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Other names
  
Apollo

Name
  
Dale Cook

Division
  
Team
  
Apollo's Martial Arts

Weight
  
73 kg

Stance
  
Height
  
1.83 m

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Actor


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Born
  
November 24, 1956 (age 67) Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States (
1956-11-24
)

Style
  
KarateKickboxingTaekwondo

Fighting out of
  
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

People also search for
  
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Notable students
  
Randy Blake, Todd Hays, Ralph Waite

Movies
  
American Kickboxer 2, Raw Target, Triple Impact, Deadend of Besiegers

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Dale Cook (born November 24, 1958) is an American former kickboxer who competed in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions. With a background in karate and taekwondo, Cook debuted professionally in 1977 and spent the early part of his career as a full contact rules fighter, winning the PKA World Middleweight Championship. In the 1980s, he began fighting under Oriental and Muay Thai rules and took two world titles under the WKA banner. A short stint in shoot boxing towards the end of his career in the mid-1990s resulted in another world title in that discipline.

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An occasional actor, Cook also starred in several action-oriented B-movies in the early 1990s.

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Career

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Nicknamed Apollo, Dale Cook began practicing martial arts with taekwondo at the age of fifteen and eventually earned the rank of seventh degree black belt. After taking up kickboxing, he turned professional in 1977 and rose to prominence when he won the PKA World Middleweight Championship. Having fought exclusively under the full contact rule set in the beginning of his career, he later ventured into Oriental rules in the 1980s.

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He won his second world title and the first with low kicks on June 12, 1987 when he knocked out Donald Tucker in the first round to claim the WKA world middleweight (-72.5 kg/159.8 lb) title. Following this, he added the WKA super middleweight (-76 kg/167.6 lb) strap to his mantle.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cook challenged six Muay Thai stylists from Thailand, defeating five of them and losing once, a second round KO at the hands of Changpuek Kiatsongrit on June 30, 1990 in Tokyo, Japan. On July 30, 1992, he fought Toshiyuki Atokawa at the Kakutogi Olympics II in Tokyo in a kickboxing/full contact karate hybrid match. Rounds one and three were fought with boxing gloves, and rounds two and four bare-knuckle with punching to the face disallowed. Cook won on points, and the pair rematched under Seido karate rules on October 4, 1992 in the opening round of the '92 Karate World Cup in Osaka, Japan. The first round was ruled a draw and went to an extension round after which Atokawa won on all five judges' scorecards.

He continued to fight in Japan where he won the shoot boxing world title before retiring in 1996.

After his retirement, Cook opened Apollo's Martial Arts karate and kickboxing gym in his hometown of Tulsa. Among his students are K-1 heavyweights Randy Blake, Todd Hays and Ralph White, as well as the Oklahoma Destroyers World Combat League team. He also runs the Xtreme Fighting League, an Oklahoma-based promotion which features both kickboxing and mixed martial arts matches.

Kickboxing

  • Professional Karate Association
  • PKA United States Welterweight Championship
  • PKA World Middleweight Championship
  • World Shoot Boxing Association
  • WSBA World Championship
  • World Kickboxing Association
  • WKA World Middleweight (-72.5 kg/159.8 lb) Championship
  • WKA World Super Middleweight (-76 kg/167.6 lb) Championship
  • Filmography

    Actor
    1995
    Blood Ring 2 as
    Max Rivers
    1995
    Raw Target as
    Johnny Rider
    1994
    Double Blast (Video) as
    Greg
    1993
    American Kickboxer 2 as
    Mike (as Dale 'Apollo' Cook)
    1992
    Triple Impact (Video) as
    Dave Masters (as Dale 'Apollo' Cook)
    1992
    Deadend Besiegers as
    Gaijin who beats Wuwech
    1992
    Eternal Fist as
    Amp (as Dale 'Apollo' Cook)
    1991
    Blood Ring as
    Max Rivers
    1991
    Fist of Glory as
    Jake Reynolds
    Self
    1999
    Choke (Documentary) as
    Self - Fight Manager

    References

    Dale Cook Wikipedia


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