October 6, 2012, Brussels, Belgium, Glory 2, it was last test before Glory Heavyweight Grand Slam, and another great victory.
#Igor pro 7 division series#
Glory World Series have announced a Glory grand Slam heavyweight 16 man, one-night, single-elimination tournament event in Tokyo, Japan in December, and Igor is expected to be one of 16 participants. In an interview Jurković said that he was sorry he could not fight for the belt as he believed that he could take it easily, and that he was never into Muay Thai but he felt the belt would have suited him. He was scheduled to fight for the championship belt of Cristian Bosch under WBC Muaythai organisation, but he gave up because he was also scheduled to fight in the Glory summer tournament that was planned to happen in Ukraine but cancelled. In an interview after the fight he said that he was not ready for two tough fights in that short time. Later in the fight Jurković was at least equal fighter, but knockdown was enough for Samedov to take deserved victory. He was expected to fight Ali Cenik on United Glory 15, but it was later changed and he faced Zabit Samedov, losing the fight via unanimous decision after suffering first round knockdown. On 10 March 2012 he made another big step defeating Freddy Kemayo on "Cro Cop Final Fight", he won in a close fight after extra round. 2011, however the event was canceled as K-1 was suffering from financial problems. It was later announced that Jurković is scheduled to participate on K-1 World Grand Prix 2011 in Nanjing Final 16 on October 29. He "sneaked" there due to a Win against Zhuravlev. After the fight Head Kick Legend magazine ranked Jurkovic as 20.
He knocked down Pavel Zhuravlev in the first round, in the second round he dropped Pavel and broke his nose, causing ringside doctor to stop the fight. In 2011 he signed for Golden Glory, and successfully passed his first test on United Glory 14 event. After that he had a break in his career because of injury sustained while falling off the motorcycle, but successfully returned to kickboxing and won few international tournaments. Tournament was promoted by the K-1 organisation, it was only a prize tournament, not a K-1 qualifying tournament. In semi finals he defeated Frédéric Sinistra and won tournament defeating Magomed Magomedov in the final. He had a walkthrough in quarter finals because Frédérique Bellonie, last year's champion, suffered injury before tournament. He was K-1 Rules "Le Grand Tournoi" 2006 champion. amateur world champion under Muay Thai rules, also winning bronze and silver medals on other W.A.K.O. Igor was six time Croatian kickboxing champion, also W.A.K.O. He started kickboxing after watching Mirko Filipović knocking out Mike Bernardo, and as Bernardo was falling down, a new kickboxer, decisive to continue Croatian kickbox glory was rising. Igor "The Istrian Warrior" Jurković was born in the city of Poreč, Croatia.
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