Record : 3 - 0 - 0 (Win – Loss – Draw)
Wins : 2 Submissions ( 100 %)
Association: ZT Fight Skool
Oli Thompson was a big name with the UK public before entering MMA with an illustrious career as the former holder of ‘Britian’s Strongest Man’. During his time as a strongman he competed in world championships and grand prix’s around the world gaining much media attention through TV appearances on the strongman show’s. His career was brought to an end however from a bad injury (a severe bicep tear whilst weight lifting) and this plagued him throughout 2008 until he had to make the difficult decision to quit.
However strongman competitions loss became MMA’s gain as around the time of his injury Thompson started to train in BJJ at the Brazilian Top Team school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, Bst MMA and BTT Slough with Ze Marcelo. After catching the bug he became more active in his training and eventually he settled with his current gym ZT fightschool where he really started to fine tune his skill’s as an all rounder with the view of competing as a Pro.
In March of 2009 Thompson had his first professional fight at ZT fightnight against Ashley Pollard. Thompson made his debut a win by mean’s of a Arm-Triangle Choke. For his second bout a rematch was made with Pollard in which he Thompson submitted Pollard again, but this time with punches.
Thompson brings to MMA a vast amount of knowledge around the conditioning required to be a top athlete and it goes without saying he knows about all their is to know when it comes to developing core strength .
How Thompson will get on with the level of competition he will meet in this tournament remains to be seen, but that is not to write him off, he could well go all the way as we our yet to see him pushed. This will be his chance to make that big impression and for man as driven as Oli Thompson I don’t think we will see anything less then 100% from this fighter.
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