Hot boys always have the attention. Especially when they were almost successful. I've known him (not logically, but in the internet) him as a model after he appear several time on my tumblr dashboard. Meet Nick Bateman - model, actor, producer and a martial artist.
Born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada on November 18, 1986 with the name NIcholas Kevin Stanley Yunge-Bateman, started practicing karate at the age 4 with the dream of becoming the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. While the dream didn't pan out, many others did for this four time Martial Arts World Champion, International model, television and film star.
In 1999, he focus on martial arts when he begancompeting at the world level. At just 17 years old, he was induced into the WKU Hall of Fame as Competitor of the Year and won two Sport Martial Arts Viewer's Choice Awards. He then began performing in televised martial arts events using weapons and choreographed fight scenes with Sideswipe, a performance team that combines martial arts with dance and gravity-defying acrobatics.
He then competed at the 2004 ESPN International Best of the Best Martial Arts competition in Miami where he placed second against 10 world champions. While competing at the event, a Model Universe competition happened to be held at the same venue. As a joke, his friend signed him up and ended up placing fifth out of 100 models. His modeling career took him to Milan, Germany, New York and Miami. Since then, Bateman has graced the covers of over 100 New York times bestselling Harlequin novels (Hey, that's why he looked familiar! I read those!)
In 2006, he shifted focus and moved to British Columbia to take a business program at Capilano University in Vancouver. Upon graduating in 2008, he moved back to his hometown of Burlington and opened his own karate school called Bateman Martial Arts Academy. He continued to model on the side and became the face of FILA Canda for the 2010-2012 campaigns. He also starred in few film and to this days, still acts as mentor to his international martial arts weapon students, most notably Trace Megellas who now holds 14 World Titles and will be opening his own Karate School next year in Dallas, Texas.
For more interesting fact, you can visit his own website
For more interesting fact, you can visit his own website
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