Perth: Former England captain Adam Hollioake is the first and only international cricketer to have taken up Mixed Martial Arts. Twelve years after he captained England, Hollioake was declared bankrupt when a family property business was liquidated, leaving him with loads of debt.


Adam Hollioake, the Mixed Martial artist 

The timing coincided with him entering the cage for some big-money mixed martial arts fights. Hollioake, however remains adamant that he does MMA because he loves it. "I love fighting, I always have. In fact, my family was against me taking up MMA, but I did because I enjoy fighting, and I'm quite good at it too," Hollioake told mid-day yesterday.