Paul Lazenby

Biography

Height 6' 0¾" (1.85 m) Trivia In 2005, he won the NFC Canadian MMA championship, becoming the first superheavyweight fighter to hold Canadian titles in MMA and Muay Thai at the same time. In 2000, he won the CMTA Canadian Superheavyweight Muay Thai kickboxing championship, and in 2003 unified it with the WKA title to become the undisputed Canadian champion. In 1997, with no prior combat sports experience, he became the first Canadian ever to fight in Japan's "World Pancrase Create" MMA organization. In 1995, took third place at the Canadian Strongman Championships. In 1991, set a national record in the deadlift en route to winning a silver medal at the Canadian Junior Powerlifting Championships, after which he moved to Calgary, Alberta where he trained in pro wrestling at the Hart Brothers camp under WWE/WCW/ECW stars Lance Storm and Chris Jericho. One of the primary figures in the campaign to re-legalize the sport of Mixed Martial Arts in his native Vancouver during its two-year ban in that city between 2007 and 2009. Played the role of one of Stone Cold Steve Austin's opponents in the underground fighting movie "Damage" during the filming of which he suffered a broken nose. Stunt double for former WWE wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin for the movies "The Stranger" and "Hunt to Kill".