Petr Nakonechnyi is a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 welterweight

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...

 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, fighting out of the Captain Odessa gym in Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

. He is the K-1 MAX Ukraine 2006 and K-1 Europe MAX 2008 in Poland Champion.

Biography and career

After making his name by winning numerous national and world 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...

 titles, Nakonechnyi entered the 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...

 promotion at K-1 East Europe MAX 2006 in March 2006 in Lithuania, where he defeated Belarusian fighter Vasily Shish

Vasily Shish

Vasily "Torero" Shish is a Belarusian Muay Thai middleweight kickboxer fighting out of Minsk, Belarus for the Chinuk Gym. He is a five time world and five time European Muaythai and kickboxing champion who has won titles at both amateur and professional level...

. On November 24, 2006, he entered the 8-man Grand Prix at K-1 MAX Ukraine 2006 and won the tournament by defeating Dmitry Konstantinov, Aleksander Medvedev and Artem Sheglov.

In March the following year, he was invited to take part in the Grand Prix at K-1 East Europe MAX 2007 in Ukraine but was eliminated by Jurij Boreiko in the quarter-finals. He bounced back at K-1 Europe MAX 2008 in Poland in April 2008, however, as he advanced past Andrei Buda and Yury Harbachiov before defeating Michał Głogowski

Michał Głogowski

Michał Głogowski is a Polish welterweight kickboxer fighting out of Siedlce for TKKF Siedlce. He is a one time world pro and two time European amateur kickboxing champion and K-1 Europe MAX 2008 in Poland runner up currently competing in K-1 MAX.-Amateur career:Michal won his first amateur...

 in the tournament final.

Titles

• 2008 Busan TAFISA World Games IFMA Amateur Muay Thai 71 kg Gold medal
• 2008 K-1 Europe MAX in Poland tournament champion
• 2007 IFMA World Muay Thai Championships Bronze medal -75 kg
• 2007 Ukrainian Muay Thai champion (-75 kg)
• 2006 IFMA World Muay Thai Championships Silver medal -75 kg
• 2006 K-1 Ukraine MAX tournament champion
• 2005 10th Muay Thai National Championship of Ukraine champion (71 kg)
• 2004 IFMA World Muay Thai Championships Bronze medal -71 kg
• 2003 IFMA World Muay Thai Championships Silver medal 67 kg

Kickboxing record

Kickboxing record
Legend:

See also

• 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...
  
  
• List of K-1 events
• List of male kickboxers
• List of kickboxing organizations