Justin Wren signs with Bellator MMA, debuts August 28th
Justin Wren was a member of the Ultimate Fighter Season 10, who has spent five years away from professional MMA, s now to set to return, this time in Bellator MMA.
Justin Wren was a member of the Ultimate Fighter Season 10, who has spent five years away from professional MMA, s now to set to return, this time in Bellator MMA.
Heavyweight Justin Wren has ended a five-year absence from mixed martial arts and will return to competition on Aug. 28 when he takes on Josh Burns at Bellator 141 in Temecula, Calif.
Wren, a cast member on Season 10 of the UFC’s “The Ultimate Fighter,” is perhaps best known for his work with the Mbuti Pygmies in the Congo. Many of them were enslaved and lived in squalor, with few benefits of the modern world.
Wren has written a book on his experience with the Pygmies, “Fight for the Forgotten: How a Mixed Martial Artist Stopped Fighting for Himself and Started Fighting for Others.” The book, co-authored by veteran MMA journalist Loretta Hunt, will be released on Sept. 15.
He will be fighting for the first time since July 17, 2010, when he submitted Josh Robertson in Biloxi, Miss. .