Does anyone know where i can watch or buy some videos/DVDs of Vitali Klitschko in pro kickboxing matches?
I don't think he ever had a pro kickboxing match. His KO loss to Pele Ried was under semi-FCR.
Klitschko practically had a whole career in pro kickboxing before switching over to boxing. In 1992 he beat Bad Brad Hefton for the ISKA heavyweight title. He also lost to James Warring. I can't name all the guys he fought, but these 2 for sure.
News to me. I'd like to know more.
How many fights is a whole career?
alphamale's question is where can he get video footage.
I would like to know too, I want to see Klitchsko's kickboxing fights.
I have the video where he fought Hefton on USA vs Russia. I fought Dida the first time on that show. I think Heftom retired after the beating he received in that bout.
I think I have him smashing Richard Vince In Norwich.
Scared the shit out of me. He stepped over the top rope like he was 18ft tall.
David Cummings/Bulldog, are you able to copy the tapes and sell me the copies?
Me too mee toooo
I want videos
I want I want I want
shoot me an e-mail and ill see if i can make a couple of copies
he was a full contact fighter, all fights above waist.
i found a great site which i think its new that sells kickboxing dvd's and i'm pretty sure one was a klitschko fight. i'll find the link and post it.
i've been told he was once supposed to fight stan "the man" longinidis in 1991 in a leg kick fight but it never panned out, i believe stan fought branko cikatic instead on that show.
Interesting bit of 'news' from east side (don't necessary agree with the "last great heavyweight" call, but interesting none the less:
15.10.06 - Retired former heavyweight boxing king, Vitali Klitchsko, recognised as the last great heavyweight of the modern era, is the subject of interest from the kickboxing orientated martial arts organisation K-1. Klitschko, 35, who was originally a kickboxer in his native former Sovet Union, retired from boxing last year while still WBC Heavyweight Champion, citing politcal aspirations and a mounting series of injuries.
The much-admired Ukranian sports a professional kickboxing record of 37-4, and has recently been training alongside four-time K-1 World champion Ernesto Hoost at the Vos Gym in Rotterdam, Holland.
The 6’8, 245-pounder suffered his only knockout loss in professional competition while representing CIS (Russia) against British kickboxer and K-1 vet Pele Reid at the European Kickboxing Championships in 1992.
Japan’s K-1 organisation has a rich association with the boxing science and has recruited an abundance of the sport’s most accomplished pugilists, notably Ray Mercer and Francois Botha, both of whom have had limited success since making the popular transition.
“Dr. Iron Fist”, whose repeatedly refuted talk of a rematch with retired Brit Lennox Lewis, is a reported priority for K-1 matchmaker Sadaharu Tanigawa, who would likely pit Klitschko in a series of superfights against the sport’s most acclaimed fighters.
Interesting, He was a bad ass with full contact rules but K-1 rules is a whole new game. I do believe if he is training at Vos gym he will get the skills he needs and will do very well in K-1
His knees are fucked as is his back.
Here are some video's
Klitchko vs. James Warring Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tXBf8BB9...related&search=
Part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3rOfr0a1...related&search=
Klitchko vs. Yanagisawa Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yaMy6FWH...related&search=
Part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PrngwcdC...related&search=
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