Tom Hardy enters a martial arts tournament by surprise, and wins!

The attendees of a Jiu-Jitsu tournament took a great surprise when they saw the actor Tom Hardy enter to compete as one of the participants.

It is that as the English newspaper reports Daily Mailthe actor of “venom” Y “Peaky Blinders” He is a blue belt in this discipline.

The Briton has always been considered a method actor. I mean, he goes to extreme lengths to play any role. It’s like getting ready for the movie “warrior” (2011) met this martial art and, 11 years later, continues to train it.

From the production of the martial arts event they knew weeks ago that the actor would participate in the event. However, they decided to keep it a secret so that the great masses of people who might see it would distract him and ruin his performance.

This was not enough so that the actor’s presentation was not leaked and some decided to participate to face him. Andy Leatherland, 42, was the one who faced the former Batman villain in the grand finale: “I would fight him again, absolutely.”

The semifinalist mentioned that he joined the event after learning that the actor would participate in the championship, as he noticed that it was registered with his first name, Edward Hardy: “I made a mistake and he used it in his favor. He hit the nail on the head and I reduced, and that’s where it ended relatively quickly.”

It is not the first time that Hardy has won gold in this discipline. Well, in August of this year the artist won double gold at the REORG Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship, also held in England.

The actor was chosen in 2021 as one of the most beloved actors by the British public, surpassing legends such as Sean Connery (“James-Bond”) and Anthony Hopkins (“The silence of the inocents”). In addition to being chosen in 2018 by Glamor magazine as the sexiest man in the world.