James Haskell: 'When you’re being choked in the MMA cage it’s horrific' | Donald McRae

The ex-England rugby player is ‘a full-on professional sportsman again’ but his new life in mixed martial arts is a test like no other“I’m in the dungeon in Wembley five times a week, training with fighters, and there is no let-up,” James Haskell says as he explains his transition from being an England rugby player who won 77 caps to the far darker and more dangerous world of mixed martial arts. Haskell has also recently become a reality television celebrity, since his appearance in the Jungle, but the seriousness of trying to learn how to fight now consumes his massive frame. It is just as we…