Robin "Pokerface" van Roosmalen is a Dutch

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 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...

 kickboxer, fighting out of Den Bosch, Netherlands

Netherlands

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...

. Van Roosmalen trains at Fight Club Den Bosch under his father William van Roosmalen, the only man to knock Vitali Klitschko

Vitali Klitschko

Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...

 out, and William Beekwilder. Van Roosmalen is currently under contract with 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...

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Biography and career

Van Roosmalen made it to the Semi-Finals of the K-1 World MAX West Europe Tournament by beating Henri van Opstal in the Quarter-Final. He lost his Semi-Final bout against the eventual winner 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....

 by KO.

After losing another fight against Ajay Balgobind, Van Roosmalen rebounded by knocking out Dutch slugger William Diender with a liver punch and beating the highly regarded Dutch-Moroccan Chahid Oulad El Hadj

Chahid Oulad El Hadj

Chahid "The Pitbull" Oulad El Hadj is a Moroccan-Dutch welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer, fighting out of Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands....

 by decision. On the , Van Roosmalen met 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....

 in a rematch in Amsterdam. He lost the match by judges' decision.

On the 25th of September, 2011, Van Roosmalen won the It's Showtime "Fast & Furious 70MAX" title in Brussels. He beat Chahid Oulad El Hadj

Chahid Oulad El Hadj

Chahid "The Pitbull" Oulad El Hadj is a Moroccan-Dutch welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer, fighting out of Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands....

for the 2nd time by TKO in the second round, Chris Ngimbi by decision and Artur Kyshenko by KO in the first round. Van Roosmalen had entered the tournament as a replacement for 70MAX giant Giorgio Petrosyan, who had injured himself in his fight against Hinata, and was seen as an underdog to win the tournament over the more highly ranked and experienced Artur Kyshenko.

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