STORY

I am 28 years old and I was born and raised among six(6) brothers and sisters in Uddevalla, Sweden. I have been a professional MMA athlete since 2010 and I did my long awaiting debut in the Octagon on September 3rd. at UFC Fight Night i Hamburg against Scott Askham.

As a young boy I tried all kind of sports in my home town but there was only one sport that I really fell in love with, Wrestling. I was alright in wrestling but due to inconsistency in my training I never reach my full potential. But still I´ve learned a lot from my wrestling club Uddevalla Atletklubb over the ten(10) years I trained there.

And just as much as they learned me how to wrestle they where like a family to me, and raised me into the athlete and person I am today. In the end of my wrestling years I was curious about another sport that I had discovered, that was Mixed Martial Arts. When I was around 18 years old I started to train a little bit of Muay Thai and some MMA at the local Gym in Uddevalla. At 19 I went to Norway looking for work, I started to work as a sub teacher on a school just outside of Oslo and I also started my search for a place where I could train MMA. I started to train under Ståle Nyang in skårerhallen, Lørenskog, just outside of Oslo. Later I started to train under Mohsen Bahari at Frontline Academy who introduced me to Joachim Hansen and "Team Hellboy". I felt so lucky to be able to train with such a legend as Joachim where, who by far is the biggest star of Norwegian MMA. I went back to Sweden for a short period of time but couldn´t get any work in Uddevalla so I decided to go back to Oslo and shortly after I started working at a pet store in a shopping mall, as a true animal lover this job was made for me. By this time I was 20 years old and I really started taking MMA seriously, I knew that MMA was my destiny. My path into the world of professional MMA started in 2010 with a title fight in "East Coast Fight Factory" against the defending champion, Chris Greig, which I won.

After a couple years with "Team Hellboy" we moved our training location to Frontline Academy in Oslo. Later some of us went to other gyms and some of the guys started their own gyms. And some of us are still going strong in the Pro-Team at Frontline Academy Oslo today. When I fight I represent this team with glory and pride, without this solid team I will not achieve greatness.

So far I have 14-2 in my pro career and 1-0 in the UFC. I hold the Middleweight Championship in ECFF (East Coast Fight Factory), WFS (Warrior Fight Series) and CWFC (Cage Warriors).
You can see more stats on my: Sherdog-profile

In my part of the world it has been a little discussion whether I represent my birth country, Sweden or my current country where I have been living for the last 8 years, Norway. When I enter any cage I represent 9,6 million Swedes and 5,1 million Norwegians with all my heart! How can that be you may wonder? It´s pretty easy and when you think about it I believe everybody can understand why. Both countries have been given me over-whelming a lot of love. Sweden gave me my beautiful family, Sweden gave me my first community, Sweden gave me a beautiful up bringing with my brothers and sister and friends in my hometown Uddevalla, Sweden gave me wrestling. Norway gave me a job and a home, Norway gave me the love of my life. Norway gave me the opportunity to be great in MMA! As you can see, I have been blessed with good things in both countries!

I can identify myself with both Norwegians and Swedes and I believe that they can identify them self with me. I truly love both communities I have come a crossed so far on my path. So to every 14,7 million human beings in my community - I got your back, every single one of you, so I hope that you have mine every time I enter the Octagon!

Here are some words that I wrote about every bout that I have fought.