Alexey Ignashov

Alexey "The Red Scorpion" Ignashov (born, January 18, 1978) is a Belarusian Super Heavyweight kickboxer. He is a four time Muay Thai World champion, K-1 World GP 2003 in Paris and K-1 World GP 2001 in Nagoya tournament champion.^[1] He is currently living in Auckland, New Zealand and training at Balmoral Lee Gar Gym under Lollo Heimuli.

Biography

He is best known for his knee strikes, notably used to score knockout wins over Badr Hari, Semmy Schilt, Nicholas Pettas, and Carter Williams. Ignashov is considered by his fans to be one of the most talented and technically sound heavyweight kickboxers in the world. However, he is also considered by many frustratingly inconsistent, occasionally appearing lackluster or inactive in the ring, such as in his K-1 Final quarterfinal match against Peter Aerts in 2003. He suffered a knee injury in a fight against Bjorn Bregy in 2005. Since then, his performance has diminished.
Ignashov trained in the Chinuk gym for 11 years, before immigrating to New Zealand in 2006.
He has beaten the best kickboxers in the world, including decision wins over three times K-1 champions Remy Bonjasky and Peter Aerts and knockout highlight reel wins over two currently best kickboxers in the world Semmy Schilt and Badr Hari. He has also fought legendary Rob Kaman, losing by decision, but after that fight Rob gave the trophy to Ignashov. Despite all that huge wins, he has lost some bouts where he was a huge favorite. He was TKO only two times, each time because of injury, against Bjorn Bregy in 2005 and in his 2009 bout against 2003 French Kickboxing champion Freddy Kemayo.
After 5 years of been out of the major ring events Iggy was granted his wish to return to K-1 in April 2010 against Badr Hari, having one of the best chins in the sport. However he was very inactive in the ring and lost by unanimous decision. He was heavely criticized by the fans after the fight. Ignashov announced that he wants to have a rubber match with Badr Hari after he has a few more K-1 fights to get used to the big ring again. Just recently competing in his 99 official fight while winning with Freddy Kemayo.

Titles

Professional:

• 2003 K-1 World Grand Prix 2003 in Paris Champion
• 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 in Nagoya Champion
• 2000 K-1 Belarus Grand Prix 2000 Champion
• 2000 I.S.K.A. World Heavyweight Champion
• 2000 W.M.C. Muay Thai World Heavyweight Champion
• 2000 W.P.K.L. Muay Thai European Champion
• 1999 W.M.C. Muay Thai World Heavyweight Champion
• 1999 I.S.K.A. World Heavyweight Champion

Amateur

• 1999 I.A.M.T.F. Amateur Muay Thai World Championships -91 kg
• 1997 European Amateur Muay Thai Heavyweight Champion -91 kg

Kickboxing record
Total	99
Wins	80
By knockout	41
Losses	19
By knockout	2