"Iron" Raul Cătinaş is a Romanian super heavyweight

Super heavyweight

In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms . Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division, despite its grandiose name, is merely the amateur equivalent of the professional heavyweight division...

 kickboxer fighting in the K-1

K-1

K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...

 and Local Kombat

Local Kombat

Local Kombat is a kickboxing and mixed martial arts promotion based in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded by Eduard Irimia in 2003 and held its first show in the same year...

 promotions.

Biography and career

Raul Cătinaş was born in Lugoj in western Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 on August 6, 1988. He started kickboxing

Kickboxing

Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....

 at the age of 16 in 2004.
Then he fought in 2007 for the first time in Local Kombat

Local Kombat

Local Kombat is a kickboxing and mixed martial arts promotion based in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded by Eduard Irimia in 2003 and held its first show in the same year...

 tournaments and made his K-1

K-1

K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...

 debut a year later on September 12, 2008 at K-1 Slovakia 2008 against Dzevad Poturak

Dževad Poturak

Dževad Poturak is a Bosnian super heavyweight kickboxer, fighting out of Jumruk Gym in Sarajevo. He is former WKA European champion and K-1 Fighting Network Prague 2007 tournament champion.-Career:...

.

Cătinaş became in 2010, the youngest fighter after Badr Hari

Badr Hari

Badr "The Golden Boy" Hari is a Moroccan-Dutch super heavyweight kickboxer, fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam. He is a former K-1 Heavyweight champion and K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 finalist. As of May 2011, Hari is ranked the #2 heavyweight in the world by LiverKick.com...

 qualified for the K-1 World Grand Prix - Final 16

K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Seoul Final 16

K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Seoul Final 16 was a martial arts event held by the K-1 on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul, Korea. It was the Final Elimination tournament for top sixteen fighters...

 from Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

 at the age of only 22.

Titles and achievements

• K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 in Łódź semi finalist
• K-1 Fighting Network Prague 2008 semi finalist

Kickboxing record

Kickboxing record
Legend:

See also

• List of male kickboxers
• List of K-1 events
• List of Local Kombat events
• List of SuperKombat events

External links

• Profile at K-1
  K-1
  K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...