Artem Levin

Artem Valeryevich Levin, nicknamed The Lion and born on 8 December 1986, is a Russian middleweight Muay Thai kickboxer who fights out of Prokopyevsk. He was captain of the Russian national Muaythai team and from 2012 chairman of the athletes commission of the IFMA, and as an amateur he won IFMA world Muaythai titles in 2006, 2007 and 2012 and the SportAccord World Combat Games in 2010 and 2013. As a professional he held the Glory Middleweight Championship, won the Glory Last Man Standing middleweight tournament in 2014, held the It's Showtime 77 MAX world title and the WBC Muaythai light heavyweight title, and won the ACB KB middleweight title in 2018. Combat Press ranked him as high as number one at middleweight.