Ed Herman

Ed Herman embodies everything I respect about journeyman fighters. Two full decades of professional competition, from 2003 to 2023, is an almost unfathomable stretch in a brutal sport, and surviving it across the UFC, Strikeforce, and Pancrase demands a rare kind of toughness. His run to the finale of The Ultimate Fighter 3 launched him, but it was his refusal to quit that defined him. He was never the flashiest champion, yet that durability is precisely what I admire most. Fighters like Herman, who keep getting back up and answering the bell, deserve far more recognition than they tend to receive.

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Name (English)

Ed Herman

Name (Japanese)

エド・ハーマン

Reading

えど・はーまん

Born

October 2, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Vancouver, Washington, United States

Height

188 cm

Occupation

mixed martial arts fighter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

High school

Columbia River High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Herman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5334935

Tags

• Washington
• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.