Jeremy Pender Balancing Rankings Across Weight Divisions
At 38, Jeremy Pender has settled into a familiar routine at Vision MMA in Cincinnati. Standing five feet ten inches tall and fighting under the nickname Ponyboy, he carries the wear of a fighter who has shared the cage in two weight classes. Pender splits time between flyweight and bantamweight, a choice dictated as much by opportunity as by the ledger of wins and losses on his record.
Pender enters Saturday’s card with a 19-15 record and a regional ranking that tells its own story. He sits at number 529 in North America and has earned spots in four sub-regional standings—US Southeast, US Midwest, Ohio and Kentucky—by competing at least twice in each of those territories over his last six bouts. In each region, he appears in both weight-class lists, having mixed flyweight and bantamweight fights in his two most recent outings. It is a quietly ambitious résumé, one that reflects a fighter navigating every available door to stay relevant in a crowded field.
