![Article in thesun.co.uk on the kind of training Tom did.
Warrior’s Quest
BRITISH actor Tom Hardy bulked up and got in to the best shape of his life so he could convince as a fighter in the excellent Mixed Martial Arts film Warrior.
In this MMA answer to Mark Wahlberg’s The Fighter, Hardy plays Tommy Conlon, a former marine who never recovered from having an alcoholic father (Nick Nolte) and coming from a broken home. So Tommy turns to fighting to earn money for the family of a fallen comrade and get the demons out of his head.
To understand what he went through, reporter Jessica Mellor was invited to train like Hardy with British kickboxer turned MMA fighter Khalid Ismail.
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But the burning question is: Who would win in a fight – Tom Hardy in Warrior or Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter?
Khalid laughed: “Ooh, I think Tom Hardy would,”
“Just even on the sprawls – he would take him down and sort him out.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzqnk8hOLb1qde7iyo1_500.jpg)
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Article in thesun.co.uk on the kind of training Tom did.
Warrior’s Quest
BRITISH actor Tom Hardy bulked up and got in to the best shape of his life so he could convince as a fighter in the excellent Mixed Martial Arts film Warrior.
In this MMA answer to Mark Wahlberg’s The Fighter, Hardy plays Tommy Conlon, a former marine who never recovered from having an alcoholic father (Nick Nolte) and coming from a broken home. So Tommy turns to fighting to earn money for the family of a fallen comrade and get the demons out of his head.To understand what he went through, reporter Jessica Mellor was invited to train like Hardy with British kickboxer turned MMA fighter Khalid Ismail.
…. [full text here]…
But the burning question is: Who would win in a fight – Tom Hardy in Warrior or Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter?
Khalid laughed: “Ooh, I think Tom Hardy would,”
“Just even on the sprawls – he would take him down and sort him out.”
