Charl   "The Barbarian"   Hurter

Fighters Biography

What do you do for fight preparation?

If there is one thing I have learned throughout my competing career it’s definitely that you have to train like you fight and fight like you train. I do fitness training in the morning and weights midday then MMA training at night. This goes on six days a week, six hours a day.

When and why did you start martial arts training?

There are a few reasons. Firstly I have loved MMA from a very early age, since the first UFC and Pride FC events but never thought of doing it at a later stage in my life. After leaving competitive wrestling one of my good friends (Danie ‘Pit Bull’ van Heerden) saw me at a 4×4 competition and told me I must come and do MMA with him. At first I said no but after a year I started missing wrestling competition so I started MMA in October 2011.