Showtime Jamie Varner

    •    Record: 14-2 

    •    Height: 5'8

    •    Weight: 155 lbs.

    •    Style: Striking and Grappling

    •    WEC Lightweight Champion

        UFC 62 Main Event Card; Fight of the Night

        RITC Champion

        2006 Collegiate National Boxing Champion

    NJCAA Wrestling National Runner Up

“Showtime” Jamie Varner is the World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) 155 pound World Champion.  Jamie is known as a competitor; he likes to be the best at whatever it is he does.  Jamie, at the age of 23, won the WEC World Championship.  Doing the unthinkable is what Jamie is all about. When he wanted to wrestle, he was not big enough, but after a few weeks in the wrestling room he was pinning guys bigger than him. Jamie also was a 4-time All State swimmer, earning him multiple scholarships at D-1 schools.

Jamie went on to Lockhaven University where he wrestled at the D-1 level.   While at the university, he was injured and unable to wrestle, so he switched his sights to boxing.  Jamie walked onto the Lockhaven Boxing team and became a Champion Boxer in college. 

For Jamie, MMA is a calling.  He had been boxing since he was young kid with a passion for wrestling and the heart of a champion. Jamie began his MMA career at local events in AZ.  He won the RITC Welterweight Title and then linked up with the prestigious Arizona Combat Sports and World Champion Trainers Todd and Trevor Lally.  He also teaches beginning MMA at Arizona Combat Sports and is heavily involved with the AZCS Amateur MMA Team. Jamie has competed at high levels in all aspects of the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. He has placed in the Worlds, Pan American Games as well as won Fight of the Night honors in his UFC debut at UFC 62.  Jamie went on to beat Jason Gilliam at UFC 68 in the first round.  His post-fight antics earned him a two-page spread in “Men’s Journal” magazine (March 2008).  Jamie is as exciting inside the ring as he is outside of the ring.

Jamie made the move to the UFC’s sister company the WEC.  The WEC is a division that focuses on the lighter weight talents; the best of the best light weights fight at the WEC.  Jamie immediately made an impact on the WEC lightweight division by dismantling Sherron Legget 4 minutes into the 1st round. 

He then faced “Razor” Rob McCullugh for the 155-pound title.  Everyone except Jamie thought he was an underdog and that if he were going to surprise Rob and pull out the “lucky” win, he would have to submit the Champion.  Jamie proved them wrong again by standing with the Champion who had never been knocked out or lost since 2004 and knocking him out.  Jamie is fast on his way to becoming one the best lightweights in the world.