Peter Aerts

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**Peter Aerts**
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Realname	Peter Aerts
Nickname	Lumberjack
Height	height
Weight	Super Heavyweight
Nationality	Dutch
Birth date	October 25, 1970
Birth place	Netherlands
Style	Kickboxing
Team	Team Aerts
Kickboxing Record
Total fights	112
Wins	86
Wins by KO	59
Losses	25
Draws	1

Peter "The Dutch Lumberjack" Aerts (born October 25, 1970) is a Dutch kickboxer and a three time K-1 World Grand Prix Champion. Aerts is best known for his powerful strikes and high kicks. He is considered to be one of the strongest and most complete kickboxers of the last two decades.

1 Biography
2 Career
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Biography

At the age of six, Peter began to play soccer. He continued to do so until his seventeenth birthday. In 1983 he started to practice Tae-Kwon-Do for about two years.

His interest in boxing came at a very early stage of his life, because his grandfather as well as an uncle were active in that field. Unfortunately, his mother never allowed him to actually give in to that urge.

In 1984 he picked up Kickboxing anyway. He started training in "Judoka-Kickboxing" (Best, Holland) with Mekki Benazzous. After a year Peter fought his first match, and soon one victory succeeded the other. This resulted in his first world championship title when he was nineteen.

Peter then switched to another fight club: "Champs" in Eindhoven, with Eddy Smulders, where he became world champion for the second time.

After that he switched to the famous Chakuriki gym of Thom Harinck, where he had the greatest successes. In 1994 Peter became K-1 Champion for the first time, and again in 1995 and 1998. His win in 1998 was his most impressive one. He knocked out all of his opponents in the very first round in a record time of 6:43 minutes. He is also the only fighter who has competed in every K-1 World Grand Prix since its beginning in 1993. That is an absolute record which is not very likely to be broken, at least not any time soon. As of 2006 Peter Aerts won the '98 WGP in the fastest time in K-1 history (6 minutes and 43 seconds)

In 1997 he broke the work relation with his coach Harinck and continued training at the famous Mejiro Gym under trainer Andre Mannaert, a former K-1 fighter himself. Currently Aerts has his own Team Aerts, with Rene Rooze as cornerman.

Aerts competed in the 2006 K-1 World Grand Prix as an alternate, defeating opponent Musashi by first-round knockout. After Remy Bonjasky was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to injury, Aerts met Semmy Schilt in the tournament finals and lost by decision.