Chris Spång

Christopher Lanny Spång (born November 26, 1987) is a Swedish professional mixed martial artist currently fighting for Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) in the Welterweight division. Earlier in his career, Spång competed in the UFC and Strikeforce. Spang's older brother Andreas Spang also competes in MMA.

Mixed martial arts career

Early career

According to his Strikeforce introduction, Spång began fighting at the of age four in a boxing gym with his father, a professional boxer in Sweden. Spang was then a competitive gymnast at age 15.

Spång made his professional MMA debut in October 2008. He won his first three fights all in the first round.

In addition to MMA fighting, Spång has boxed professionally at super middleweight with two decision victories in 2009.

Spång currently works with self-help guru Jacob Harrington for his mental game when preparing for an upcoming match in the cage.

Strikeforce

In September 2011, Spång signed a four fight deal with Strikeforce to fight in their welterweight division.

Spang

Spang is a village in Germany, north of Trier between Bitburg and Wittich. This village was first mentioned in 1254. It is on one side of the Spanger brook while on the other side is the village of Dahlem. These two villages eventually became a single municipality Spangdahlem as they are known today. The locals still refer themselves to being from Spang or Dalhem. After World War II the USAF located a currently operating fighter airbase in the area of Spangdalhem.

Many of the Spang families in the USA, Germany and South America have traced their roots to this area. Generally speaking most people used their first names for identification as surnames where not important for identification. In Germany when someone left their village or city they were known as "name" von (from) village i.e. Joseph von Spang was Joseph from the village of Spang. Over time the von was dropped and the person was now known as Joseph Spang and Spang became their surname. Earliest recorded von Spang was Nicholaus von Spang who married Elizabeth Bernardos (Sic) 18 Jan 1581 in St Gangolf Catholic church in Trier, Germany.

Spang (disambiguation)

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