{"id":139874,"date":"2022-09-21T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tom-hardy-proves-real-life-tough-guy-with-surprise-victory-in-uk-jiu-jitsu-open-contest"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:08:12","slug":"tom-hardy-proves-real-life-tough-guy-with-surprise-victory-in-uk-jiu-jitsu-open-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tom-hardy-proves-real-life-tough-guy-with-surprise-victory-in-uk-jiu-jitsu-open-contest","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy Proves Real-Life Tough Guy With Surprise Victory In UK Jiu-Jitsu Open Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hardy Dave J Hogan\/Getty ImagesTom Hardy, the star of Venom, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road, has proved his combat skills are not screen-made, with an impressive victory in a real-life martial arts competition.On Saturday September 17, the actor entered the UMAC Milton Jeynes Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open at the Oakgrove Sports Hall in Milton Keynes in the UK.One of his opponents admitted to feeling a little starstruck when he saw who he would be fighting, but The Direct website reported him saying afterwards that Hardy told him, &#8220;Forget it&#8217;s me and do what you would normally do.&#8221;Not only did Hardy compete, but he won first place in his Division (MALE GI \/ BLUE \/ MASTER 3 (41+)). This division puts him at a high-level Blue Belt, which is the 2nd ranking color out of five (Black Belt being the highest).The spokesman of organizers Ultimate Martial Arts Championships, said afterwards:&#8220;Everyone recognized him but he was very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hardy, the star of Venom, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road, has proved his combat skills are not screen-made, with an impressive victory in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,161,19,58],"class_list":["post-139874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-celebrities","tag-combat-sports","tag-entertainment","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}