Rob "The Dutchman" Kaman

About Rob Kaman

Rob Kaman, is another big name from Holland. He had over 100 fights and was world champion with many associations WKA, ISKA, IKFB, IMF. He fought out of the famours Mejiro Gym in Amsterdam and made a name for himself in Europe, the Orient and North America.

Rob Kaman History

Rob Kaman was born on 5th June 1960 in Amsterdam. A former Ajax Amsterdam Youth player at the age of sixteen he decided martial arts was where his real interest lay. Kaman first trained in Penjak Silat, an Indonesian art but it was in 1978 when Kaman started training at Mejiro Gym with the legenedary Dutch trainer Jan Plas.

After only four months training Kaman had his first fight against Carillon of France and he lost on points. Losing that fight and how he revamped his training afterwards to go on to acheive what he did is a testament to the Kaman's character. Kaman soon was fighting A-class and winning lots of his fights by knockout. Kaman's first international scalp was Blicky Rodriquez, cousin of Benny urquidez and after that he went to fight in Thailand.

Kaman had his retirement fight in 1999 against Alexi Ignashov of Belarus, the soon to become K1 star. It is a testament to Rob Kaman's character that at the end of the fight he was awarded the decision but handed his trophy to Ignashov and said that he felt Ignashov was the winner.

Not only did he fight bu Kaman appeared in a number of movies. He appeared in Jean Claude Van Damme films such as Double Team, Legionaire and Maximum Risk. He also appeared alongside American martial art star Bill Blanks in Bloodfist in 1989.

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Rob Kaman Titles

Titles that were held by Rob "The Dutchman" Kaman:

WKA World Kickboxing Title - 1983
K2 Tournament Champion

Rob Kaman - notable atheletes that he has fought.

Top atheletes that Rob "The Dutchman" Kaman fought:

Some of these he has fought several times and there are many others not listed here, these are just the most famous.

Denoi (Thailand) - 1983
Lakchart (Thailand) - 1983
John Moncayo (USA) - 1983
Payap Premchai (Thailand) - 1984
Samart Prasanmirt (Thailand) - 1984
Larry McFaden (USA) - 1985
Ernesto Hoost (Holland) - 1986 Roger Hurd - 1986
Sittisak (Thailand) - 1987
Kirkwood Walker (England) -1988
Hansu Premchai (Japan)
Santiago Garza
Peter Smit (Holland)
Rick Roufus (USA)
Don Nakaya (Japan) - 1988
Carmichael (USA) - 1988
Jan Wessels (Holland) - 1989
Luc Verhete (France) - 1991
Mark Russell (England)
Jean Yves Theriault (France) - 1992
Rick Van Dan Vathorst (Holland) - 1993
Jerome Turcan (France) - 1994
Retirement fight: Alexi Ignashov (Russia) - 1999

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