Pat Curran (born August 31, 1987) is an American mixed martial artist, and a former two-time Bellator Featherweight World Champion. He is the cousin of World Extreme Cagefighting veteran Jeff Curran and fought primarily with Xtreme Fighting Organization (XFO) before signing with Bellator, where he is the winner of Bellator Season Two Lightweight Tournament and the Bellator 2011 Summer Series. He is currently the #15 Featherweight in the world by fightmatrix.com.
Curran went to Olympic Heights Community High School where he was a standout wrestler.
Curran spent much of his youth crafting his skills on the playground with boxing gloves, having knocked out many veterans of the sport including Mark Mawson. Curran was a Florida High School wrestling stand-out who went on to study Brazilian jiu-jitsu with his cousin Jeff Curran at the young age of 17. It was during this summer of training that Curran decided to pursue mixed martial arts as a career. After making his debut in 2008, against and defeating Tony Hervey, a future King of the Cage Lightweight Champion. Curran had his second professional bout against Lazar Stojadinovic, who previously had a dominating performance over Curran's teammate Ben Miller, suffered a broken jaw in the bout at an Extreme Challenge event on January 26, 2008. The bout was featured on the Tapout reality series on the Versus Channel, giving Curran his first mainstream performance.