Nationality Russia Team Ichigeki Plaza Draws 2 Division Super Heavyweight Name Aleksandr Pitchkounov Losses 3 | Style Kyokushin Karate Height 1.94 m Fighting out of Tokyo, Japan Weight 103 kg | |
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Born May 6, 1979 (age 44)
Perm, Russian SFSR, USSR ( 1979-05-06 ) Native name aleksandr Nikolaevich Pichkunov | ||
Trained by Jayson Vemoa, Fai Falamoe | ||
Aleksandr N. Pitchkounov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Пичкунов; born May 6, 1979) is a former Russian super heavyweight kickboxer and kyokushin karateka competing in K-1. He was the runner up at the K-1 World GP 2007 in Hawaii and K-1 World GP 2008 in Taipei tournament.
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Biography and career
Pitchkounov began training in Kyokushin kaikan at age of thirteen in 1993. He became a black belt in 1999 and started training kickboxing a year later after being interested by watching K-1-competitions. He was the 3rd place in the 7th World Open Karate Tournament in Japan at the age of 20. He knocked out a very famous fighter Nicholas Pettas by a high kick (jodan mawashi geri)
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