Mareks Lavrinovics is a light heavyweight

Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight...

 kickboxer and karateka. He is a former WFCA Baltic Muaythai champion, currently competing in K-1

K-1

K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...

 and kyokushin

Kyokushin

is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese karate master, who was born under the name Choi Young-Eui . Kyokushinkai is Japanese for "the society of the ultimate truth". Kyokushin is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training...

 karate

Karate

is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...

. He made his K-1 debut in 2005 at Fight Night of Gladiators against Oskars Zonerfelds.

Biography and career

Lavrinovics had a successful karate career, winning ten times Latvian champion titles an one time get a bronze medal of European championships of kyokushin karate at year 2005. He strted His debut in profesional kickboxing was in 2005 against Oskars Zonerfelds. He is trained by his father - Vladimirs Lavrinovics.

On September 30, 2006 Lavrinovics won the WFCA Baltic champion title tournament by three winings over Kiril Pshonko (Lithuania), Sandris Tomsons (Latvia) and Alan Pšednij (Lithuania).

Titles

• 2010 WFCA Latvian K-1 champion
• 2006 WFCA Baltic Muaythai champion
• 2000–2010 Latvian kyokushin karate champion

Kickboxing record

Kickboxing record
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External links

• http://fightclub.lv/lavr-79.html