Like anything else in everyday life, reinventing yourself can open the door to a dream opportunity where you never need to worry about your past struggles and gradually shift the focus to embracing your future success inside of a tight and trusted professional circle while restricting access to those with a derailing demeanor and negative influence. In today’s episode of Across The Pond, you will meet a husky of hurricane howls ready to drench the doubters with buckets of soaking shame as the newest greenchip stock well worth the capital investment from The Ultimate Fighter. A professional mixed martial artist since July 2021 and representing Catalyst Fight House, Christian Strong sports a 9-1 record in 10 bouts consisting of five knockouts and four decisions. He has fought for various promotions throughout his time as a professional MMA fighter including Battlefield Fight League and Fury Fighting Championship. Strong appeared on The Ultimate Fighter season 34 as a member of Team Cormier in 2026 and has finished five out of his nine wins over the course of his career arc inside the professional ranks. The majority of his story has stayed in the United States. All of Strong’s decision victories have resulted in unanimous verdicts.
In his professional MMA debut at Fury FC 48, he faced Cameron Smotherman and defeated him via unanimous decision. Strong also defeated Geno Shedov via TKO in the third round at Fury FC 59. Then at Excite Fight Muckleshoot Fight Night 4, he defeated Anthony Zender via technical knockout in the first round. Strong defeated Daniel Gonzales at Fury FC 77 via TKO in round three. He defeated Francisco Obando via unanimous decision at Fury FC Challenger Series 6. At Excite Fight Mucklefoot Fight Night 8 Strong defeated Raymond Smith via technical knockout in the first round. He defeated Gabriel Echavarry at Fury FC 92 via unanimous decision. Strong defeated Landon Taylor via unanimous decision to score his fourth decision win as a professional at Excite Fight Mucklefoot Fight Night 10, He defeated Ali Wasuk via TKO in the fourth round at BFL 82 Night of Champions to earn the fifth knockout victory of his professional career and win number nine overall in the process as a professional mixed martial artist.
Strong was selected to be a part of The Ultimate Fighter season 34 castmate at bantamweight and was the seventh male pick of Team Cormier. In his quarterfinal’s matchup on the show, he defeated Marlon Jones via unanimous decision to advance to the semi-finals. Stateside or international, Strong has shown to be a dangerous draw the deeper that he becomes immersed and taps into surrounding strengths from a home chore or away assignment!
