Ray Sefo

Ray Sefo, born on 15 February 1971, is a New Zealand fight promoter and retired kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist. He trained in boxing as a youth, then in Muay Thai under the Thai fighting legend Kiosot, and went on to train at the Balmoral Lee Gar gym. He was the runner-up at the K-1 World Grand Prix in 2000, a six-time Muay Thai world champion and an eight-time participant in the K-1 World Grand Prix Finals, and he won the WKA world super heavyweight title in 1997. He knocked out K-1 star Jerome Le Banner in the first round of their fight and defeated world champions including Peter Aerts and Mark Hunt. After a short mixed martial arts career, including Strikeforce in 2009 and 2011, he retired in 2018 and became president of the Professional Fighters League.