Jeff Curran (born September 2, 1977) is an American retired professional mixed martial artist.
Curran started his path towards mixed martial arts with Karate and Tae Kwon Do when he was five years old.
[citation needed] Curran holds a rank of fourth-degree black belt under Pedro Sauer.
After fifteen victories in sixteen fights, Curran fought Urijah Faber for the WEC featherweight championship.
[5] After losing four consecutive fights in the WEC, it was announced on October 20, 2009, that Curran had signed a two-fight contract with North American promotion Strikeforce.
He made his debut for the organization as a part of the preliminary card on their November 7 event, Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers, in Chicago, winning over Dustin Neace by submission in the first round.
The film will be about his difficult road to try to make it back to the WEC after 4 consecutive losses to, at the time, top 5 fighters in his weight class.
However, in the days leading up to the event, Curran was forced out for personal reasons and was replaced by Dillard "Joe" Pegg.
[25][26] Jeff opened up his own gym facility in 2018, where he was coaching Felice Herrig for her comeback but was forced to close it in 2020 due to financial complications resulting from COVID-19.