Mosab Amrani
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Mosab "Jaguar" Amrani is a Moroccan-Dutch
middleweight
-super welterweight Muay Thai
kickboxer
fighting out of Amsterdam, Netherlands for Mousid Gym. He is the former W.M.C. Muay Thai
featherweight
world champion and is currently competing in It's Showtime
. He is a highly skilled fighter whose matches are often extremely entertaining.
and became one of the countries top prospects in the lower weight classes. He made the transition up in weight to 63.5 kg and made his first impact on the international Muay Thai
scene by defeating the legendary Anuwat Kaewsamrit
via technical knockout at a SLAMM!!
event in 2008 to win his first major honour - the W.M.C. world title.
He held on to his W.M.C. world belt for just seven months when he lost his first title defence against the highly decorated Andrei Kulebin
at the Champions of Champions II event in Jamaica
. Mosab made up for this disappointment in the Autumn of 2009 when he beat one of the worlds top Muay Thai fighters, Bovy Sor Udomson
, to win the W.M.C. intercontinental title, stopping him in the first round in an extremely impressive victory.
Recently Mosab has made the move up to the 70 kg division where the competition is tougher but the riches are greater. He has so far shown himself to be a decent acquisition at this level with the It's Showtime
organization, having beaten the experienced Chris van Venrooij and dropping a decision in what was a contender for 'fight of the year' against close friend Mohammed Khamal
at the end of 2010.
Moroccan-Dutch
The terms Moroccan-Dutch or Dutch-Moroccans refer to immigrants from Morocco to the Netherlands and their descendants. They are one of the larger allochtoon groups, making up 10.4% of the country's total population of foreign background....
middleweight
Middleweight
Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...
-super welterweight Muay Thai
Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
kickboxer
Kickboxing
Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....
fighting out of Amsterdam, Netherlands for Mousid Gym. He is the former W.M.C. Muay Thai
Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
featherweight
Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...
world champion and is currently competing in It's Showtime
It's Showtime
It's Showtime is a kickboxing and mixed martial arts promotion based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded by Simon Rutz in 1998 and held its first show in 1999. They are known to cross promote their events with K-1 and other European promotions from Italy, Belgium and England...
. He is a highly skilled fighter whose matches are often extremely entertaining.
Biography/Career
Mosab began most of his early career fighting at around the 61 kg mark on the local scene in the NetherlandsNetherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
and became one of the countries top prospects in the lower weight classes. He made the transition up in weight to 63.5 kg and made his first impact on the international Muay Thai
Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
scene by defeating the legendary Anuwat Kaewsamrit
Anuwat Kaewsamrit
Anuwat Kaewsamrit is a Thai Muay Thai kickboxer and a former Lumpini and four time Rajadamnern Stadium champion who used to fight out of Kaewsamrit Gym in Bangkok...
via technical knockout at a SLAMM!!
SLAMM!! Events
SLAMM!! Events was a Netherlands based mixed martial arts and thaiboxing promotion based in Almere, Netherlands. They organize their flagship "Nederland vs Thailand" series, a ten-hour marathon of mixed martial arts and kickboxing fights as well as an international events in Spain, Belgium, Italy...
event in 2008 to win his first major honour - the W.M.C. world title.
He held on to his W.M.C. world belt for just seven months when he lost his first title defence against the highly decorated Andrei Kulebin
Andrei Kulebin
Andrei "Bullet" Kulebin is a Belarusian Muay Thai welterweight kickboxer fighting out of Minsk, Belarus for Gym "Kick Fighter"...
at the Champions of Champions II event in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
. Mosab made up for this disappointment in the Autumn of 2009 when he beat one of the worlds top Muay Thai fighters, Bovy Sor Udomson
Bovy Sor Udomson
Bovy Sor Udomson is a Thai Muay Thai kickboxer. He is considered one of the best Muay Thai fighters in the world.-Biography and career:...
, to win the W.M.C. intercontinental title, stopping him in the first round in an extremely impressive victory.
Recently Mosab has made the move up to the 70 kg division where the competition is tougher but the riches are greater. He has so far shown himself to be a decent acquisition at this level with the It's Showtime
It's Showtime
It's Showtime is a kickboxing and mixed martial arts promotion based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded by Simon Rutz in 1998 and held its first show in 1999. They are known to cross promote their events with K-1 and other European promotions from Italy, Belgium and England...
organization, having beaten the experienced Chris van Venrooij and dropping a decision in what was a contender for 'fight of the year' against close friend Mohammed Khamal
Mohammed Khamal
Mohamed "Mootje" Khamal is a Moroccan-Dutch welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer fighting out of Amsterdam, Netherlands for Vos Gym. He is the K-1 World MAX 2010 West Europe champion currently competing in K-1 MAX and It's Showtime....
at the end of 2010.
Titles
- 2009 W.M.C. featherweight intercontinental champion -63.5 kg
- 2009 W.M.C. featherweight world champion -63 kg (0 title defences)
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