Murthel Groenhart Voorbereiding Glory 31 HD

THE PEOPLE’S CHAMP AND TOURNAMENT KILLER: MURTHEL “THE PREDATOR” GROENHART Murthel Groenhart was born on October 10 1986 in the city of Amsterdam with roots from the beautiful country Suriname. He was raised in a big family having 5 brothers and sisters. At the age of 15 years Murthel was getting rebellious as he liked to hang out on the streets with his friends goofing around and doing things that could get him arrested. Luckily for him and his family he found his passion in sports. Playing soccer is the number one outside activity of the youth in Holland especially in Amsterdam. While they are plenty of fields to play soccer Murthel and his friends used the shopping mall as their courtyard. Many people shopping didn’t had the guts to talk back to them youngsters except one man, Michael Passenier aka Mike. While Mike was shopping with his family he got hit with the ball and he wasn’t happy that these kids used his shopping mall as playground so he told them to play elsewhere. Well, Murthel and his friends weren’t taking that so a verbal sparring session was the result. Mike dared the guys to come to his gym and see if they still have a big mouth. Murthel was brave and said that he will accept the challenge so the same evening Murthel and his friends entered the gym with the same attitude but got humiliated by Mike during sparring. That was the moment Murthel knew that only a big mouth and the right attitude isn’t enough to become champion in life so he kept coming back and he never left. He started his professional career in 2004 at the age of 18 and was undefeated for two years straight. In 2007 he competed in his first tournament in Poland winning all three fights via (T)KO and became the -75kg Angels of Fire winner. He continued to do well as tournament fighter when he won the K-1 Italy Oktagon defeating all of his three opponents via KO in a sold out arena in the beautiful Milan. During his career Groenhart have fought in all the major kickboxing promotions and has fought over 85 fights. One of his biggest achievements came in 2012 where he entered the big K-1 World Max tournament after qualifying himself for the tournament by defeating Harut Grigorian via KO in the third round at the final 16 event in Japan. In December that year 8 of the best lightweights came to Greece, Athene for the most prestige kickboxing tournament in the world. Groenhart was the big underdog that night but he shocked the world by defeating Yasuhiro Kido in the quarterfinal, hometown favorite Mike Zambidis in the semifinal and Artur Kyshenko in the final and you guessed it; all by KO! After that tournament there was no doubt that Groenhart is one of the best welterweight fighters in the world. He’s now the number one contender for the Glory belt and has proved it the hard way by winning two 4 man Glory contender tournaments back to back. The current champion Nieky Holzken is considered by many to be the pound for pound best fighter in the world but still he holds two