Tom Hardy is a certified badass. That’s what Cobra Kai’s Johnny Lawrence would think. Back in 2011, before the actor would become the Batman villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, the actor would show off his physical prowess in the Mma drama Warrior. The Hollywood Reporter now reports that the Venom actor recently made a surprise appearance at the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship and entered the tournament under his real name, Edward Hardy.

The tournament was held at a high school gym located in Milton Keynes, England. The contest did not advertise his appearance, and when Hardy showed up, the audience was in for a big surprise. In Warrior, Hardy played a character named Tommy Conlon, who was a military vet that seemingly came out of nowhere to nearly win a mixed-martial arts tournament. Hardy would go on to pull off the same feat in real life, only this time,...