This Month’s MMA Birthdays: Reinier de Ridder Celebrates No. 35

Reinier de Ridder made himself right at home in the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight division. The former two-division ONE Championship titleholder turns 35 on Sept. 7.

De Ridder arrived in the UFC with little to no fanfare in 2024 and proceeded to rattle off four consecutive victories, three of them finishes, to establish himself as a key player at 185 pounds in short order. “The Dutch Knight” kicked off his run inside the Octagon with back-to-back submissions of Gerald Meerschaert and Kevin Holland, then thrashed the heavily hyped and previously unbeaten Bo Nickal before a five-round split decision over ex-champion Robert Whittaker upped his overall record to 21-2. De Ridder now turns his attention to Anthony Hernandez, with their UFC Fight Night 262 headliner set to serve as a potential title eliminator on Oct. 18 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Some of the others in MMA celebrating birthdays during the month of September:

SEPT. 1

Raphael Davis, 49
Timothy Woods, 49
Tim Kennedy, 46
Mike Pierce, 45
Nick Catone, 44
Mikhail Malyutin, 44
D.J. Linderman, 42
Henrique da Silva, 36
Carl Seumanutafa, 36
Fatkhidin Sobirov, 32
Peter Danesoe, 25
Ilimbek Akylbek Uulu, 22

SEPT. 2

Steve Gable, 49
Jeff Curran, 48
Shamil Abdurakhimov, 44
Alessio Sakara, 44
Jake Rosholt, 43
Sean O'Connell, 42
Anthony Durnell, 41
Enrique Marin, 39
Cathal Pendred, 38
Alejandro Perez, 36
Abusupiyan Magomedov, 35
Halil Amir, 31

SEPT. 3

Hidehiko Yoshida, 56
Leo Sylvest, 52
Alexandru Lungu, 51
Brian Cobb, 45
Rene Nazare, 43
Ousmane Thomas Diagne, 42
Daniel Jolly, 41
Robert Morrow, 40
Lorenz Larkin, 39
Jordan Heiderman, 34
Edilania Silva, 23
Eduardo Dutra, 21

SEPT. 4

Jason David Frank, 1973-2022
Bao Quach, 46
Katy Collins, 1987-2019
Rhalan Gracie, 38
Isabela de Padua, 34
Kevin Lee, 33
Humberto Bandenay, 31
Kyra Batara, 31
Stanislav Nanaev, 31
Nicolae Negumereanu, 31
Youssef Zalal, 29
Biaggio Ali Walsh, 27

SEPT. 5

Emmanuel Yarborough, 1960-2015
Tim Hague, 1983-2017
James Brasco, 53
Rob MacDonald, 47
Gray Maynard, 46
Jacob Volkmann, 45
Francis Ngannou, 39
Raquel Pennington, 37
Genah Fabian, 36
Antun Racic, 35
Victor Rodriguez, 33
Werlleson Martins, 30

SEPT. 6

Antonio Graceffo, 58
Masatoshi Abe, 49
Thales Leites, 44
Claudio Silva, 43
Callan Potter, 41
Lynn Alvarez, 40
Handerson Martins, 40
Tarec Saffiedine, 39
Jared Gordon, 36
Jonny Parsons, 34
Lupita Godinez, 32
Michael Stack, 31

SEPT. 7

Patrick Williams, 44
Alan Carlos, 42
Ian Loveland, 42
Pedro Munhoz, 39
Yancy Medeiros, 38
Kevin Aguilar, 37
Joey Elzea, 36
Reinier de Ridder, 35
Artem Frolov, 34
Larissa Pacheco, 31
Javid Basharat, 30
Evelyn Martins, 23

SEPT. 8

John Halverson, 53
Rubens Xavier, 51
Mike Thomas Brown, 50
Chris Tuchscherer, 50
Yasuhiro Urushitani, 49
Kurt Holobaugh, 39
Christian Morecraft, 39
Chris Dempsey, 38
Will Chope, 35
Maryna Moroz, 34
Logan Storley, 33
Cody Haddon, 27

SEPT. 9

Don Richards, 51
Ailton Barbosa, 49
Roger Narvaez, 42
Harris Sarmiento, 42
Jose Aldo, 39
Bobby Green, 39
Kyung Ho Kang, 38
Dong Hyun Ma, 37
Kristina Williams, 36
Yaroslav Amosov, 32
Payton Talbott, 27
Jean Matsumoto, 26

SEPT. 10

Masahiko Kimura, 1917-1993
Sanae Kikuta, 54
Roman Zentsov, 52
Mirko Filipovic, 51
Naoya Uematsu, 47
Cully Butterfield, 36
Mark Martin, 32
Rhys McKee, 30
Jack Della Maddalena, 29
Jakub Wiklacz, 29
Andrey Pulyaev, 28
Jung Hyun Lee, 23

SEPT. 11

Dennis Reed, 58
Chance Farrar, 50
Johnny Sampaio, 50
Andre Winner, 44
Eric Bedard, 41
Cody Gibson, 38
Te Edwards, 35
Allan Nascimento, 34
Robert Hale, 33
Jamey Simmons, 33
Jiawen Ma, 29
Felipe dos Santos, 25

SEPT. 12

Yuki Sasaki, 49
James Irvin, 47
Ray Steinbeiss, 46
Stanislav Nedkov, 44
Mario Rinaldi, 43
Johny Hendricks, 42
Junior dos Santos, 41
Paul Kelly, 41
Rani Yahya, 41
Garry Tonon, 34
Bogdan Guskov, 33
Youcef Ouabbas, 28

SEPT. 13

Yuri Vaulin, 62
Christian Wellisch, 50
Igor Almeida, 46
Marcus Sursa, 43
Ronald LeBreton Jr., 40
Andy Uhrich, 40
Juan Archuleta, 38
Zach Fears, 37
Tommy Espinosa, 33
Elias Garcia, 33
Evgeniy Morozov, 28
Chase Hooper, 26

SEPT. 14

Antonio Silva, 46
Chris Lozano, 43
Adrian Miles, 42
Dwight Grant, 41
Alexey Stoyan, 41
Mauro Chaulet, 37
Alan Omer, 37
Yuki Motoya, 36
Jose Alday, 34
Gaston Bolanos, 33
Chris Padilla, 30
Melquizael Costa, 29

SEPT. 15

John Marsh, 55
Rick Hawn, 49
Fernando Gonzalez, 42
Kaitlin Young, 40
Jesse Gross, 38
Mike Wilkinson, 38
Horacio Gutierrez, 35
Mike Perry, 34
Marcelo Golm, 33
Alexey Polpudnikov, 33
Delan Monte, 32
Terrance McKinney, 31

SEPT. 16

Roberto Traven, 57
Nobutatsu Suzuki, 48
Pablo Garza, 42
Brandon Halsey, 39
Lucas Montoya, 39
Darius Estell, 37
Ariel Beck, 35
Luis Vargas, 34
Jeremy Kennedy, 33
Wei Xie, 29
Laura Fontoura, 25
Jordan Zebo, 25

SEPT. 17

Michael Guymon, 51
Karl Etherington, 50
Denis Kang, 48
Scott Jorgensen, 43
Hisaki Kato, 43
Sultan Aliev, 41
Sean Holden, 41
Hector Urbina, 38
Loik Radzhabov, 35
Reece McLaren, 34
Tyson Pedro, 34
Joe Pyfer, 29

SEPT. 18

Yuji Hisamatsu, 54
Ryuta Sakurai, 54
Mike Pyle, 50
Abel Trujillo, 42
Felice Herrig, 41
Ashkan Mokhtarian, 40
Tyra Parker, 36
Aren Akopyan, 32
Aleksander Podmarev, 31
Tiani Valle, 31
Ryan Hoover, 27
Dawid Kuczmarski, 23

SEPT. 19

Yoshihiro Takayama, 59
Mark Weir, 58
Heather Clark, 45
Jeremy Jackson, 43
Leandro Issa, 42
Matt Wiman, 42
Lewis Gonzalez, 38
Volkan Oezdemir, 36
Sinjen Smith, 33
Claire Guthrie, 30
Vitor Costa, 25
Juan Pablo Vieira, 22

SEPT. 20

Ryan Jensen, 48
Alex Karalexis, 48
Eric Schafer, 48
Quinn Mulhern, 41
Sarah Kaufman, 40
Khabib Nurmagomedov, 37
Aalon Cruz, 36
George Garcia, 35
Mansour Barnaoui, 33
Marvin Vettori, 32
Svetlana Gotsyk, 29
Riku Yoshida, 25

SEPT. 21

Ronald Jhun, 55
Mario Miranda, 47
Josh Thomson, 47
Gael Grimaud, 46
Bianca Daimoni, 39
Andrei Koshkin, 35
Martin Bravo, 32
Bryan Battle, 31
Ty Gwerder, 31
Junior Tafa, 29
Akbar Abdullaev, 28
Ali Taleb, 28

SEPT. 22

Bob Sapp, 52
Forrest Petz, 50
Takanori Gomi, 47
Fredy Serrano, 46
Shamar Bailey, 43
Bruno Menezes, 40
Chuck O'Neil, 40
Mike de la Torre, 39
Elias Silverio, 39
Vanessa Demopoulos, 37
Corey Anderson, 36
Bailey Schoenfelder, 28

SEPT. 23

Shane del Rosario, 1983-2013
Eugene Jackson, 59
Jason Lambert, 48
Makoto Maeda, 48
Maro Perak, 43
Joe Riggs, 43
Mark O. Madsen, 41
Salamu Abdurahmanov, 33
Kyle Driscoll, 32
Carlos Marques, 31
Aaron Pico, 29
Imran Zhulagov, 28

SEPT. 24

Cristian Binda, 48
Brad Pickett, 47
Sara McMann, 45
Brian Stann, 45
Kris McCray, 44
Roxanne Modafferi, 43
Jose Andres Cortes, 41
Dan Charles, 40
Adam McDonough, 40
Chris Horodecki, 38
Dzhokhar Doshuev, 30
Ismail Kelemetov, 24

SEPT. 25

Todd Gouwenberg, 51
Olavo Belo, 46
Rashad Evans, 46
Allan Weickert, 44
Phil Davis, 41
Jake O'Brien, 41
Chris Daukaus, 36
Honorio Banario, 36
Rodolfo Vieira, 36
Jessica Andrade, 34
Aleksa Camur, 30
Bernardo Sopai, 25

SEPT. 26

Shinobu Aoyama, 52
David Branch, 44
Roger Gracie, 44
Hugo Viana, 43
Martin Zawada, 42
John Dodson, 41
Ross Pearson, 41
Nick Urso, 40
Santiago Ponzinibbio, 39
Dileno Lopes, 38
Tom Breese, 34
Stav Koren, 25

SEPT. 27

Shannon Ritch, 55
Thiago Jambo Goncalves, 45
Karol Bedorf, 42
Sasa Mitrovic, 40
Josh Bacallao, 37
Herman Terrado, 36
Zebaztian Kadestam, 35
Islam Makhachev, 34
Karl Albrektsson, 32
Max Rohskopf, 31
Michael Aswell, 25
An Tuan Ho, 25

SEPT. 28

Mario Sperry, 59
Fedor Emelianenko, 49
Din Thomas, 49
Jeremy Mahon, 46
Eduardo Felipe, 45
Sam Morgan, 44
Justin Ledet, 37
Anthony Gutierrez, 35
Rinat Fakhretdinov, 34
Tony Gravely, 34
Janay Harding, 31
Danny Kingad, 30

SEPT. 29

Jason Riley, 45
James Te Huna, 44
Andre Galvao, 43
Che Mills, 43
Eric Spicely, 39
Alexander Volkanovski, 39
Evgeny Bondar, 36
Niko Price, 36
Asa Ten Pow, 36
Ben Parrish, 33
Collin Huckbody, 31
Joselyne Edwards, 30

SEPT. 30

Herb Dean, 55
Yves Edwards, 49
Latoya Walker, 46
Damacio Page, 43
Scott Holtzman, 42
Neal Ewing, 40
Chris Wade, 38
Natan Levy, 34
Bobby Pallett, 34
Brad Riddell, 34
Diego Silva, 32
Sylwia Juskiewicz, 31