| Manson Gibson | |
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| Born | May 5, 1963 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Other names | The Master Blaster |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb; 13 st) |
| Division | Middleweight Super Middleweight Light Heavyweight Cruiserweight |
| Style | Kung Fu, Muay Thai |
| Fighting out of | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Team | Windy City Gym |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 119 |
| Wins | 103 |
| By knockout | 63 |
| Losses | 14 |
| Draws | 2 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 1 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Losses | 1 |
| By submission | 1 |
| Amateur career | |
| Total | 11 |
| Wins | 10 |
| By knockout | 8 |
| Losses | 1 |
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Manson "The Master Blaster" Gibson (born May 5, 1963) is a retired American kickboxer and a nine time Muay Thai and kickboxing world champion. He was known for his vicious use of spinning techniques and awkward style and was sometimes referred to as the "Thai Killer". No stranger to controversy and a master of getting under his opponents skin Manson Gibson was nevertheless one of the United States' greatest ever kickboxers and is credited with over 100 wins and more than 80 KOs, including around thirty via headkicks.
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After a series of early career wins and claiming titles such as the K.I.C.K. super middleweight world champion belt, Manson found the competition at home (aside from two losses to Rick Roufus) uninspiring. So in the late eighties and well into the nineties, while many American fighters were fighting one another for a multitude of so-called 'world titles', Manson headed across to Japan where he fought and beat top fighters such as Caesar Takeshi, Luc Verheye, Tosca Petridis and Changpuek Kiatsongrit, often fighting under different rule sets such as Shoot boxing, K-1 and Muay Thai.
During his period spent fighting in Japan Manson entered the inaugural K-2 Grand Prix in 1993. K-2 was a short lived series of tournaments held by the K-1 organization for [[light heavyweight kickboxers and the 1993 event was held in Tokyo. In the tournament quarter finals he faced the highly decorated Ernesto Hoost, with Hoost, the recent K-1 heavyweight grand prix runner up, the strong favorite and on his way to becoming a legend. Gibson proved in that fight that he could hang with the world's best, even knocking Hoost down with his trademark spinning backfist. However, despite the knockdown, the match went to an extra round and Manson lost the decision – a fight which some felt he did enough to win.
Manson returned to the United States around 1998, defeating a former legend (albeit an unfit, out of shape one) in Coban Lookchaomaesaitong. The match in Compton, Los Angeles, was one in which Manson, no stranger to controversy, had the MC announce himself as the ‘Thai killer’ and at the end of the fight did back flips next to the prone Coban. That year Manson also won the I.K.K.C. Muaythai world title by defeating fellow American Maurice Travis, also in Los Angeles. Over the next couple of years he would defend his I.K.K.C. world title a further four times with the highlight being a second victory over x7 world champion Changpuek Kiatsongrit – although as with the Coban fight his match antics left a sour taste in the mouth.
Around 2002 age started catching up with Gibson who was approaching his forties and he lost his I.K.K.C. world title to the US based Frenchman Manu N'toh. A win against Heath Harris in 2004 for the I.K.F. proved he could still be competitive, although his opponent Harris had only had a handful of pro fights prior to the encounter. Always one to try different fighting styles Gibson had a brief foray into MMA in 2006, losing in just five seconds. By the end of 2009, with the losses stacking up after a series of unsuccessful title fights, Manson retired.
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103 Wins (63 (T)KO's), 14 Losses, 2 Draws[1]
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0 Wins, 1 Loss[29]
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