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Oliver Enkamp
Miko Eric Oliver Enkamp (born August 10, 1991) is a Swedish mixed martial artist who competes in the Welterweight division. He has previously competed for the UFC and Bellator MMA.
Enkamp grew up with martial arts as his family runs Combat Academy - a martial arts center in Täby - where he himself started training already at a couple of years old. Having a permanent training partner in his brother would pay off and he was, among other things[which?], selected to the Swedish junior national team in karate after traveling around Europe and competing in both kata (his brother Jesse's specialty) and kumite. During the years he was active in karate, he visited Okinawa in Japan several times to learn more directly from the birthplace of karate.
As a teenager, his interests expanded and he started training kickboxing after watching matches in K-1 on Eurosport. At this time, in addition to karate training, the club also had two kickboxing coaches named Anders Carlsson and Roger Wikström who helped him develop and became something of a mentor to Enkamp.
At the same time as the sport of MMA gained momentum, Enkamp became interested in grappling and began training at the club Pancrase Gym to add submissions to its technical register. Shortly afterwards, he started competing in this, which led him to a gold in the SGL - Swedish Grappling League. Oliver attributes his creativity and movement patterns on the ground to all the years he practiced breakdance as a teenager.
As soon as Enkamp graduated from high school, he went to the Tiger Muay Thai facility in Phuket, Thailand to study Muay Thai. He stayed there for nine weeks to train and compete in his first professional Muay Thai match. This match was shared on the Tiger Muay Thai training camp's Youtube channel, where he won with a front kick knockout in the second round.
In 2009, Enkamp received an invitation to the summer camp MMA-Academy and he signed up as the only participant from the club. Once in place, a whole new world opened up for him when he realized how deep one could dive into the technical and tactical aspects of the sport. It was the starting shot for what would be his professional MMA career. In 2010 he started competing in shootfighting (today called MMA class-B) and the following year they introduced Amateur MMA (today called MMA class-A) which he competed successfully in and became the first Swedish champion in 2011 after a six-second KO in the final match. The following year, 2012, he defended his title as Swedish champion in welterweight (-77.1 kg) before he with an amateur result of 14-1 decided to start competing professionally.
Prior to his professional debut, Enkamp went to the Alliance Training Center in San Diego, CA, USA. There he lived upstairs in the gym for two months and trained with i.a. Ross Pearson, Jeremy Stephens, Brandon Vera, Phil Davis and Dominick Cruz. As prepared as he could be, he went since his debut match on March 9, 2013 at IRFA 4 against the Finn Kari Paivinen and won via reverse triangle throttling in the third round.
Before the next match in IRFA, Enkamp played a match at the Scanian organization Trophy MMA's second gala where he 1 June 2013 won his second professional match via rear-naked in the second round against the Swede Erik Greissen. After that, he spent a summer with his brother in Hawaii and visited BJ Penn's gym in Hilo.
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Oliver Enkamp
Miko Eric Oliver Enkamp (born August 10, 1991) is a Swedish mixed martial artist who competes in the Welterweight division. He has previously competed for the UFC and Bellator MMA.
Enkamp grew up with martial arts as his family runs Combat Academy - a martial arts center in Täby - where he himself started training already at a couple of years old. Having a permanent training partner in his brother would pay off and he was, among other things[which?], selected to the Swedish junior national team in karate after traveling around Europe and competing in both kata (his brother Jesse's specialty) and kumite. During the years he was active in karate, he visited Okinawa in Japan several times to learn more directly from the birthplace of karate.
As a teenager, his interests expanded and he started training kickboxing after watching matches in K-1 on Eurosport. At this time, in addition to karate training, the club also had two kickboxing coaches named Anders Carlsson and Roger Wikström who helped him develop and became something of a mentor to Enkamp.
At the same time as the sport of MMA gained momentum, Enkamp became interested in grappling and began training at the club Pancrase Gym to add submissions to its technical register. Shortly afterwards, he started competing in this, which led him to a gold in the SGL - Swedish Grappling League. Oliver attributes his creativity and movement patterns on the ground to all the years he practiced breakdance as a teenager.
As soon as Enkamp graduated from high school, he went to the Tiger Muay Thai facility in Phuket, Thailand to study Muay Thai. He stayed there for nine weeks to train and compete in his first professional Muay Thai match. This match was shared on the Tiger Muay Thai training camp's Youtube channel, where he won with a front kick knockout in the second round.
In 2009, Enkamp received an invitation to the summer camp MMA-Academy and he signed up as the only participant from the club. Once in place, a whole new world opened up for him when he realized how deep one could dive into the technical and tactical aspects of the sport. It was the starting shot for what would be his professional MMA career. In 2010 he started competing in shootfighting (today called MMA class-B) and the following year they introduced Amateur MMA (today called MMA class-A) which he competed successfully in and became the first Swedish champion in 2011 after a six-second KO in the final match. The following year, 2012, he defended his title as Swedish champion in welterweight (-77.1 kg) before he with an amateur result of 14-1 decided to start competing professionally.
Prior to his professional debut, Enkamp went to the Alliance Training Center in San Diego, CA, USA. There he lived upstairs in the gym for two months and trained with i.a. Ross Pearson, Jeremy Stephens, Brandon Vera, Phil Davis and Dominick Cruz. As prepared as he could be, he went since his debut match on March 9, 2013 at IRFA 4 against the Finn Kari Paivinen and won via reverse triangle throttling in the third round.
Before the next match in IRFA, Enkamp played a match at the Scanian organization Trophy MMA's second gala where he 1 June 2013 won his second professional match via rear-naked in the second round against the Swede Erik Greissen. After that, he spent a summer with his brother in Hawaii and visited BJ Penn's gym in Hilo.