Peter Aerts

Peter Aerts, born in Eindhoven in the Netherlands on 25 October 1970, is a retired Dutch heavyweight kickboxer nicknamed The Dutch Lumberjack for his powerful high kicks, and is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers of all time. He began with taekwondo at fourteen, started kickboxing in 1984, and won his first world title in 1990 at nineteen with the International Kick Boxing Federation heavyweight championship, adding Dutch and World Muay Thai Association heavyweight titles before moving on to Japan. He fought in every K-1 World Grand Prix except the 2009 edition, debuting at the first in 1993, and won it three times, in 1994, 1995 and 1998. The 1998 tournament at the Tokyo Dome, where he stopped three opponents including Andy Hug in the final in under seven minutes, is regarded as the high point of his career, and he reached the final again in 2006, 2007 and 2010.