I was a notorious football hooligan and beat up my own mate by accident – now I have a career in MMA

FORMER football hooligan Dante Hawkins has put his days in the Tottenham firm behind him to become an MMA fighter.

The 33-year-old had his first football fight aged just 14 and swiftly rose up the firm.

Dante Hawkins joined the Tottenham firm as a teenager

Hawkins rose his way up the ranks and even appeared on a BBC documentary

Hawkins even featured in a BBC documentary about football hooliganism, and received a three-year banning order from games at 17.

Thinking he was scrapping with a Chelsea fan, Hawkins once mistakenly punched a pal from his own firm.

Asked about getting into it with one of his own while appearing on Anything Goes With James English, he said: “I have yeah. To be fair, I done that to one of my pals, one of the young lot.

“I did feel bad about it after but I didn’t know who he was, it was a bit dark. I did feel sorry for him.

“I did actually think he was Chelsea. I was hitting him, going ‘you Chelsea c***’, bang, bang, bang and the whole time it was him.

“I felt bad about it after I’m not gonna lie, I did. But we’re still mates, but I wish it was a Chelsea geezer, I was gutted.”

Hawkins ditched the hooligan lifestyle following a spell in prison and has since turned to MMA.

He goes by the name “The Bull” and has compiled a 4-1 record, with his last three fights coming on Raged MMA cards.

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Further reminiscing about his hooligan days, Hawkins admitted that he liked it when Spurs would get trounced.

He added: “Tottenham used to lose all the time, it used to be a lot more volatile.

“And I’d like it because we’d lose like 4-0 to [Manchester] United and there’d be 100 people in the street wanting it to go off.

“It would be more of a laugh, but when you won people came out more jolly.”