Kevin Andre Jackson (born November 25, 1964)[1] is an American retired freestyle and folkstyle wrestler, and mixed martial artist.

In 1992 he won an Olympic gold medal in wrestling and was invited to join "Team Foxcatcher", but was let go the next year when John du Pont started getting paranoid delusions and did not want anything black in his estate, from cars to horses to people.

Soon after, Jackson won two Pan American Games titles and was a member of World Championship teams for the United States in both 1993 and 1995.

Jackson participated in mixed martial arts in 1997, when he joined the Ultimate Fighting Championship to become only the 2nd Olympic Gold medalist wrestler to step in the octagon,[6] eventually winning the UFC 14 Light Heavyweight tournament.

[5] In June 2017 Kevin went back to the Olympic Training Center as a US National Team Freestyle development coach and launched the Elite Accelerated Program (EAP).