Rudi Lubbers 'The Dutch Master'

Have always wondered by the Dutch haven't had any great fighters.

I know combat sports aren't that well received over there (great kickboxers from 80s onwards though) but this guy and 'The Dutch Sonny Liston' rofl) are the only two that come to mind!

 

two big wrongs in you're post.

combat sports are big here. only not boxing.
we have had several kickbox world champs, karate and judo worldchamps and olympic champs.
k1 we rule for several years now.

as for boxing its not a great sport here, but we have had our share of olympic champs adn several european champs and even a few worldchampions.

 

Even though I clearly acknowledged the great kickboxers from your country??! Also, K-1 is a watered down version of Muay Thai, although admittedly some Dutch fighters had success against Thai's. K-1 is dead and to 'rule' it is not that great an achievement in the last few years.

Thanks for the info', I was only referring to professional sports. I cannot recall any World champion boxers from the Netherlands, please enlighten me :good

As for combat sports not being well received, I read an interview with Stefan Struve not long ago saying MMA was banned or something?!? What am I getting mixed up with here?

 

There is not a single good boxing gym in Holland. Not a single one in the entire country. I trained at the same one as Richel Hersisia (Dutch Sonny Liston -- also known as "the big tub of embarassment") and it was populated by young try-outs and salary-men who wanted to keep in shape. Just a recreational gym.

Used to be better in the past, though. My dad trained at that same gym and back then it was pretty packed with talent. To get that step further they had to go to England for matches, though, and mostly got their ass kicked.

That distance was a bit too far for easily distracted youngsters to really stick with it and get better. Just too few quality gyms locally.

In comparison, there's a lot of good kickboxing gyms populated by current ranking fighters.

 

Again, thanks for the insight.

As far as I know the Dutch kickboxing style derived from Kyokushin. So whilst Dekkers had nice hooks I'm not sure it's that ripe for people wanting to make the switch. Whereas Nak Muay train 'international' boxing as well as MT.

 

regilio tuur, alex blanchard, don diego poeder, raymond joval and with the woman esther schouten. where worldchampions.
herman v/t hof, rudi koopmans, alex blanchard, pedro van raamsdonk, orhan delibas, bep van kalveren, nordin ben salah just to name a few all became either european champion or won a medal at the olympics

 

We called him the Uncrowned King.

 

dutch kickboxing
is a mixture
of muay thai-boxing and some kyocshin karate

 

The Dutch oven.

 

Very informative as usual. I do suspect Pepe has an agenda here. Also,as usual