Name Nurhayat Hicyakmazer Trainer Hakan Sahade | Weight 65 kg (143 lb) Nationality Turkish | |
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Occupation Primary education teacher | ||
Nurhayat hi yakmazer
Nurhayat Hiçyakmazer (born October 4, 1983), nicknamed "Prenses Zeyna" (Turkish for "Xena the Warrior Princess"), is a Turkish female martial artist competing in the boxing, Muay Thai and wushu discipilines. She is a member of the Star Academy Sport Club in Adana, where she is coached by Hakan Şahade.
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Early life
She was born on October 4, 1983 in Adana as the second child of four sieblings. Inspired by her boxer uncles, Nurhayat Hiçyakmazer began in 1995 with training in boxing. After fighting in amateur boxing some years, she got interested in wushu. In 2004, she began Muay Thai performing.
After the high school, she attended the Gazi University in Ankara, and gained in 2002 a degree in Sports and Physical Education. After some years of unemployment, she became a secondary education school teacher in Istanbul.
Asked about her nickname, she comments:
There is a saying that "a good wrestler keeps his ear intact, and a good boxer his nose". I could keep my face undemolished sofar. At a tournament in Hungary, my Russian opponents named me "Xena the Warrior Princess". My husband calls me now also "Xena".
Family
Nurhayat Hiçyakmazer married on September 16, 2010 to K-1 fighter Erhan "Pitbull Attack" Deniz, a Turkish kickboxing champion and her former trainer.