Eryk Anders

Eryk Anders has one of the most improbable resumes in sport. Born on Clark Air Base in the Philippines, he won as a linebacker at Alabama, then reinvented himself as a UFC middleweight. Excelling in two collision-heavy disciplines, football and mixed martial arts, is the kind of thing most athletes could not survive, let alone do at a high level in both. I am always pulled toward people who refuse to be defined by a single arena. Anders reads to me as a pure competitor wired for contact, the sort of relentless, adaptable athlete who treats reinvention as just another rep.

Name (English)

Eryk Anders

Name (Japanese)

エリク・アンダース

Reading

えりく・あんだーす

Born

April 21, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

Origin

Clark Air Base, Philippines

Occupation

American football player / mixed martial arts fighter

High school

Smithson Valley High School

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/erykanders/
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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9

Tags

• American football player
• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.