1.   TEENAGE karate champion Nicky Pearce has officially retired from fighting competitions due to an old elbow injury and is now passing on his talents to his team.

2.   Blanks claims he is a seven-time world karate champion.

3.   A karate champion fought a sumo champion?

4.   He was a karate champion.

5.   He was not the seven-time world karate champion.

6.   The Belgian-born star is a former European middleweight karate champion.