Nelson Returns on Feb. 13

(PRESS RELEASE) -- The 21 year old Icelandic Renzo Gracie black belt, Gunnar Nelson, will be returning to MMA on February 13th at the UK show BAMMA (British Association of MMA) in London. The young welterweight, who went from BJJ blue to black in only three years, upset the world at the ADCC 2009 in Barcelona by winning the much heavier Jeff Monson and submitting Dave Avellan and taking 4th place in the absolute division. Shortly after that he was awarded his black belt by Renzo Gracie and illustrated his skills three days later by taking the gold at Pan No-Gi.

Gunnar is undefeated in MMA but hasn’t fought MMA since September 2008 when he KO’ed Iran Mascarenhas. However he will without a doubt be looking for his 6th straight MMA win against his opponent, the Judo black belt Sam Elsdon, who is also undefeated in his MMA career and won an eight-man tournament last year.