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Perseus wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 19:07

chinarich wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 05:20 I think Carl Thompson was a Muay Thai world champion before boxing, then of course he held the WBO and IBO Cruiserweight titles.

His wiki says he had two fights for MT world titles but lost both.

I did see an interview with him where he said he won a world title but there isn't much recognition compared to boxing because there are so many different organisations. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't.

Coco wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 19:17 Klit got knocked cold by Pele Reid

What nobody ever says though is that it was a no contact tournament. So when he did it Klitschko wasn't expecting it to happen. It was a point tournament.

John Wayne Parr was a national and IBF Pan Pacific boxing champion prior to turning his attention to kickboxing and muay thai where he won numerous world titles over a long and decorated career. He then returned to boxing for one last fight, defeating former world title holder Anthony Mundine.

Redback Rasta wrote: ↑06 Jun 2023, 05:32 John Wayne Parr was a national and IBF Pan Pacific boxing champion prior to turning his attention to kickboxing and muay thai where he won numerous world titles over a long and decorated career. He then returned to boxing for one last fight, defeating former world title holder Anthony Mundine.

JWP was always a Muay Thai fighter first. He originally moved to Thailand to train when he was 20 after winning some national and regional titles.

Looks like there is a new name to add to the list.

Yoshiki Takei

Kickboxing: K1-1 Superbantam champion

Boxing: current WBO bantamweight champ

I am booking Tenshin Nasukawa to be a part of this thread soon

Another name to add:
Amnat Ruenroeng

Muay Thai champion(Lumpinee)

IBF flyweight champion in boxing

....and another Muay Thai/boxing champion.

Thamanoon Niyontrong........also known as Knockout CP Freshmart.
He won titles at Lumpinee and Rajadamnern in Muay Thai then went on to be a long time WBA straw weight title holder.

Przemysław Saleta started from kickboxing. He won WAKO belt/medal there (I did not really follow kickboxing), and after switching to boxing he won EBU belt as well. Fun fact, he got wins both over Klitschko in kickboxing and over Golota in boxing. Though Vitali was a teenager at that time, and for Golota it was his last fight.

Lee Swaby - WAKO in KB, Midlands Belt in boxing - still counts :) did challenge for Commonwealth too

Chantelle Cameron was a USKA champ in FC kickboxing. She was brilliant tbf. Fought on the bounce, actually landed head kicks. Proper artist, far better suited to kickboxing but there’s no money in it.

Head guards - so I assume Amateur, but Alex Povetkin



Can’t confirm if it’s a ‘world’ title….

This is a decent, but likely incomplete list of fighters who COMPETED in pro Kick and pro boxing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... ng_records

troy dorsey

dont know if he won titles but big baby miller fought in glory.

If he beats Takuma Inoue next week, Tenshin Nasukawa becomes another subject of this list.

JxhDel. wrote: ↑17 Nov 2025, 10:36 If he beats Takuma Inoue next week, Tenshin Nasukawa becomes another subject of this list.

Did not happen, unfortunately.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑29 Oct 2020, 02:57

gilgamesh wrote: ↑24 Oct 2020, 18:44

Jan wrote: ↑21 Oct 2020, 05:12 Can anybody say how good vitali klitschko was as a kickboxer? did he win an important title?

When I've seen him Kickboxing he had headgear on. So no he didn't win an important title.

I would think he was decent at it. Surely a better boxer though.

he fought without head gear too

Here's a clip of Pele Reid knocking out Vitali Klitschko.

Khaosai Galaxy?

Not sure he was a World Champ, though.

Hasn't happened yet, but Tenshin Nasukawa will win a Championship in Boxing in the near future to go along with his Championships in Kickboxing. I'd bet heavily on it.