30 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Could Fight!

Hollywood actors, former US presidents and heavy metal guitar players – check out Frontkick’s guide to Celebrities who can fight for real!

Robert DeNiro – Actor

Legendary actor Robert DeNiro trained hard for his Oscar winning role as the boxing champion Jake LaMotta in biographical sports drama Raging Bull.

While he was preparing for the role, De Niro spent months of physical training and even took part in three real boxing matches, winning two of them.

LaMotta himself actually believed that De Niro had what it took to make it as a pro boxer.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Football player

Retired football superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic is known to be a MMA fan and has practiced Taekwondo.

With his fantastic physique and athletics, he could most likely been a great cage fighter.

Justin Bieber – Musician

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been training boxing with boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather.

Michael Imperioli – Actor

Michael Imperioli, known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in ’The Sopranos’, trained taekwondo for many years.

Freddie Mercury – Musician

Legendary Queen singer Freddie Mercury was a talented boxer as a kid, however, his parents did not like the violent sport.

Guess life turned out decent for Freddie anyways.

Will Smith – Actor

Will Smith’s boxing scenes in ’Ali’ is probably the best boxing scenes that we ever saw on the white screen. Before the filming, Smith trained with Swedish boxerLuis Lagerman.

On the latest Oscar Award ceremony he also showed proof that he could also be succesful in Power Slap.

Mick Jagger – Musician

Legendary Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger trained judo under George Kerr.

Tom Hardy – Actor

Hollywood superstar Tom Hardy is infact a great fighter already.

Promoted to purple belt in BJJ after a string of successful performances at blue belt, he’s going stroing in competitions all over the place.

Demi Lovato – Musician

American singer, songwriter, and actress Demi Lovato is a BJJ blue belt who started with combat sports in 2016 after falling in love with MMA.

Jessica Alba – Actor

Jessica Alba has trained Taekwondo for various movie roles and as a fun way to stay in shape.

Ashton Kutcher – Actor

Ashton Kutcher wrestled in high school and eventually started training BJJ.

Nowadays, the actor has a brown belt in the sport.

Wiz Khalifa – Musician

The award-winning rapper Wiz Khalifa started training BJJ in 2017.

Adriana Lima – Model

Model Adriana Lima is a huge fight fan and trained in combat sports for a long time.

Former UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk once claimed that the Brazilian model could have done well in the octagon.

Keanu Reeves – Actor

Hollywood star Keanu Reeves trained Jiu-Jitsu, Wushu, Krav Maga, and boxing for his role in The Matrix series.

Dave Murray – Musician

Iron Maiden guitar player Dave Murray was taught boxing by his dad from a young age and was involved in more than a few street fights as a East London youth back in the 70’s.

However, after hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time the young troublemaker picked up a guitar and the rest is heavy metal history.

Extra curiosa is that Maiden’s bass player Steve Harris was aspiring to be a professional footballer and scouted to train for Premier League club West Ham United.

James Caan – Actor

James Caan, best known for his part as Sonny Corleone in the Godfather, trained martial arts for over 30 years, and was a Master in Gosoku Ryu Karate.

He was given the title of Soke Dai by the International Karate Institute.

Dave Mustaine

Megadeth guitar player and singer Dave Mustaine has not only sold 38 million albums and won a Grammy, he also earned a black belt in karate and taekwondo.

Mustaine is a goodwill ambassador to the World Taekwondo Federation.

Sarah Michelle Gellar – Actor

Sarah Michelle Geller, known for her leading role in, Buffy The Vampire Slayer’, is a 1st Dan black belt in taekwondo.

Nicolas Cage – Actor

Oscar awarded actor Nicolas Cage has reportedly been training with BJJ legend Royce Gracie for years.

Ice-T – Musician

Fighting fan Ice-T trained both BJJ and boxing.

Uma Thurman – Actor

According to Uma Thurman herself, she trained three styles of kung fu, two styles of sword fighting, knife throwing, knife fighting, hand-to-hand combat for three months to prepare herself for the role as The Bride in Kill Bill.

Willie Nelson

Besides being a country music legend Willie Nelson is also a black belt in taekwondo.

Naomi Watts

Hollywood actress Naomi Watts has been a judoka for many years, and competed in amateur Judo championships from 1989 to 1992.

Evan Rachel Wood

Actress Evan Rachel Wood, known from Westworld, has a black belt in taekwondo.

David Lee Roth

Van Halen front man David Lee Roth has trained in many different martial arts, like kung fu and karate, and even teaches martial arts classes.

Sean Patrick Flanery

Actor Sean Patrick Flanery, perhaps best known for his part in Boondock Saints, holds a black belt in both karate and BJJ.

Tommy Lee

Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, trained BJJ under the Gracie Family.

Chris Hemsworth – Actor

Chris Hemsworth trained MMA to prepare for his role as Marvel character Thor.

Henry Cavill

Hollywood star Henry Cavill, famous for The Withcer, trains Jiu-Jitsu with the legendary Roger Gracie.

Barack Obama – Former US president

The 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, has practiced taekwondo and earned a green belt.

He was also handed an honorary black belt by former South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.

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