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Forrest Griffin defeated Stephan Bonnar by decision to win The Ultimate Fighter 1 Light Heavyweight Crown.
However, before Griffin reached the finals, he had to forge medical documents just to appear on the reality show.
“I forged my medicals,” Griffin said on the Love & War podcast (transcript via Alexander K. Lee of MMA Fighting). “I forged my medicals for The Ultimate Fighter. This is back in the Xerox days. This is true. I had my friend Frank Bishop sign as the doctor and he was, like, stressed out. I don’t know, I was broke. So I Xerox’d [a previous form], whited out the date, wrote it again, and then re-Xerox’d a grainy copy so you couldn’t tell I’d whited the date. I just changed the date by a couple of years. I didn’t have HIV or hepatitis. I think you have to have sex to have those, so I was safe. I’m way more safe than I want to be here.”
Griffin would go on to have a legendary career in the UFC, eventually capturing the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.
