Name	Doug Viney
Birth name	Douglas Ma'afu Hawke
Other names	Vicious
Nationality	New Zealand
Birth date	November 20, 1976
Birth place	Auckland, New Zealand
Height
Weight
Style	Muay Thai
Team	Team Sefo, Balmoral Lee Gar Gym
Trainer	Ray Sefo Lolo Heimuli Jayson Vemoa
Years active	2000– present
Box win	1
Box loss	0
Kickbox win	19
Kickbox kowin	9
Kickbox loss	9
Boxrec	329866

Doug "Vicious" Viney is a professional heavyweight boxer and kickboxer from Auckland, New Zealand. He is the K-1 World GP 2007 in Las Vegas champion, who also represented Tonga as a super heavyweight boxer under the name of Ma'afu Hawke at 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Biography and career

Titles

2007 K-1 World Grand Prix in Las Vegas Champion

2004 Athens Summer Olympian

2004 Oceania Amateur Heavyweight Boxing Champion

2001 K-1 New Zealand Grand Prix Champion

2000 NZ Cruiser Weight Boxing Champion

See also

List of male kickboxers

List of K-1 Events

List of K-1 champions

List of kickboxing organizations

External links

Doug Viney's profile at Official K-1 Website

References

Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:New Zealand kickboxers Category:Tongan martial artists Category:Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic boxers of Tonga

Name	Badr Hari
Native name	بدر هاري
Other names	The Golden Boy, Bad Boy
Nationality	Dutch Morocco
Birth date	December 08, 1984
Birth place	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Height
Weight
Style	Muay Thai
Team	Mike's Gym (2005-present) Chakuriki Gym (2000-2005) Sitan Gym
Trainer	Mike Passenier Thom Harinck Mohammed Aït Hassou
Years active	2000-Present
Kickbox win	76
Kickbox kowin	62
Kickbox loss	11
Kickbox koloss	7
Kickbox draw	1
Mma win	0
Mma loss	1
Mma subloss	1
Url	http://www.badrhari.jp/
Sherdog	4542
Updated	May 30, 2010

Badr "The Golden Boy" Hari (Arabic: بدر هاري born December 8, 1984 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a professional Moroccan-Dutch Heavyweight kickboxer and martial artist, fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is a former K-1 Heavyweight champion and K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 finalist.

He was disqualified in the final match of the K-1 World GP 2008 Finals due to "unsportsmanlike conduct" against Remy Bonjasky. On May 16, 2009 he knocked out Semmy Schilt in the first round and became the first ever It's Showtime World Heavyweight champion. He was again disqualified on June 19, 2010 at the "Its Showtime" event in Amsterdam after another unsportsmanlike conduct against Hesdy Gerges. As a result he lost his "Its Showtime" Heavyweight title.

Hari has been officially praised by the king of Morocco, Mohammed VI, since 2009 for his outstanding accomplishments in kickboxing.

Early life

Badr Hari began practicing kickboxing at the age of seven, under the guidance of former World Champion Mousid Akamrane.As a teenager he trained under Mohammed Ait Hassou at the Sitan Gym. When the Sitan Gym moved to Rotterdam, Badr joined the famous Chakuriki Gym ran by Thom Harinck. Under Harinck, Hari developed into one of the greatest kickboxing talents of the Netherlands.

Kickboxing career

Early career

Under Harnick's coaching, Hari suffered few losses. In 2003 he replaced Melvin Manhoef with only a few days notice, to fight Alexey Ignashov. Hari, outweighed by more than 18 kg, lost the fight by knockout, but gained a lot of respect for stepping up to such an opponent under those circumstances.

In January 2005, Hari left Chakuriki and joined Simon Rutz's It's Showtime team. After a few months' training at Mejiro Gym he returned to Harinck's, but left again a couple of weeks later. Since then Badr Hari has been coached by Mike Passenier, who also trains Joerie Mes, Bjorn Bregy and Melvin Manhoef.

Road to K-1

Hari's road to fame began with a pair of matches against Stefan Leko in 2005. The first took place at the 'It's Showtime 8' event, on June 12, 2005. Hari, who was generally known for his big mouth and slow ring entrance started some trash talk between them before the fight, making the hype even greater. Hari's long ring entrance took longer than the actual fight, where Hari was knocked out by Leko's trademark spinning back kick.

On November 19, 2005, Hari got his chance for revenge. He entered the K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 as a reserve fighter against Stefan Leko. Hari didn't seem to have lost his confidence and knocked Leko out by a spinning back high kick to the jaw. After all the bad blood between both fighters, Hari helped his opponent up and escorted the dazed German to the corner.

K-1 New Zealand 2006

In 2006 Badr Hari was scheduled to participate in the K-1 World GP 2006 in The Netherlands on May 13, 2006, but fought in the K-1 World GP 2006 in New Zealand instead as a last minute replacement. His opponent in the first round was Australian Peter "The Chief" Graham. Hari once again showed his bad boy reputation by abusing Graham and starting a street fight at the press conference. In the actual fight Hari was knocked out by Graham's trademark "Rolling Thunder". The heel hit Hari hard on the head and knocked him out cold. Graham's kick broke Hari's jaw in multiple places and sidelined Hari for several months.

Return to K-1

Hari returned to the ring at the K-1 World GP 2006 Final Elimination in Osaka, Japan against Ruslan Karaev. Karaev hurt Badr with a straight right that left Hari slouching over in the corner, then Karaev delivered a kick to Hari's face; Hari was counted out by the referee but immediately he and his corner protested, claiming the kick was a foul. When the referee did not respond, Hari and his cornermen caused a commotion and refused to leave the ring until they were escorted out by K-1 officials. Hari left in anger and trashed his changing room. Six months later, Hari was awarded a rematch against the Russian. After being knocked down by Karaev in the second round, Hari stood back up, slipped a punch and delievered a KO blow with a straight right to Karaev.

Despite being knocked out, Hari was once again picked as a reserve fighter in the K-1 Grand Prix 2006 Finals against Paul Slowinski. He won the fight by unanimous decision.

Hari then fought Nicholas Pettas at Dynamite and broke Pettas's left arm in the second round with his powerful round kicks.

Hari got his revenge against Karaev at the K-1 World GP 2007 in Yokohama. Karaev and Hari's matchup was one of two bouts to qualify for the first K-1 Heavyweight Title Match, scheduled on April 28, 2007 in Hawaii. Hari was knocked down in the second round and was just able to make it to his feet when Karaev intended to finish the fight with a swinging punch which Hari ducked, and landed a right cross to score a KO.

K-1 Heavyweight champion

On April 28, at K-1 World GP 2007 in Hawaii, Badr Hari and Yusuke Fujimoto fought for the newly introduced Heavyweight belt. Hari won the fight in 56 seconds with a kick to the chin. With the knockout Hari became the world's first ever K-1 Heavyweight champion.

Hari got his chance for revenge against Graham in Hong Kong where he dropped Graham with a body punch and won by unanimous decision.

On September 29, 2007 at the K-1 World GP 2007 Final Elimination, Badr Hari beat the K-1 World GP 2007 in Las Vegas tournament champion, Doug Viney, by a second round KO and qualified for his first K-1 World GP Final, held on December 8 in Yokohama, Japan. His winning streak came to an end with a decision loss to Remy Bonjasky, during quarter final.

2008

All of Hari's wins in 2008 were by knockouts, by beating Ray Sefo in Yokohama, Glaube Feitosa (whom he defended his heavyweight title) in Fukuoka and Domagoj Ostojic in Hawaii. On his next fight in Seoul he qualified for the K-1 World GP 2008 Final by TKO win over the Korean giant Hong Man Choi.

In the quarterfinals on December 6, Hari defeated three time K-1 World champion Peter Aerts by TKO in the second round. In the semis he knocked out Errol Zimmerman and headed to his first K-1 Final against Remy Bonjasky. After suffering a knockdown in the first, Hari was disqualified in the second round for unsportsmanlike conduct by stomping and punching an already downed Bonjasky. First the referee Nobuaki Kakuda issued a yellow card and one point deduction. Meanwhile Hari proceeded to Bonjasky’s corner shouting, and quarreled with his opponent's trainer Ivan Hippolyte who then also approached Hari aggressively, but the officials prevented any further physical contact between them. After the five-minute recovery time elapsed, the doctor reported Bonjasky was seeing double and could not continue. Hari was issued a red card and Bonjasky was declared the K-1 World GP 2008 champion.

After the event Badr was not suspended for his actions, but K-1 has however stripped him of his heavyweight title and his fee for participation in the tournament.

While there were many rumours of his and his opponent's participation, it was finally announced that Badr would face MMA Heavyweight Alistair Overeem in a K-1 rules match on K-1's NYE extravaganza. Hari lost the fight by a left hook KO in the first round within 2 minutes. Part of the fight agreement is that both Badr and Overeem would also fight each other in an MMA match for FEG's DREAM promotion sometime in 2009.

2009

In May 2009 Hari fought Semmy Schilt in a long-awaited bout for the newly introduced It's Showtime World Heavyweight title. Hari came out very aggressively and knocked Schilt down twice in the first round. The fight was stopped after the second knockdown and Hari took the heavyweight title in 42 seconds.

At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final 16 Hari again used his trademark right body shot to score a first round knockout over Zabit Samedov.

At the selection for the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final Hari chose to fight Ruslan Karaev for the third time. He ran through the tournament with first round knockouts over Karaev and Alistair Overeem in a rematch, to make it to the World Grand Prix Final for the second year against Semmy Schilt. In their rematch Hari lost by KO after being knocked down 3 times in the first round.

2010

His first fight in 2010 Hari defended his Showtime heavyweight title with a second round knockout over Mourad Bouzidi.

In April Hari defeated Alexey Ignashov in the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Yokohama. The fight went to decision, Hari's first non-knockout win in 3 years.

Hari's Showtime title was again on the line against Hesdy Gerges in Amsterdam in May. Hari dominated most of the first round, hitting Gerges many times and having him on the ropes. Despite this Hesdy surprised everyone on the night for taking the punishment and refusing to go down, and fight back. In the second round Gerges came forward, he backed up Hari and managed to throw more techniques than Badr could, who was on the back foot. This frustrated Badr, who kicked Gerges in the face when he was trying to stand up after a slip leaving him lying on the canvas. Badr was again disqualified and did not speak in the ring after Gerges was announced the winner. Instead, training partner Melvin Manhoef apologized to the fans on Badr's behalf but was booed by the crowd who were more happy when Badr was disqualified and Gerges became the new "Its Showtime" Heavyweight champion.

Titles

2009 K-1 World Grand Prix Runner Up

2009 It's Showtime World Heavyweight champion (1 Defense)

2007-2008 K-1 Heavyweight champion

2002 WPKL Dutch Muay Thai champion

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Kickboxing record

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See also

List of K-1 events

List of K-1 champions

List of male kickboxers

List of kickboxing organizations

References

External links

Badr Hari THE OFFICIAL SITE

Mike's Gym Official site

Category:1984 births Category:Living people Category:Moroccan kickboxers Category:People from Amsterdam Category:Dutch people of Moroccan descent

Name	Zabit Samedov
Caption	Samedov warming-up at K-1 Turkey 2007
Birth name	Zabit Samedov
Other names	Maugli (Mowgli)
Nationality	Azerbaijani Belarusian
Birth date	June 21, 1984
Birth place	Gardabani, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Fighting out of	Minsk, Belarus
Height
Weight
Weight class	Heavyweight
Style	Kickboxing, Muay Thai
Stance	Orthodox
Team	Chinuk Gym
Trainer	Dmitry Piochesky Aziz Dursunov (formerly)
Years active	1998–present
Kickbox win	72
Kickbox kowin	32
Kickbox loss	10
Kickbox koloss	2
Url	http://zabit-samedov.com
Updated	November 16, 2009

Zabit "Maugli" Samedov (Azeri: Zabit Səmədov, , born June 21, 1984 in Gardabani, Georgia) is an Azerbaijani kickboxer fighting out of Chinuk Gym in Minsk, Belarus.

Biography and career

in Istanbul]] Zabit Samedov was born in Georgia into an Azeri family and moved to Minsk when he was 10 years old. He started practicing martial arts at the age of 9. At very first he studied karate for 6 months under Aziz Dursunov, then switched to Muay Thai. In 1998, he joined Chinuk Gym, a well known gym based in Minsk. He trained with Alexey Ignashov and Sergei Gur under the management of his trainer Dmitriy Pyasetsky.

He was recruited by top martial arts organization K-1, after achieving several titles in various events between 2004 and 2006. He began to fight with consistency by attaining the title of K-1 Fighting Network in Riga in 2006 in Latvia.

On August 17, 2007, following the K-1 World GP 2007 in Las Vegas event the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) issued a statement that Samedov tested positive for Stanozolol, an anabolic steroid.

On 26 April 2008, Samedov competed in K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Amsterdam, dispatched Doug Viney and Brian Douwes respectively. However, he was beaten by Errol Zimmerman in the final on points.

Samedov fought at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 in Łódź where he beat, Mindaugas Sakalauskas by unanimous decision and Raul Catinas and Sergei Lascenko to finally make it to the Final 16. At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final 16 Samedov was knocked out by Badr Hari in the first round.

Trivia

In his free time, he also likes to play football. Legend: |}

See also

List of K-1 events

List of K-1 champions

List of male kickboxers

List of kickboxing organizations

References

External links

Official website Zabit Samedov

Official K-1 website

Official K-1 website Zabit Samedov profile

Category:Azerbaijani kickboxers Category:Belarusian kickboxers Category:Heavyweight kickboxers Category:Azerbaijani Muay Thai practitioners Category:Belarusian Muay Thai practitioners Category:1984 births Category:Living people Category:Georgian Azeris Category:People from Gardabani Category:People from Minsk