|align=center|4:20
|Coventry

Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...

, England
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|Loss
|align=center|8–1
|Arman Gambaryan

Arman Gambaryan

Arman Gambaryan is an Armenian mixed martial artist who competes primarily in the light heavyweight division.-Career:Fighting out of St. Petersburg, Russia, he is a member of the Red Devil MMA organization. He has fought with the M-1 global organization for most of his career, and has trained with...

|Decision (unanimous)
|WAFC: World Pankration Championship 2008
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|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
|Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|8–0
|Andy Costello
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|Pain and Glory: ExCeL London
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|align=center|1
|align=center|N/A
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
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|-
|Win
|align=center|7–0
|Jake Bostwick
|Submission (kimura)
|Cage Rage: Contenders 6
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|align=center|1
|align=center|4:00
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
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|Win
|align=center|6–0
|Jake Bostwick
|TKO (punches)
|Cage Rage Contenders 5
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|align=center|1
|align=center|N/A
|East London

East London

East London is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa, situated at 32.97°S and 27.87°E in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of the Eastern Cape province. The city lies on the Indian Ocean coast, largely between the Buffalo River and the Nahoon River, and is the country's only river...

, United Kingdom
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|Win
|align=center|5–0
|Alex Korsters
|TKO
|Intense Fighting
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|align=center|2
|align=center|3:30
|Peterborough

Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...

, England
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|Win
|align=center|4–0
|Ed Garass
|Submission (rear naked choke)
|UKMMAC 18: Fists of Fury
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|align=center|1
|align=center|0:55
|Purfleet

Purfleet

Purfleet is a place in the Thurrock unitary authority in Essex, England. It is situated south of the A13 road on the River Thames and within the easterly bounds of the M25 motorway but just outside the Greater London boundary. It was within the traditional Church of England parish of West Thurrock...

, England
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|Win
|align=center|3–0
|Michael Pastou
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|Intense Fighting: Caged
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:46
|England
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|Win
|align=center|2-0
|Bill Mutch
|Submission (rear naked choke)
|Intense Fighting 5
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:05
|England
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|Win
|align=center|1–0
|Lee Webber
|Technical Submission
|Intense Fighting 3
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|align=center|2
|align=center|0:27
|England
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