Orlando Wiet is a Surinamese-French former world champion kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist.

Career

Kickboxing

Orlando Wiet was training in Breda with

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. He also trained in

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for some periods. Orlando fought at K-1, It's Showtime tournaments. In 1985 Orlando defeated Stephane Nikiema and won European muaithai championship. In 1989 he defeated Omar Benamar and won world title. Orlando defetaed

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in 1995 April. Next defeated fighter was Azem Maksutaj and after that he took part in K-1 Grand Prix tournament in 1995 July, defeating Franz Haller at first round and loss to

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in second round,

who was defeated by Oralndo in previous match won that tournament.

MMA

In 1994 Orlando decided to take part in

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tournament.

was tournament with fighters of different styles. Orlando represented muay-tai. He was lightest fighter among sixteen participants of tournament with 170 pounds of weight. However, in the opening round, he could use his muay thai techniques and defeated Robert Lucarelli via TKO (Corner Stoppage) with elbow, knee strikes and punches. Then, in the quarterfinals, he met tallest and heaviest

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fighter of that tournament, 6.4 tall and 260 pounds

Remco Pardoel Remco Pardoel (born May 23, 1969) is a retired Dutch mixed martial artist. He competed in the heavyweight division. He has fought in promotions such as the UFC, Shooto and Pancrase. He was a junior national champion in Judo in 1988, and a compet ...

. Pardoel could use his weight advantage and Orlando was defeated via TKO and got seriously injured. After next loss to Todd Bjornethun year later Orlando decided to focus on boxing and kickboxing.

Boxing

Orlando Wiet start his boxing career in 1996. And he held boxing matches in parallel with kickboxing. After four win streak he was defeated by Aziz Daari. And next fights were not so successful as in kickboxing. He had matches against such opponents as Byron Mitchell, Bruno Girard.

After retiring

Wiet's career ended in 1999 when he sustained a critical groin injury throwing a high kick in training. Wiet retired from fights in 1999 after 180 fights and number of injuries. However he came back once in 2005, once in 2008 and once in 2011 to fight in MMA. All three fights he loss by submission. Wiet has subsequently worked as a coach, training fighters such as Karim Souda .

Personal life

Orlando Wiet was married to

Valérie Hénin Valérie Hénin French boxer, kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter. She is a former ISKA World Kickboxing champion and the former WIBF Welterweight boxing champion. Boxing On Valerie Henin boxing debut she fought Mary Ann Almager in order to become ...

, female boxer with 2-0-1 record in professional boxing and kickboxer with 0–2 record. Valerie helped her husband in training for part of his matches. The couple broke up a little later. From this marriage, Orlando has a daughter, taekwondo world champion Magda Wiet-Hénin.

Titles and achievements

* European

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Champion * 5 time world

Champion * WTC Super Middleweight World Champion 1997

Mixed martial arts record

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Combined kickboxing and muaythai record (Incomplete)

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Professional boxing record

References

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