In the wider sense, it includes all stand-up combat sports that allow both punching and kicking, including Savate, Muay Thai, Indian boxing, Burmese boxing, Sanda, styles of Karate, etc.
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Burmese Lethwei, a traditional Burmese martial art of which has now grown into a popular kickboxing event with strong emphasis on knee, elbow strikes and headbutt.
Outside of football, Stefano Denswil has actively pursued his passion for Kickboxing as well.
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After emerging triumphant in a tournament staged in Sri Lanka in 1980, Tai took his undefeated kickboxing record of 45–0–0 (44 knockouts, 33 in the first round)into a title shot at reigning world lightheavyweight kickboxing champion, Don Wilson of the United States.
Blanks also appeared as the kickboxing instructor to Ashley Judd's character in Kiss the Girls.
Christine Anna Maria Theiss, maiden name Hennig, born February 22, 1980 in Greiz, Germany, is a German female kickboxer.
In addition to training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Cindy has also trained in Jeet Kune Do under Richard Bustillo, boxing and kickboxing with June Castro, Krav Maga with Mitch Tavera, and wrestling with Frank Trigg and Rico Chiparelli.
Aside from kickboxing, from 2001 to 2008, Ghiţă worked as a (SPP) agent assigned to protect the Romanian President.
He is coached by the former three time world kickboxing champion Paddy Toland at PT's Kickboxing Gym in Carrigans, County Donegal and in Derry City.
He was a member of the Budweiser Kickboxing Team as was martial artist Billy Blanks.
Dida Diafat, a Frenchman who became a world champion in Thai kickboxing
Carlos Augusto Inocente Filho (born May 29, 1986), better known as Guto Inocente, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and kickboxer who competes in the UFC's heavyweight division.
Izumi made his mixed martial arts debut against New Zealand kickboxing specialist, Antz Nansen for Japan's Sengoku promotion in September 2009 after Izumi signed with World Victory Road.
Ian Jacobs made a comeback to Kickboxing in November 2009, at Tarik Solak's A-1 8 man eliminator tournament.
It was the first leading role of former thai kickboxing champion, Duncan Airlie James.
On May 1, 2000 to Cesenatico changed its name to the Italian Federation of kickboxing and Associated Disciplines (FIKeDA).
Ogden also studied Judo, Kick boxing, Thai boxing, Mauy Thai, Lau Gar Kung Fu, Shotokan Karate, Wado-Ryu Karate, Aikido, Taekwondo and Wing Chun Kung Fu and holds Black Belts/Sashes in Jado Kuin Do Kung Fu, Wing Chun Kung Fu Kickboxing, Karate, Thai boxing and Taekwondo.
Jean-Yves Thériault vs. Don "The Dragon" Wilson was a middleweight kickboxing bout that took place in Montreal, Canada on December 18, 1984, which ended in a decision draw.
In kickboxing, he was the champion of two K-1 GPs and defeated talented kickboxers such as Remy Bonjasky, Bjorn Bregy, Xhavit Bajrami and Jorgen Kruth.
In December 2011, Kash Gill fought former world kickboxing champion Don "The Dragon" Wilson in a mixed martial arts cage match in Kazakhstan.
He lost to Jessy Petit-Jean in a fight for the WKN World Lightweight Kickboxing Championship on November 17, 2012 in Liege, Belgium.
: June 2011 – acquired the title of winner of the World Cup in kickboxing (WAKO «Bestfighter» — 2011), which was held in Rimini (Italy).
In early 2013 he was invited to fight in Glory promotion at Glory 5: London to face Dustin Jacoby, who won Road to Glory USA tournament, beating three opponents in one night.
Paddy Toland is the coach of the current Middle and Light Middleweight kickboxing champion, Tommy McCafferty (born in Letterkenny, Ireland) and the ISKA World Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion, Daniel Quigley (born in Derry City, Northern Ireland).
He has trained such celebrities as Hollywood starlet Morgan Fairchild in kung-fu, and trained Olympian Kevin Padilla, and Olympic Gold Medallist Herbert Perez in kickboxing.
The kickboxing champion however passed through a turbulent period in his life because of his association with Lebanese pop diva Suzanne Tamim who was brutally murdered in Dubai.
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.
Steve began his training in his father's Karate school, Torakan, at the age of 4 in Shotokan Karate, attaining his black belt, fighting and winning Karate tournaments before he began his kickboxing career at 16.
Thomas Teige (born 1968), German martial artist, multiple world champion and world record holder in powerbreaking, vice world champion in breaking, multiple European champion in kickboxing and occasional actor
He is coached by the former three-time world kickboxing champion Paddy Toland at PT's Kickboxing Gym in Carrigans, County Donegal.
In 1993, Petridis beat the legendary Jean-Yves Thériault, by points decision in a 12 round fight in Montreal, Canada, for Thériault's world Kickboxing title, under American Kickboxing rules.
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.
There were a couple of notable medalists with kickboxing and taekwon-do champion Tomaž Barada winning gold, and future E.B.U. boxing champion Rafał Jackiewicz gaining a bronze.
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Notable winners in this category included Ivan Strugar who would go on to win multiple European and world kickboxing titles and Cengiz Koç who would also have some success as an amateur boxer.
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W.A.K.O. European Championships 1996 were the thirteenth European kickboxing championships hosted by the W.A.K.O. organization arranged by the Serbia and Montenegro kickboxing president Borislav Pelević.
He then signed with K-1, a kickboxing and mixed martial arts organization, fighting under his old shikona (He uses the Latin script, appearing as "WAKASHOYO" rather than using the Japanese characters. The Sumo Association requested that Konishiki do the same thing in his post-sumo career).