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    Default Re: Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

    There's been quite a few world champion boxers with kickboxing backgrounds.

    Vitali Klitschko was a 6 time (amateur & pro) world kickboxing champ.

    Alexander Povetkin won a world Junior Amateur championship & a pro European kickboxing title before transitioning to boxing.

    James Warring - Former IBF Cruiserweight champion was a four time professional kickboxing champ. Defeated Vitali in an amateur kickboxing bout.

    Marco Huck was a two time amateur kickboxing champion.

    Troy Dorsey won the IBF Featherweight title in 91. Had some close fights with Jorge Paez back in the day. The only man (according to wiki) to win world titles in Karate & Boxing. His kickboxing credentials are too long to type so I'll just post his wiki page Troy Dorsey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Other guys like Jerome Le Banner, Rick Roufus, and the late Mike Bernardo boxed. They had moderate success...with Roufus & Bernardo winning minor titles.

    Mike Bernardo - Boxer
    Rick Roufus - Boxer
    Jerome Le Banner - Boxer

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    great thread---you know over the years watchıng kıckboxıng I always wondered why those guys dont go ınto boxıng ınstead. I mean ıf you can kıck AND punch ıt should be easıer just to punch shouldnt ıt? Less energy spent etc.. Kıckıng takes 2.5 tımes more energy than punchıng I thınk I read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
    great thread---you know over the years watchıng kıckboxıng I always wondered why those guys dont go ınto boxıng ınstead. I mean ıf you can kıck AND punch ıt should be easıer just to punch shouldnt ıt? Less energy spent etc.. Kıckıng takes 2.5 tımes more energy than punchıng I thınk I read.
    Tell that to Pele Reid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ICB View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
    great thread---you know over the years watchıng kıckboxıng I always wondered why those guys dont go ınto boxıng ınstead. I mean ıf you can kıck AND punch ıt should be easıer just to punch shouldnt ıt? Less energy spent etc.. Kıckıng takes 2.5 tımes more energy than punchıng I thınk I read.
    Tell that to Pele Reid.
    or Bob Sapp?


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    Default Re: Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

    Quote Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust View Post
    great thread---you know over the years watchıng kıckboxıng I always wondered why those guys dont go ınto boxıng ınstead. I mean ıf you can kıck AND punch ıt should be easıer just to punch shouldnt ıt? Less energy spent etc.. Kıckıng takes 2.5 tımes more energy than punchıng I thınk I read.
    Most kick boxers can't punch! The purpose of puncing is different in kick boxing, different technique and tactics. There's not a lot of carry over.

    The kick boxers who can punch usually can't kick as well as they can punch, so change.

    It's kickboxing, not box kicking.

    Didn't Vitali fail a drug test kick boxing?

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    thıs thread has put the hoo-doo on vıtalı now----how much you wanna bet he loses hıs next 2 fıghts?

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    Default Re: Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

    Il bet my house he wins every fookin fight until he retires even at 41! Look kickboxing is something i know about and vitali was a good kickboxer but he never fought anyone of note really, no one great anyway, he fought in the lower ranking bodies and never won any major honours or any of the MAJOR world titles, nor did he fight in K1! Being a multiple world champ in kickboxing sounds impressive but there are many organisations in which you can win belts, and many non great fighters have took a belt or two, vitali was a good kickboxer but he is not considered a great in kickboxing....who knows though had he stuck at the sport rather than chose HW boxing! He is the kind of athlete who would have been great at any combat sport, watching him in K1 would have been interesting and watching the warrior that is vitali klitschko go up against the likes of the great peter aerts, cikatic, hoost and kaman would have been interesting!!

    Secondly pele reid was not a great kicboxer either, in fact he was pretty average, he was also beat by the likes of julius francis and orlin norris in boxing! Like i said if you want see a great kickboxer see rob kaman or branko cikatic.

    Alexey ignashov etc would have made great HW boxers too.
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    Somebody finally uploaded the "infamous" Pele Reid kickboxing match.


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    Default Re: Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

    Vitali "I got kicked in the thigh"

    Yeah you really got kicked in your "thigh"

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    Default Re: Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

    Matt Skelton did the same shit I think.

    Eventually kickboxers come to the realization... THERES NO MONEY IN KICKBOXING

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    vitali is a great athlete---have to admire him for sure. great athlete great condition and fast and strong. cannot ask for more than that......

    still rank him #17 or so All-Time Great

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    Default Re: Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

    ive always wanted to see the pele reid KO

    now i have seen it its a a dissapointment, i wish i never had
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    Default Re: Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

    Finally after all these years.

    The Pele Reid KO'd Vitali wind-up was one of my favs

    @Lyle - that wasn't no "leg kick" (), he got his chin well and truly cracked
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