K-1 World Championship

The New Champion 2009

Semmy Schilt

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 In the last final of 2009, Sem beats Badr Hari by a Time Knock Out in the first round. Both fighters started aggresively, but Semmy was the one who hitted Badr Hari most effeciently. Badr Hari failed to hold his hands high enough, which was an advantage for Sem. With quick punches he knocked Badr Hari out which was very spectacair.

 He has won his fourth GP title, and also getting the record of fastest GP win with a total time over all 3 matches of 5:53 minutes. With this win, Semmy Schilt became the 2nd man in history who have win the WGP Title four times (Ernesto Hoost, Dutch as well, has been the first).

Here you can see the last final:

General information about Semmy Schilt:

Semmy Schilt, also known as the highlander, is a professional Dutch K1 fighter. Semmy has developed multiple fight styles such as; kickbox, mixed martial artists, Ashihara karate and MMA which is a kind of free fighting. Since K-1 is very popular at the moment, there is a lot of money to make with. The last championship Semmy has won (2009) was good for 400.000 dollar!

In my opinion, Semmy does not have the perfect fight style, but as he is very big, heavy and immense strong, he is one of the best fighters of this world. Especially the knees of Sem are deadly as he can easily reach your head by a knee strike.

Other records of Semmy Schilt are:

• 2009 K-1 World Grand Prix Champion

• 2008 current K-1 Super Heavyweight Champion

• 2007 K-1 World Grand Prix Champion

• 2007 K-1 Super Heavyweight Champion

• 2006 K-1 World Grand Prix Champion

• 2005 K-1 World Grand Prix Champion

• 2005 K-1 World Grand Prix in Paris Champion

• 1999 9th King of Pancrase

• 2 times Daido Juku Hokutoki champion. open-weight division, 1996/1997

• 2 times IBK (International Budo Kai) European Champion Full contact karate (Knockdown karate rules) 1995/1996

• 3 times IBK (International Budo Kai) Dutch Champion Full contact karate (Knockdown karate rules) 1993/1994/1995

For more information, please refer the Website of Semmy: http://www.semschilt.com/