5 MMA fighters who went to jail

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Christy Mack and War Machine during happier times (* Credits- MMAJunkie) 

#4 Chris ‘The Crippler’ Leben

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Leben mockingly chokes Michael Bisping as Dan Hardy watches them (* Credits- ZUFFA LLC)

Chris ‘The Crippler’ Leben (22-11) is a former WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting) Middleweight (MW) champion, with an MMA base of boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and wrestling.

One of the most notorious steroid-users of his generation, Leben is best known for his antics (urinating on his teammate’s pillow/bed, etc) on the inaugural season of TUF (The Ultimate Fighter), his dyed hair and for getting blown away by Anderson Silva.

Leben is also infamous for his laundry list of run-ins with the law. On April 30th, 2008, he was arrested in Oregon by Clackamas County sheriffs for a DUI charge stemming from a previous incident. He was kept in jail and held without a bond for having previously violated his probation, after which he was sentenced to 35 days in jail.

On October 20th 2010, he was arrested in Honolulu, Hawaii for a suspected DUI after crashing his truck into a wall off of Kapiolani Boulevard. He was released from custody after posting bail. Furthermore, in 2015 Leben was sentenced to 120 days in custody and three years of probation owing to a June break-in at his estranged wife’s house that they previously shared together.

After a one-year stint in jail, Leben has now moved on to the real-estate business.

Chris ‘The Crippler’ Leben and his love of drugs, violence and crime have handed him the fourth spot on our list.

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