Despite a career built with limited means, Cédric Severac has steadily honed his martial arts skills over the past twenty years. A spectacular boxer with great punching power, he intends to showcase his progress at HEXAGONE MMA 10 on July 28th.

“If I wrote a book about my career, people wouldn’t even believe me.”
At the age of 39, Cédric Severac’s sporting life is brimming with anecdotes, each one more memorable than the last. It has to be said that the Castrais native, a pure product of the south-west, has been competing on the French martial arts circuit for over two decades. So of course, he has experienced dozens of highs and lows, especially since in his native region, any sport other than rugby fades into second place..
“This is the rugby capital of the world, and it has always been difficult for fighters. For a while, in the summer, I didn’t have access to an open hall: I used to prepare for major fights in a 9m squared garage! So now, to boost local MMA, I’m purposely training in the area, to show that even if we stay at home, we can still compete with the best teams in the country.”

“My big strength is English boxing”.

Cédric Severac built his career on a shoestring, traveling from one club to the other, sometimes covering over 1,000 kilometers in a day to fight. All while maintaining a day job working on building sites.
“We’d leave in a van on Saturday to fight on Saturday evening, and we’d get back in the night to be back at the site on Monday morning”, he recalled, happy to have lived through an unimaginable era for today’s young guns. “It all demanded an enormous amount of sacrifice, but I did it out of passion.”
Attracted to combat sports since his teenage years, Cédric Severac has never wanted to confine himself to a single discipline. Boxing, Muay Thaï, kempo, bare knuckle… The southerner has evolved according to his desires at the time, building a good striker’s style in the process.
“My big strength in MMA is English boxing. I can put an elephant out with my right! On the other hand, for a long time I was lacking in my wrestling and ground skills. But I’m correcting that, and it’s going much better.”
Severac is ready for a new challenge.