Career

Jess Liaudin was born in France and after initially training in Judo and Karate, he became a well-rounded fighter by adding Muay Thai, Kick-Boxing and different forms of grappling and submission wrestling in a fighting career that extends back over 20 years and 80+ amateur & professional fights in Brazil, Japan, USA, Thailand and UK.

He moved to USA in the 90's and competed in regional Kickboxing tournaments (becoming the South East USA Champion in 1993), when he saw one of the first UFC tournaments on cable tv and was instantly hooked by MMA.

Since then, Jess has developed into an extremely versatile fighter. In 2001, he won silver medals in the European Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and UK Sambo Championships, and was also crowned Knock Down Sport Budo International Champion.

Since 2003, Jess has been one of the leading UK-based MMA fighters - winning the European Cage Combat Middleweight Championship, and starting his relationship with the Cage Rage Championship. He is a 5 times veteran of the UK's premier cage-fighting competition and his fight record reads like a who's-who of the welterweight scene with contests against: Shonie Carter, Paul Daley, Abdul Mohamed, Paul Jenkins, Hidetaka Monma and Ross Mason.

Jess is a top 3 ranked UK welterweight and will be announcing a very exciting fight deal within the next few weeks. He also is Head Instructor of his own MMA Academy in London and the Pancrase London MMA fight team.