He had a similar build and style to Brock Lesnar with nearly as good wrestling credentials, but never lived up to his initial (well-deserved) hype.
He's only competed 3 times in the last 7 years, and we haven't heard much of him since his KO loss to Antonio Silva at K-1 in '06. Sherdog shows his last fight was Aug. '08, a KO of Alexandru Lungu at Strike FC 2.
http://sherdog.com/fighter/Tom-Erikson-312
Is he still competing?
^Yeah, that was a pointless fight.
used to post here and probably will soon
ttt for the Big Cat
ttt
he was a freak of nature for his time...imagine what a young erickson training at ATT could have become!
Brock is erickson 2.0
He never had a team or training partners, and always took fights on short notice....
He was ducked like crazy back in the day. To the point he had to go fight K-1 to earn a paycheck which obviously wasn't his discipline. So he didn't fare as well as in pure MMA, where for several years he had a hard time finding willing opponents.
He basically was the gen 1 version of Lesnar. But time catches up with everybody eventually.
TTT for the Big Cat.
I`m not sure if Tom never had a team,he was part of the RAW Team.
Tough SOB!
He has to be in his 40's now!