A professional wrestler from Dartford has won the world’s biggest Death Match tournament in America.

Jim Rupert MacCarthy AKA Jimmy Havoc, won this year’s Tournament of Death in Delaware.

The Tournament of Death is an annual professional wrestling tournament organised by Combat Zone Wrestling.

The tournaments include weapons such as barbed wire, nails and light tubes.

Jimmy, who made his debut in 2004, won the tournament at his first time of entering.

He said: “Thousands of people attend, it is the biggest competition like it in the world I think.

“It was my first time entering and I won, it was just incredible, an amazing feeling.

“These tournaments are really big in Japan and America, and it was really good to win."

The fights in a tournament of death involve weapons so some of the injuries sustained are completely real.

During the final Jimmy was thrown into a pane of glass resulting in heavy bleeding, but he said the medical staff were on hand to make sure he was ok.

He said: “It is all about realistic combat whilst still being a performance. I was thrown into a pane of glass but the medical guys took care of me.

“If some people don't get it by now they probably will never, but it is about being realistic and telling stories, getting reactions and putting on a spectacle. It felt incredible to win.”

Jimmy, who know lives in North London, is regarded as one of the best international death match wrestlers.

He said: "I wrestle about three times a week, but now I think I need some time in bed."

Jimmy was the first British wrestler to compete in CZW’s Tournament of Death.