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4 unusual facts about Full Contact


Get the Funk Out

The song was featured in the 1992 Hong Kong action film Full Contact.

Golden Princess Film Production

It has produced several acclaimed films including The Killer, Peking Opera Blues and Full Contact.

Rick Roufus

In the beginning of his career, Roufus fought under the rule of Full contact where leg kicks, elbow strikes, and knee attacks were not allowed.

Stan Longinidis

Born in Melbourne Australia of Greeks ethnicity, Longinidis is one of the few fighters to have won World titles in three different styles, International Rules Kickboxing, Full Contact and Muay Thai, others being Fred Royers and Ernesto Hoost.



see also

Belegarth Medieval Combat Society

Belegarth Medieval Combat Society is a full contact battle game where foam weapons are used in order to prevent serious physical injury to participants.

Feitosa

Glaube Feitosa (b. 1973), a Brazilian former kickboxer and a kyokushin full contact karate practitioner

Jakob Schäuffelen

Thereafter he made his first documentary (Full Contact - A Way Of Living) about four friendly and educated people and their passion for Mixed martial arts.

Josip Bodrožić

Two of his most noted accomplishments were bronze medals at W.A.K.O., world championships under full contact rules 1997 in Gdansk and 1999 in Caorle.

Marco Ghibaudo

He also fought for the WMMAF Super Welterweight International Full Contact title, losing against Alessandro Riguccini on points in June 2010 in Mexico City.

Phil Greening

Greening has always maintained it was a fair challenge in a full contact sport and Damian Hopley, the Professional Rugby Players Association CEO says the ruling sets a very dangerous precedent in such a sport.

Rattan

Due to its durability and resistance to splintering, sections of rattan can be used as staves or canes for martial arts— 70 cm-long rattan sticks, called baston, are used in Filipino martial arts, especially Modern Arnis and Eskrima and for the striking weapons in the Society for Creative Anachronism's full-contact "heavy combat".

Troy Dorsey

At the W.A.K.O. World Championships 1987 in Munich, West Germany in October 1987, Dorsey again took gold in full contact kickboxing but was only able to manage silver in semi contact, losing out to Oliver Drexler in the final.

Valdrin Vatnikaj

He fought David Codron in a WKN European Full Contact Super Lightweight (-66.7 kg/147 lb) title match in Pernes-les-Fontaines, France on February 23, 2013 and lost on points after ten, two minute rounds.

W.A.K.O. World Championships 1987

There were a few notable winners in the men's events with Mike Anderson winning gold and American team mate and future pro-boxing world champion Troy Dorsey picking up silver (both had won gold in the Full-Contact category at the same games).