Carlos Condit
11/12/2011 – Carlos Condit – UFC on Fox – Velasquez vs. Dos Santos – Arrivals – The Honda Center – Anaheim, CA, USA – Photo Credit: richard shotwell / PR Photos
Birth Name: Carlos Joseph Condit
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 26, 1984
Ethnicity: Austrian, German, Cherokee Native American, Mexican [Spanish, Indigenous], possibly other
Carlos Condit is an American mixed martial artist. He competed in World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC), where he was the final Welterweight Champion, in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he was Interim UFC Welterweight Champion, and for both Shootboxing and Pancrase in Japan. He is nicknamed The Natural Born Killer.
He is the son of Camille Prevost and Brian Condit, who was Chieff of Staff for New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. In an interview on Sherdog.com in October 2011, he stated that his grandfather was adopted, and inherited the name Condit. He added that his grandfather was of Austrian, German, and Cherokee Native American descent, while his grandmother was of Spanish-Mexican and Indigenous Mexican descent.
He has a son with his former wife Seager Marie McCullah.
He is part (or descendant) of the White European immigrants, I am from Bolivia (a 75+% indigenous country) but my grandpa was german, so what, we don’t even care, we just know that there’s indigenous, blacks, hyper-whites and whites/spanish … but we don’t over-think about race like people do in United States.
Cheers!
there were many Many MANY waves of migration from europe to mexico. there have been germans, japanese, chinese, french, italian, jewish, escaped african slaves, and the list goes on and on.
my family (mexican) ranges from almost completely indigenous to blonde hair and blue eyed devils. so, we run the gambit. we (like most of america) are truly a mutt culture.
my ancestral home in durango, mex even has a large mennonite community. they live in amish communities and mainly keep to themselves, so they are VERY germanic looking.
BTW they are renowned for their artisan cheeses, a little chorizo folded into they queso is so YUM!
The railroads of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico had mostly Irish workers, (followed in numbers by Chinese workers). Certain regions of Mexico had fairly large numbers of Irish settle within. Mutual Catholicism and a generally non-snobbish nature of these Irish (among other factors, likely) made for a surprisingly smooth integration into the various societies. Look at Danny “Little Red” Lopez and Saul Alvarez and your probably seeing remnant traits from these Irish.
Not sure this is Carlos’ situation though. A previous blogger mentioned Mexican/Irish/French. His mothers maiden name sure sounds French, and his fathers first name is Brian-pretty Irish.
Here’s to Carlos-whatever his heritage-taking it to the next and highest level.
Mexico like the US is very diverse. Yeah it was conquered by the Spanish but there are also asians African and middle eastern people that settled in Mexico. That’s why Mexicans look different and have different surnames.
Do you have a link?