*** THE CURRENTLY RULING FORCE IN K-1 TODAY ***

Damn it, I totally lost for quite a while the categoy of 'Sports' out of my sight here on this very blog. Damn, fuck it!!! I'm very sorry, so if you had been waiting for it, here it comes!!! Next on my 'Sports' roadmap is a tribute post to SEMMY SCHILT, the currently ruling force in the K-1 scene of today.

SEMMY "HIGHTOWER" SCHILT

SEMMY SCHILT was born on the 23. October of the year of 1973 in the Dutch Republic respectively the Netherlands in the dutch city of Rotterdam. He weighs today something between 128 and 133 kilogram, and he is about 2,12 meters tall, and that's how he got his nickname or fighting name "HIGHTOWER" in K-1. He was european champion in karate and was fighting in the federations of "Pancrase" and "Pride" before he moved over to K-1. In the K-1 world his first really big success- and what a success it was- came to happen in 2005 when he won the K-1 World Grand Prix, carrying on the long and proud tradition of supreme dutch fighters in K-1. (Just to name PETER AERTS, ERNESTO HOOST, and REMY BONJASKY.) He defeated in the first round of the tournament the legendary RAY SEFO, the legend from New Zealand, going on to defeat the then two times, now three times dutch K-1 champion REMY BONJASKY (via Knock Out), and in the final beating the brazilian K-1 fighter GLAUBE FEITOSA just in a few seconds by Knock Out. And that was a really impressive Knock Out, and that's the reason why I decided to put the video of the fight online added to this post here, so you'll find it at the end of this posting. You can thank me for that later. At all up to this very present day he fought about 40 fights in K-1, he won 34 of them (17 times via Knock Out), and he lost just five times (two times via Knock Out), and two loss' were at least very controversial (I'll write aout them later during this very post here, calm down), and one fight turned out to be a standoff. And every single fight of him was rated, there was not a single fight that had been null and void. SEMMY SCHILT trains in and fights for the "Golden Glory Gym".

In 2005 he remained unbeaten, and also in 2006 he only lost to fights and this also in a (At least) (very) controversial way. He lost to the legendary 'dutch lumberjack' PETER AERTS in Auckland, New Zealand due to a controversial 'point-decision', and also he lost in the republic of Korea to the local hero HONG-MAN CHOI also due to a (very, very) controversial 'point-decision'. This fight was a rarity, HONG-MAN CHOI is already quite a little bit bigger than SEMMY SCHILT and it was really the first time that two fighters of this size had been fighting against each other, no matter which competitive sports you now may think of. (And that includes the WBA World Championship Fight in Boxing between NICOLAI VALUEV and JAMEEL MC CLINE.) Also in 2006 SEMMY SCHILT won the K-1 World Grand Prix, defeating the great JEROME LE BANNER in the first round of this tournament, and in the second round he won against the legendary four times K-1 World Champion ERNESTO HOOST, to defeat in the final fight then finally PETER AERTS, taking revenge for his controversially lost fight against him earlier this year of 2006. So, after he lost to him earlier in this very year of 2006, he had taken this victory back. He made it's triumph complete respectively reached this triumph by winning all this fights through getting the points for victory in each single fight.

In 2007 K-1 introduced a new weight class with a new championship title to the scene, the super heavyweight title that is for fighters that weigh more than 100 kilogram. SEMMY SCHILT won the title in a brutal fight against RAY SEFO, by knocking him down and out, and this was a premiere 'cause RAY SEFO had never been knocked out in K-1 before. RAY SEFO knocked SEMMY SCHILT down in the first round, but he failed to knock him out. In the secondround then it took SEMMY SCHILT exactly 20 seconds to knock RAY SEFO not just down, but out. At the 23. of June of the year of 2007 he SEMMY SCHILT had defended his title the first time against the great MIGHTY MO, the so called 'HARDEST PUNCHER' in K-1 (and that for some very good and justified reasons, trust me) that had defeated HONG-MAN CHOI by Knock Out earlier this year. In 20o7 he also won the K-1 World Grand Prix for the third time, defeating GLAUBE FEITOSA in the first round and- I hate to write it- again JEROME LE BANNER, but he was badly injured in this fight and the referee abandoned the fight due to this injury by the decision of a so called Technical Knock Out in the second round, and in the final he defated once again PETER AERTS, and he was also injured during this fight. 2008 the was a 'black year' for SEMMY "HIGHTOWER" SCHILT after he lost to PETER AERTS on the 28. of September of 2008 in the qualification tournament for the K-1 WorldGrand Prix Tournament. So the currently reigning champion was not competing in the grand final tournament. It was finally REMY BONJASKY who managed to win the K-1 World Grand Prix of 2008 after a scandal in the tournament final fight against the spitfire BADR "GOLDEN BOY" HADI. BADR HADI was beating and kicking the accidentially stumbled REMY BONJASKY, that was lying for a moment down on the ground. So BADR HADI was disqualified, and REMY BONJASKY won his third K-1 World Grand Prix Championship. This was very controversial and a true scandal, but don't think that REMY BONJASKY would not have been a 'real champ' in 2008, he defeated BADR HARI earlier this year and he also had knocked him down to the ground in the first round of this final fight. And BADR HARI again used to beat and kick a opponent that was down on the ground on the 29. May of 2010 when he assaulted HESDY GERGES in this way in the second round of his fight at the "It's Showtime Event" of K-1. But enough about REMY BONJASKY and BADR HARI, this one here is about SEMMY SCHILT. So, but in 2009 he returned stronger than before and he finally won the K-1 World Grand Prix Tournament for the fourth time again, remained unbeaten and becoming beside ERNESTO HOOST the only fighter to do this in the history of K-1 up to this present day. SEMMY SCHILT also holds two impresive winning streaks in K-1, the first reached from the 6. November of 2004 to the 31. December of 2005 when he won about ten K-1 fights, the second reached from the 30. September of 2006 to this 29. June of 2008 when used to succeed in about thirteen K-1 fights, and beside his martial arts career he also started moving into the movie businnes with playing a sidekick role in the blockbuster movie "THE TRANSPORTER III". Back to K-1, he's the currently (supreme) ruling force in the world of K-1 today, and if SEMMY SCHILT stays health (what we all do hope) then that won't change that much at all in the near future, because beside of his impressive size he also owns just the damn high technical skills as well as the sheer fighting spirits to do so, to remain that supreme!!!

Now you do get some video clips of fights of SEMMY SCHILT, so enjoy it!!!



SEMMY SCHILT vs. GLAUBE FEITOSA (2005) (Damn impressive!!! Great win!!!)


SEMMY SCHILT vs. HONG-MAN CHOI (2006)


SEMMY SCHILT vs. MONTANA SILVA

SEMMY SCHILT vs. JAN "THE GIANT" NORTJE

SEMMY SCHILT vs. PAUL SLOWINSKI (2007)