Tyrone Spong

Tyrone Spong is a Surinamese-Dutch former kickboxer, professional boxer and mixed martial artist, born on 3 September 1985 in Suriname. He moved to the Netherlands at five, grew up in the Bijlmermeer district of Amsterdam and began kickboxing at thirteen under Lucien Carbin. As a professional from 2003 he won European Muay Thai titles, the WFCA cruiserweight title in 2008, and became the inaugural It's Showtime 95MAX World champion that November. He later won the Glory 95 kilogram Slam and, as a boxer, held the WBC and WBO Latino heavyweight titles in 2018. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Tyrone Spong.