6 footballers who would have made good MMA fighters

The footballers could have made great UFC fighters

#4 Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Zlatan being Zlatan

“Zlatan doesn’t fear fighting, fighting fears Zlatan”

The next name to pop up on the list belongs to the man with the repertoire of a professional martial arts practitioner.

The 6’5 Swede, with the gift of his martial arts-esque ability to score goals that often elicit surprised responses, can definitely be a force to be reckoned with if he ever tried his luck at Mixed Martial Arts.

Armed with a black belt in Taekwondo that he earned at the age of 17 (in his hometown of Malmo), Ibracadabra also has an honorary black belt from the Italian Taekwondo team!

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the perfect embodiment of size, strength, stamina and speed, spawning a deadly combination of the four variables that go into the making of a top fighter. Ibrahimovic is agile for someone of that stature and despite his age, he never seems to stop!

To top that, the man even knows how to cut promos that would “sell” big in Dana White’s Ultimate Fighting Championship!

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