Matthew Manners

Matthew Manners (born August 7, 1991) is a English mixed martial artist and kickboxer He has a Boxing Background Winning Many small championships. He moved over to mixed martial artist Where he fights with a Grapples style. He first competed in AMMA in 2008 turning pro in 2012.

Boxing
Manners first started boxing at a young age but give it up to spend more time playing rugby. How ever after school Manners stopped playing Rugby to train as a chef. At this time he returned to boxing. Training inbetween working hours. After a SemiPro rules boxing bout Manners joined Ec1 Martial Arts training Boxing Kickboxing Judo And teakwondo. After a few months Manners moved to Kickboxing. And ended his Boxing career Amateur 74-0-2 Semi Pro 9-0

AmateurKickboxing
Manners had Draw in his first fight. Getting hit with leg kicks in all three rounds. He would come back strong winning his next eleven. At 11-0-1 Manners Would move his training to Archway martial arts and kickboxing.

Grappling
Manners would enter several Wresting, Judo, Bjj, and NoGI tornaments. After doing well Manners felt it was the right time to give MMA a run

Amateur MMA
Manners would have his first Interclub bout in 2008 Manners would win Tko leg kicks. Manners would lose the second and third but submission both times. Manners would not fight again for 6 months Training for his next fight. Manners would return to win his next sixteen. His full amateur career was 17-2

Going PRO
Manners Turned pro early 2012. He was set to fight at Extreme Brawl March 3ed 2012 But the show was called off. He would then Début April 7th 2012 at UCMMA 27. Fighting Scott Saward. Manners would lose by TKO in round one. Manners returned to Amateur mma fighting under semipro rules and fight pro kickboxing under k1 rules

K1
Manners would compete in a K1 rules bout going the distance. Winning by points. Manners would go on a fight tour round london.

Back To SemiPro
Manners is set to fight Myles Harris at WCMMA 5 on 30th of june 2012