I won the national ground fighting tournament (under Yawara ryu as we didn't have our own banner), i won a couple of novice submissions fighting tournaments, i won in Millenium brawl II my first pro no holds barred fighting tournament (got my ass kicked in the next one by a monster
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I was helping teach a new branch of MMA under Chris Bacon in manchester and managed to become generally a "considered opponent" i.e. won enough fights to be "ranked" in name.... we don't have belts in MMA and didn't have a forman ranking system, i got my name in which is better than "A fighter from X club"
Damian