Elvis Sinosic

Elvis Sinosic (born 13 February 1971) is a retired Australian professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Sinosic also competed in the Cage Rage Championships, K-1, and Pancrase.

He is currently a political candidate for the Libertarian Party, contesting Bass Hill Ward on Canterbury Bankstown City Council in the 2024 New South Wales local elections.

Biography
Sinosic was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, to Croatian immigrant parents, and now resides in Sydney, New South Wales. He currently owns and runs Kings Academy of Martial Arts (formerly Sinosic Perosh Martial Arts SPMA ) as well as UFC Gym Macarthur Square. Elvis ran SPMA with business and training partner Anthony Perosh for 16 years before Elvis and Anthony split the Academy. Sinosic was exposed to a myriad of art forms including: Wrestling, Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, Kali, Silat, Muay Thai, Capoeira, Judo, Shootfighting, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Elvis was also the first BJJ Pan-Pacific Absolute Champion at the Inaugural event 1999. Elvis worked on the Fox Sports Australia Fight Week. Elvis has been running Kings Academy

Mixed martial arts career
Considered to be a pioneer of Australian mixed martial arts, Sinosic fought on the first ever Australian MMA show, Caged Combat. Mr Sinosic competed for and won the first ever Australian MMA title, the Australian Vale Tudo Heavyweight Championship. He was also the first Australian to fight for a nominal World Title (Universal Combat Challenge 1 vs Dave Beneteau), and was the first Australian to fight in an MMA match in K-1 when he lost at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 vs Frank Shamrock. Mr Sinosic was also the first Australian to fight in the UFC – UFC 30 vs Jeremy Horn – his only winning performance with the organization, where he was the first Australian to fight for a UFC World Championship (UFC 32 in a loss vs. Tito Ortiz).

UFC career
Sinosic's last fight in the UFC was a loss to Michael Bisping due to TKO (strikes) at UFC 70. He was scheduled to return to the octagon in 2010 for a rematch against Chris Haseman at UFC 110, the first UFC event to be held in Australia. However, just days before the fight, Sinosic was forced to withdraw with a shoulder injury.

Post UFC
Sinosic's last fight was a KO loss to Paul Cahoon at Cage Rage 24 on 1 December 2007.

Political career
In 2022, Sinosic was an "endorsed" candidate for the United Australia Party.

The United Australia welcomed Mr Sinosic with open arms when the 2022 Australian Federal Election commenced. Multiple news sources had reported that the United Australia / Clive Palmer's party will run candidates in every electorate at the federal election, and the list of hopefuls is full of anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown campaigners. Three out of every four video ads the United Australia party has posted on YouTube since late September have been pulled by Google for allegedly violating advertising policies, according to Google's transparency report.

On 23 August 2021 The Daily Telegraph reported an article to confirm that Sinosic had been arrested & charged for breaching public health restrictions in Sydney.

Sinosic joined the Liberal Democrats and was on the party's legislative council ticket at the 2023 NSW state election.

Professional wrestling career
All-Star Wrestling Australia hosted the professional wrestling debut of former UFC fighter Elvis Sinosic.

Other media
Sinosic's knockout loss to Forrest Griffin appeared in the 2007 film Next starring Nicolas Cage and Jessica Biel. Elvis was also cast member and appeared in the movie "Gods of Egypt".

He appeared at All-Star Wrestling Australia to make his professional wrestling debut.

Elvis also trained popular Australian Martial Artist Michael Bray who he graded to purple belt, who has spent time pursuing reform in wealth distribution and marriage equality.

Championships and accomplishments

 * Ultimate Fighting Championship
 * Fight of the Night (One time) vs. Michael Bisping