Salvatore "Sam" Greco (born 3 May 1967) is an Australian retired

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ka,

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. He was the 1994 Karate World Cup champion and holds notable kickboxing victories over Branko Cikatic,

Ernesto Hoost Ernesto Frits Hoost (born 11 July 1965) is a Dutch retired kickboxer. A four-time K-1 World Champion, Hoost is considered to be one of the greatest kickboxers of all time. Debuting in 1993 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 1993, where he came just on ...

Mike Bernardo Michael Shawn Bernardo (28 July 1969 – 14 February 2012) was a South African kickboxer and boxer from Cape Town. Bernardo was known as Beru-chan in Japan, where he has taken part in K-1 World GPs since 1994. He holds notable wins ove ...

Stefan Leko Stefan Leko (born June 3, 1974) is a German heavyweight kickboxer. He is the current WKA Super-Heavyweight world champion in kickboxing, and former Muay Thai world heavyweight champion and Kickboxing world super-heavyweight champion, WMTA, WKN, ...

, and

Ray Sefo Ray Sefo (born 15 February 1971) is a New Zealand fight promoter and retired kickboxer, boxer, and mixed martial artist of Samoan descent. He was the K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 Runner Up, is a six-time Muay Thai World Champion, and was an eig ...

, as well as MMA victories over

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and

Shungo Oyama Shungo Oyama ( 峻護 ''Ōyama Shungo'' ; born April 11, 1974) is a Japanese former professional mixed martial artist. A professional competitor from 2001 to 2014, he competed for the PRIDE Fighting Championships, Pancrase, RINGS, DREAM, K-1, a ...

Biography and career

Salvatore Greco was born on 3 May 1967, in

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, Australia and grew up in the suburb of Brunswick. In 2015, Greco stated that he considered the part of Brunswick that he grew up in was 'rough' at the time, and ultimately contributed to his fitness & mental development from a young age. His Italian-born father, Vittorio, encouraged him to get involved with

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from an early age and joined the local Italian backed club,

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Soccer

Greco joined Juventus (later Brunswick United Juventus) at the age of six, playing as a junior for nine years where in 1983 he would win the club's best-and-fairest for their under-sixteen squad. Prior to the 1984 National Soccer League season, Greco signed a one-year semi-professional contract with the senior squad, who had just been promoted from the Victorian State Premier League to the former national league, making him the club's youngest player to sign for the senior squad. Greco made his national debut in the fifth round of the season on 1 April 1984, two days before his seventeenth birthday. Greco started and played the whole home match against

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at Gillon oval that finished in a 0–2 loss. At the conclusion of the season and after ten years playing for his local club, Greco decided to focus solely on karate and discontinued his soccer career at the age of seventeen.

Karate

Greco started training in

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karate at the age of 11 and commenced tournament fighting at the age of 18 establishing himself as one of Australia's best Kyokushin fighters in the late 1980s and early 1990s winning the heavyweight division of the Australian championships five times in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992. In 1988, he fought in the heavyweight division of the 1st Commonwealth Karate Championships held in Sydney placing 3rd with English champion Michael Thompson winning. In 1991, he competed in the 5th World Open Tournament in

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losing to Michael Thompson in the first round on decision due to accidentally punching him in the face. In 1992, he competed in the heavyweight division of the Oyama Cup Singapore International Open in

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placing 3rd with

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n Walter Schnaubelt winning. After the Singapore tournament in October 1992, Sam left Kyokushin fighting as an amateur to join

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karate to become a professional karate fighter. Fellow Kyokushin champion

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had recently joined Seidokaikan and won the 2nd Karate World Cup in October and then in 1993 Michael Thompson also joined Seidokaikan. In June 1993, Sam had his first karate fight at the K-1 Sanctuary III a kickboxing tournament promoted by Seidokaikan karate founder Kazuyoshi Ishii. Sam fought Keisuke Nakagawa who had placed 6th in the 2nd Karate World Cup. In October 1993, Sam competed in the 3rd Karate World Cup defeating Minoru Fujita to make the quarter finals to fight Toshiyuki Atokawa with the judges decision a draw after the first round, and again in the second round, with the fight awarded to Toshiyuki Atokawa on weight difference, who went on to place 3rd. In October 1994, Sam competed in the 4th Karate World Cup making the final after winning four fights. In the final he fought Michael Thompson winning in the first round with a left low kick followed by a straight right body shot to become the Karate World Cup Champion.

K-1

Sam had his K-1 debut in 1995 at K-1 Hercules. Following year he appeared in his first

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tournament where he suffered his first loss in semifinals against Musashi. After retiring in 2005 from professional competition, Sam Greco worked as trainer for other fighters, including

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Professional wrestling

Greco was originally signed to

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company

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, but never wrestled for them, as it folded before he could debut beyond a backstage vignette. He would not make his wrestling debut until November 2002, when he signed up by

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, then a co-promotion between K-1 and

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. In the first Wrestle-1 event, Greco teamed up with masked

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exponent

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against

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and Taiyo Kea, all while wearing his own mask and playing a Dos Caras body double named "Sam Grecaras". They won, with Greco receiving good reviews in the process. He wrestled again in December 2003, appearing in AJPW to team up with

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and

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against

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from the villainous faction RO&D. His third and last venture in professional wrestling would be two years later, as part of the briefly revived Wrestle-1 concept. This time he formed a team with fellow K-1 fighter Jan Nortje against Giant Bernard and The Predator, who defeated them when Bernard pinned Nortje.

Acting career

In 1995 Greco had a small part as an enforcer in the Richard Norton movie '' Under the Gun'', also known as ''Iron Fist'', which was filmed in Victoria. He played the stunt double for retired professional wrestler

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in the 2007 action thriller ''

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'' and also had a small part in the 2008 Australian boxing drama film, '' Two Fists One Heart'' which was shot in

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. He has also appeared occasionally in movies as a fight consultant and martial arts advisor. He had a small part in the fourth episode of the Australian mini-series ''

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'', playing nightclub bouncer Bruno Bolotzi. The episode was first broadcast in February 2008. He had a small part in an episode of the Australian comedy ''

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'', playing the Roman soldier Glutious Maximus. He made another appearance for Pizza this time in a two-part episode ''Holiday Pizza'', playing Pauly's Italian cousin Luigi. The last appearance he made in Pizza was in the ''Cracker Pizza'' episode, playing Crackerus in the last season of the series. He also had a part in the Australian comedy ''

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'' as Louie "Luigi" Marietti. Both Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers were created by Greco's good friend

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. He played the Masked Wrestler Zarkos in ''

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''. In the movie Zarkos appears as one of N'Goo Tuana's henchmen, but later he sneaks up on Daphne and captures her and steals the Daemon Ritus from her. Later in the movie he tries to sneak up on Daphne and capture her again but instead they end up fighting; near the end of the fight, he grabs Daphne and throws her onto his back and puts her in a hold but she escapes and defeats him.

Personal life

On 23 March 2018, Greco suffered a

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prior to and during his fighter

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competing in the Hex Fight Series and had

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surgery.

Titles and accomplishments

* 1999 K-1 World Grand Prix 3rd Place * 1999 W.A.K.O. Pro World Muay Thai Super Heavyweight Champion * 1995 The Best of the Best Tournament Champion * 1994 W.K.A. World Muay Thai Super Heavyweight Heavyweight Champion * 1994 Seidokaikan Karate World Cup Champion * 5 time Australian Kyokushin Karate Heavyweight Champion

Kickboxing record

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