These pictures sure do pack a punch! UFC 支持する/優勝者 Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson flaunts his 削減(する) abs in sexy shirtless photoshoot for V Magazine

  • Thompson, 34, 調印するd with IMG Models in August
  • He is also 階級d as number two by UFC in the welterweight class
  • Starring in his first fashion shoot, he said that he's excited for the limelight because he wants to be a 'good example' and '肯定的な 影響(力)'
  • When he's not fighting in the (犯罪の)一味, Thompson teaches children 十分な-time at his father's karate studio in South Carolina

One popular UFC 支持する/優勝者 has something new in ありふれた with Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, and Ashley Graham ― and no, it's not Ronda Rousey, though that's a good guess.

Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson 調印するd with modeling 機関 IMG this summer, and has just 提起する/ポーズをとるd for his first-ever fashion story?for V Magazine.

When it comes to the 着せる/賦与するs, though, the hunky 34-year-old from South Carolina went the いっそう少なく-is-more 大勝する, showing off his 最高の-トンd abs, pecs, and 武器 in the sexy 編集(者)の.

Working it! Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson poses for his first-ever fashion story for V Magazine

Working it! Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson 提起する/ポーズをとるs for his first-ever fashion story for V Magazine

Doing double duty: The hunky 34-year-old signed with IMG this summer

Doing 二塁打 義務: The hunky 34-year-old 調印するd with IMG this summer

It's やめる appropriate that his first fashion shoot was for V Magazine, since the professional 闘士,戦闘機 does such a good 職業 showing off those V-形態/調整d muscles of his lower abs.?

発射 by 伝説の photographer Bruce Weber, Thompson had the chance to debut his 提起する/ポーズをとるing 技術s すぐに after 調印 his modeling 契約 in August.

And he's excited for the new attention that his second career will bring him: 'To be out there in the light, that's what I like to call it ― the light ― that's what I want.?

'To 始める,決める a good example and be a 肯定的な 影響(力) for any of the people who will look up to me, like you said, the women and also the men. Yes, I think I'm 用意が出来ている,' he said.

But though he is only just sta rting out in the fashion world, he's already at the 最高の,を越す of his game in 戦争の arts. Thompson, who is 階級d number two in for UFC welterweights, is 始める,決める to fight Jorge Masvidal at Madison Square Garden on November 4th.

Top man: Thompson (pictured fighting Tyron Woodley in March) is ranked as number two by UFC in the welterweight class

最高の,を越す man: Thompson (pictured fighting Tyron Woodley in March) is 階級d as number two by UFC in the welterweight class

Gearing up: He?is set to fight Jorge Masvidal at Madison Square Garden on November 4th

Gearing up: He?is 始める,決める to fight Jorge Masvidal at Madison Square Garden on November 4th

Good guy: He is excited to be in the limelight with his modeling and hopes to be a positive influence

Good guy: He is excited to be in the limelight with his modeling and hopes to be a 肯定的な 影響(力)

So far, he doesn't seem to have 設立する too much trouble mixing his two 職業s ― though it's possible 黒人/ボイコット 注目する,もくろむs and bruises 支えるd in the (犯罪の)一味 may make a photo editor's 職業 to ugh in the 未来.

Thompson said that for him, those 傷害s aren't such a big 取引,協定 while he's getting them, though they definitely smart later on.

'When you're out there in the octagon and you've got thousands of people, millions across the world, either 元気づける for you to 勝利,勝つ or 元気づける for you to get knocked out, the adrenaline is going, so it doesn't 傷つける while you're out there,' he said. 'Now 急速な/放蕩な 今後 to about an hour and a half to two hours after the fight? Oh yes. It's pretty painful.'

He's had years to get used to it.?Thompson has been 格闘するing since he was a kid, after his dad?Ray Thompson opened?Upstate Karate in South Carolina in 1983. Now, as an adult, he also teaches kids there himself.?

'[My dad] was a 抱擁する fan of Elvis,' he 解任するd. 'Elvis was a seventh-degree 黒人/ボイコット belt in karate. My dad knew that he couldn't dance like Elvis or sing like him, but he thought maybe he could try karate, and he fell in love with it.'

Ouch: He said that adrenaline helps injuries from hurting in the rink, but they are painful later?

Ouch: He said that adrenaline helps 傷害s from 傷つけるing in the rink, but they are pa inful later?

Class act: He started wrestling as a kid and now still teaches at his dad's karate studio in South Carolina

Class 行為/法令/行動する: He started 格闘するing as a kid and now still teaches at his dad's karate studio in South Carolina

Hiya! He used to fight his siblings, and was always beaten by his older sister until knocking her out with a kick

Hiya! He used to fight his siblings, and was always beaten by his older sister until knocking her out with a kick

Thompson and his our siblings all fought a lot growing up ― only they were practicing 戦争の arts, not pulling each other's hair.

When two of the kids would argue, he said, his dad would challenge them to use their 手渡すs, moving the coffee (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する in the living room out of the way so they could duke it out. The only thing that was off-限界s was punching with a の近くにd 握りこぶし.

Thompson was nearly always bested by his older sister Lindsay, until one night when he kicker her and 'knocked the spaghetti supper out of her'.

Now grown up, Thompson 計画(する)s to continue to go by 'Wonderboy,' a 愛称 he earned at age 15 when he 敗北・負かすd a 26-year-old 対抗者.

'After the fight, the announcer asked my 対抗者 how it felt. He answered, "I wonder why I stepped in the (犯罪の)一味 with that boy,"' something the announcer took to and started calling Thompson 'Wonderboy'.

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