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unusual facts about super heavyweight



Lloyd van Dams

Lloyd "The Tornado" van Dams (born March 5, 1972 in Para District) is a DutchSurinamese super heavyweight kickboxer.

Port Lincoln

Weightlifter Dean Lukin, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in the Super heavyweight division at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, was a tuna fisherman who shot to fame as a weightlifter in the 1980s.


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Andrés Ayub

Andrés Antonio Ayub Valenzuela (born January 1, 1982 in Santiago) is an amateur Chilean Greco-Roman wrestler, who competes in the men's super heavyweight category.

Art Atwood

A native of Wisconsin, Atwood's first NPC (National Physique Committee) competition came in 2000, where he placed 1st place in the super-heavyweight class of the Junior USA.

Denis Sergeev

Sergeev won a bronze in the 2005 Super-heavyweight Russian senior national championships losing 29:14 to Vladislav Vasilev and won a bronze again in 2006 losing to Magomed Abdusalamov in the semi final by 49:44.

Dynamite!! 2010

A fight between Bob Sapp and Shinichi Suzukawa in a super-heavyweight “IGF rules” bout was set to feature a rule set similar to MMA, but with no closed fist strikes.

Emad Abdelhalim Ali

Ali is best known for having won the gold medal in the men's super heavyweight division at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

Giampaolo Faelli

Among his most talented trainees are two Italian professional champions, Simone Desirelli, who beat Stefano Stradella, and Marco Chiesa, a young super-heavyweight talent with an impressive KO record.

José Payares

At the 2010 South American Games he won Gold at Super Heavyweight vs. Deivi Julio and Jorge Quinonez.

Josip Bodrožić

In 2004 he became the W.P.K.C. super heavyweight muay thai world champion in Ugento, Italy, beating Hungarian Peter Varga for five rounds and dropping him down several times.

Rubalcaba

Alexis Rubalcaba (born 1972), retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the Super Heavyweight division

Sport in Samoa

Several boxers and kickboxers are of Samoan descent, including former heavyweight contender David Tua, former middleweight champion Maselino Masoe, K-1 World Champion Mark Hunt as well as K-1 Super Heavyweight contenders Ray Sefo, Jason Suttie and also Jimmy Thunder.

Tonga at the Olympics

Tonga became the smallest independent nation to have won an Olympic medal in the Summer games when Super Heavyweight Boxer Paea Wolfgramm earned silver in the 1996 Super heavyweight 91 kg championships in Atlanta.

Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight

The Greco-Roman super heavyweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.