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}} Igor Jurković (born 15 July 1985) is a Croatian heavyweight kickboxer fighting out of Poreč, Croatia. He was 6 times Croatian national champion 2004, 2005, 2006 in Thai boxing, and kickboxing champion 2005 in full contact, 2005 and 2006 in low kick rules, and also was sparring partner of Mirko Cro Cop. He has fought in K-1 and he is under contract with Glory promotion. As of 2 November 2015, he is ranked the #8 light heavyweight in the world by GLORY.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fighters Rankings )〕 ==Biography and Career== Igor "The Istrian Warrior" Jurković was born in the city of Poreč, Croatia. He started kickboxing after watching Mirko Filipović knocking out Mike Bernardo, and as Bernardo was falling down, a new kickboxer, decisive to continue Croatian kickbox glory was rising. Igor was six time Croatian kickboxing champion, also W.A.K.O. amateur world champion under Muay Thai rules, also winning bronze and silver medals on other W.A.K.O. championships. "Le Grand Tournoi" He was K-1 Rules "Le Grand Tournoi" 2006 champion. He had a walkthrough in quarter finals because Frédérique Bellonie, last year's champion, suffered injury before tournament. In semi finals he defeated Frédéric Sinistra and won tournament defeating Magomed Magomedov in the final. Tournament was promoted by the K-1 organisation, it was only a prize tournament, not a K-1 qualifying tournament. After that he had a break in his career because of injury sustained while falling off the motorcycle, but successfully returned to kickboxing and won few international tournaments. Gloden Glory In 2011 he signed for Golden Glory, and successfully passed his first test on United Glory 14 event. He knocked down Pavel Zhuravlev in the first round, in the second round he dropped Pavel and broke his nose, causing ringside doctor to stop the fight. After the fight ''Head Kick Legend'' magazine ranked Jurkovic as 20. heavyweight kickboxer on August 2011.〔(KICKBOXING RANKINGS HEAVYWEIGHTS )〕 He "sneaked" there due to a Win against Zhuravlev. It was later announced that Jurković is scheduled to participate on ''K-1 World Grand Prix 2011 in Nanjing Final 16'' on October 29. 2011, however the event was canceled as K-1 was suffering from financial problems. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Igor Jurković」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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