Glaube Feitosa

Glaube "Brazilian Warrior" Feitosa (born April 9, 1973) is a Brazilian former kickboxer and a kyokushin full contact karate practitioner who was competing in K-1. In 2005, Feitosa won K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Las Vegas tournament and was the K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 finalist. While living in Tokyo, Japan he fought and trained in the IKO1 Kyokushin - Team Ichigeki at the Ichigeki Plaza. Throughout his career he was known as one of the best non-champions to fight in the K-1, a position he earned with his wins over non-champion fighters, such as Ruslan Karaev, Musashi, Gary Goodridge and Junichi Sawayashiki. He also went the distance with some of the top fighters in his time, such as Peter Aerts, Remy Bonjasky, Semmy Schilt and Errol Zimmerman.^[1] He holds victories over Cheick Kongo and KO victory of Alistair Overeem.

Biography and career

On April 30, 2005, Feitosa won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Las Vegas tournament with a unanimous decision over Dewey Cooper and two knockouts over Carter Williams and Gary Goodridge. At the eliminations he lost by decision to Semmy Schilt.

As a reserve fighter Glaube beat Goodridge by unanimous decision and advanced to the semi finals after Peter Aerts had to pull out due to a rib fracture, where he knocked out Musashi with a flying knee to get to the finals where he rematched Semmy Schilt. Glaube lost the fight by a first round KO after a knee to the head.

As a WGP runner up he fought at the 2006 eliminations, beating Paul Slowinski by unanimous decision. He knocked out Ruslan Karaev in the first round and advanced to the semi finals, losing by TKO in the second round to Peter Aerts.

On September 29, 2007 Feitosa met German kickboxer Chalid Arrab at the K-1 World GP 2007 in Seoul Final 16. He won the fight by unanimous decision and qualified himself for K-1 World GP 2007 Final held on December 8, 2007 at the Yokohama Arena, Japan.

Feitosa met two-time defending champion Semmy Schilt. His opponent brought in a style that surprised everybody worldwide, including feitosa who seemed done for after the first round. Glaube had his big moment at the start of the second round where his famed Brazilian kick almost dropped Semmy, who was wobbled but recovered and continued to keep Glaube away. Although surviving the third round Glaube lost a unanimous decision to Semmy for the third time.

After knocking out Alex Roberts in March 2008, Glaube fought for the new Heavyweight title against Badr Hari at the K-1 World GP 2008 in Fukuoka. Glaube was knocked out in the first round.

At the K-1 World GP 2008 Final 16 Glaube fought the 2008 Amsterdam Champion, Errol Zimmerman. Glaube lost a unanimous decision after being battered by the heavy hands of his oppoenent over three rounds.

In 2009 Glaube knocked out Junichi Sawayashiki and was voted in by the fans to fight at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final 16, in a rematch against Errol Zimmerman. Glaube looked a lot better in the fight then their first fight and expected a draw. Zimmerman however won by a controversial decision. Glaube has most recently been recruited by Maurico Shogun Rua to help him prepare for his upcoming fight with Lyoto Machida.

Titles

• K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 - Final 8
• K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 - Final 8
• K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 - Final 8
• K-1 World Grand Prix 2006 - Final 8 (3rd place)
• K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 - Final 8 (2nd place)
• 2005 K-1 World Grand Prix Runner Up
• 2005 K-1 World Grand Prix in Las Vegas Champion
• 2005 MVP in Kyokushin Karate World Cup in Paris
• 2003 No.4 in 8th Kyokushin World Open Tournament Championship
• 1999 No.4 in 7th Kyokushin World Open Tournament Championship
• 1997 2nd Place in All World Karate-do Championship-Heavyweight
• 1997 America's Cup Karate-do Champion
• 1997 All South American Karate-do Champion
• 1997 All Brazil Karate-do Champion
• 1996 All Brazil Karate-do Champion
• 1995 No.8 in 6th Kyokushin World Open Tournament Championship

Kickboxing record

17 Wins (11 (T)KO's, 6 Decisions), 17 Losses, 1 Draw Date Result Opponent Event Location Method Round Time Record 2009-09-26 Loss Errol Zimmerman K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final 16 Seoul, Korea Decision (Majority) 3 3:00 17-17-1 2009-03-28 Win Junichi Sawayashiki K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 in Yokohama Yokohama, Japan KO (Left Straight Punch) 2 0:48 17-16-1 2008-09-27 Loss Errol Zimmerman K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Seoul Final 16 Seoul, Korea Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 16-16-1 2008-06-29 Loss Badr Hari K-1 World GP 2008 in Fukuoka Fukuoka, Japan KO (Right hook) 1 2:26 16-15-1 Fight was for K-1 Heavyweight (-100kg) title. 2008-04-13 Win Alex Roberts K-1 World GP 2008 in Yokohama Yokohama, Japan KO (Left high kick) 2 1:58 16-14-1 2007-12-08 Loss Semmy Schilt K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 Final Tokyo, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 15-14-1 2007-09-29 Win Chalid Arrab K-1 World GP 2007 in Seoul Final 16 Seoul, Korea Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 15-13-1 2007-04-28 Loss Remy Bonjasky K-1 World Grand Prix 2007 in Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii Decision (Majority) 3 3:00 14-13-1 2006-12-02 Loss Peter Aerts K-1 World Grand Prix 2006 semi final Tokyo, Japan TKO (Referee stoppage) 2 1:02 14-12-1 2006-12-02 Win Ruslan Karaev K-1 World Grand Prix 2006 quarter final Tokyo, Japan KO (Left High kick) 1 1:11 14-11-1 2006-09-30 Win Paul Slowinski K-1 World Grand Prix 2006 in Osaka Opening Round Osaka, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 13-11-1 2006-07-30 Win Musashi K-1 World Grand Prix 2006 in Sapporo Sapporo, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 12-11-1 2005-11-19 Loss Semmy Schilt K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 final Tokyo, Japan KO (Knee strike) 1 0:48 11-11-1 Fight was for K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 title. 2005-11-19 Win Musashi K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 semi final Tokyo, Japan KO (Jumping knee) 2 1:05 11-10-1 2005-11-19 Win Gary Goodridge K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 reserve fight Tokyo, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 10-10-1 2005-09-23 Loss Semmy Schilt K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Osaka - Final Elimination Osaka, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 9-10-1 2005-04-30 Win Gary Goodridge K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Las Vegas final Las Vegas, Nevada KO (Left High kick) 1 2:40 9-9-1 Wins K-1 World GP 2005 in Las Vegas title. 2005-04-30 Win Carter Williams K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Las Vegas semi final Las Vegas, Nevada TKO (Ref stop/three knockdowns) 2 2:56 8-9-1 2005-04-30 Win Dewey Cooper K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Las Vegas quarter final Las Vegas, Nevada Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 7-9-1 2005-03-19 Win Cheick Kongo Ichigeki Paris 2005 Paris, France Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 6-9-1 2004-09-25 Loss Ernesto Hoost K-1 World Grand Prix 2004 Final Elimination Osaka, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 5-9-1 2004-07-17 Win Toa K-1 World Grand Prix 2004 in Seoul Seoul, Korea KO (Left high kick) 1 1:49 5-8-1 2004-05-30 Win Alistair Overeem Kyokushin vs K-1 2004 All Out Battle Tokyo, Japan KO (Left Hook) 1 2:13 4-8-1 2003-02-22 Win Pavel Majer Ichigeki 2003 Japan Japan KO 3 3-8-1 2002-10-05 Loss Peter Aerts K-1 World Grand Prix 2002 Final Elimination Osaka, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 2-8-1 2002-07-14 Loss Martin Holm K-1 World Grand Prix 2002 in Fukuoka Fukuoka, Japan KO (Punch) 1 2:20 2-7-1 2002-03-03 Draw Musashi K-1 World Grand Prix 2002 in Nagoya Nagoya, Japan Decision Draw 5 3:00 2-6-1 2001-10-08 Loss Michael McDonald K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 in Fukuoka Fukuoka, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 2-6 2001-03-17 Win Tsuyoshi Nakasako K-1 Gladiators 2001 Yokohama, Japan KO (Left high kick) 2 0:57 2-5 2000-10-09 Loss Mirko Filipović K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 in Fukuoka Fukuoka, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 1-5 2000-08-05 Loss Tomasz Kucharzewski K-1 USA Championships 2000 semi final Las Vegas, Nevada TKO 1 2:03 1-4 2000-08-05 Win George Randolph K-1 USA Championships 2000 quarter final Las Vegas, Nevada KO (Punch) 1 1:07 1-3 2000-04-23 Loss Andy Hug K-1 The Millennium Osaka, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 5 3:00 0-3 1998-09-27 Loss Masaaki Satake K-1 World Grand Prix '98 Opening Round Osaka, Japan Decision (Majority) 5 3:00 0-2 1998-07-18 Loss Mike Bernardo K-1 Dream '98 Nagoya, Japan TKO 1 1:42 0-1 Legend:       Win       Loss       Draw/No contest       Notes

See also

• List of K-1 events
• List of K-1 champions
• List of male kickboxers
• List of kickboxing organizations

References

External links

• Profile at K-1

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