Martin Kampmann Frederiksen
Martin Kampmann Frederiksen, or simply Martin Kampmann is a Danish mixed martial artist currently in the middleweight category, fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada and Training at Xtreme Couture. Martin Kampmann is popularly known as ‘The Hitman’. Martin Kampmann was born on April 17, 1982 in Aarhus, Denmark. He has a remarkable overall mixed martial arts record of 12 – 1 – 0 (12 wins, 1 loss and no draws).
Kampmann practiced some karate in his childhood. However his backdrop was truly in Thaiboxing that he started in the year 1998. initially it was for fun till he had his pioneer fight in the year 2000. Martin undertook training in Kung Fu Toa center in his Aarhus, his hometown. After that, he undertook shootfighting with the website shootersmma.com and also indulged in some amateur MMA fights. He began his usual boxing and also had some amateur fights there. Kampmann’s background may be chiefly stand up fighting, however, he has also a decent ground game and wrestling too. Kampmann started doing Thai boxing, moved on to boxing then submission wrestling, amateur MMA, till professional wretling, at present.
Kampmann currently studies engineering and before wrestling did many part-time jobs with his academic schedules. Kampmann has been a Cage Warriors middleweight champion and a former Danish Thai boxing champion. He is presently combating in the UFC [Ultimate Fighting Championship]. In his debut at UFC Fight Night, he defeated Crafton Wallace in an event of full-round submission. Later on, in The Ultimate Fighter 4 Finale on November 11th, 2006, Kampmann overcame Thales Leites.
Kampmann now manages his own MMA gym below the Shooters MMA organization called ‘Kung Fu Toa Shootfighting’. Martin is an upcoming Shootfighter himself, and despite his young age is an experienced fighter. He is without any doubt an awesome grabbler but his fight record reveals that he is no stranger to stand-up fighting. Martin had his Mixfight debut In Vikingfight III against Gert Mannaerts from Belgium. Martin defeated his opponent in the first round by throwing punches from the mount. Kampmann is also allied with Tito Ortiz's ‘Team Punishment’.
Kampmann’s next UFC fight was stipulated for UFC 72 in opposition to Rich "Ace" Franklin, however he had to withdraw because he suffered from a knee injury. With Martin Kampmann off the UFC 72 card, former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin (21-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) confirmed that he’ll instead fight in the main-event bout. Former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin will look to stop the informed Martin Kampmann, in their next fight on June 16 in Ireland. It’s not clear as yet whether or not this is a UFC Fight Night special or a pay-per-view (PPV) event.
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