Artur Kyshenko

Artur Kyshenko is a Ukrainian middleweight kickboxer, born on 14 November 1986 and trained in his home town of Odesa. He started boxing at eleven and kickboxing a year later, took bronze at the 2003 IMFA Amateur Muaythai World Championships at sixteen, and won two Ukrainian national titles in 2005 and 2006. He became known internationally from 2006 in K-1 MAX, was a finalist at the K-1 World MAX 2008 and won the 2015 Kunlun Fight 80 kilogram tournament. Combat Press ranked him the number one welterweight in the world from September 2017 until February 2020, when he moved into boxing, and in 2019 the French anti-doping agency suspended him for four years after a positive test. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Artur Kyshenko.