The Vancouver Sun has an interview with one of the best MMA fighters that most Americans have never heard of, Dennis Kang:

Kang, who turns 31 today, won’t be fighting on tonight’s UFC Fight Night card on Spike TV, nor will he be on the next one. But he’s been just about everywhere else a professional mixed martial arts card might be held, including some foreign promotions that the purists say feature better fighters than those seen in the well-paid world of UFC.

Currently, Kang fights in South Korea’s Spirit MC (where he’s the heavyweight champ) and the Japanese DREAMS promotion, just the latest of the more than 22 different fight organizations he’s touched gloves in since he debuted in the 1998 Ultimate Warrior Challenge in Vancouver (back in the days before city council decided to put MMA in the too-hard basket).

Kang is 23-3 in his last 26 fights, he’s attained his black belt in jiu-jitsu, and he trains with Montreal’s UFC world welterweight champion, Georges St. Pierre, one of the world’s best fighters on a pound-for-pound basis; not bad for a kid from North Vancouver.

King Kang on the rise @ Vancouver Sun