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EXCLUSIVESurvivor reality TV star reveals her dad got her into martial arts through an underground car park fight club when she was a kid

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Aussie MMA fighter and reality TV show star Chelsea Hackett has revealed that she got her start in martial arts through an underground car park fight club when she was a kid.

The 24-year-old personal trainer who competes in the Women's Flyweight division of the Professional Fighters League (PFL) had a very unusual introduction to combat sports.

Hackett had done some taekwondo from the age of eight, but really got into the underground fight scene at age 12 on the Gold Coast.

'My dad started a Chinese boxing team,' Hackett told Daily Mail Australia

'It was just your average everyday men getting together in a car park.