“I tell people all the time, I was just a novelty.” He shrugs. “Just a novelty.”



The winningest cage fighter of all time — just a novelty? No, that must be a joke. In all of mixed martial arts history, few careers have felt more like an impossibility. A fight game singularity.



His Wikipedia page? Pugilistic crack. A rabbit hole down which hours can be lost. Staring and scrolling, scrolling and staring. Trying to grasp the sport’s most unrepeatable feat. Because what Travis Fulton did was alien. No other person in the history of the world has managed to amass 150 MMA fights. He’s at 320 and counting, a first without a close second. So preposterous is his run, if he would’ve stopped and walked away in 2004, he’d still have 100 more wins than the second-most active fighter even has fights.



That’s how he wanted it, though. Yes, “The Ironman” made his mind up long ago that he was going...