Xu Yan (; born November 22, 1987) is a Chinese Sanda,

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who competes in the

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division. A multiple time provincial and national Sanshou titlist in his home country, Xu later made the switch to Oriental rules kickboxing and gained recognition fighting internationally in promotions such as Fight Code,

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and

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Career

Early career

Xu Yan began

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training at an early age and rose to prominence by winning provincial titles in his native

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three years consecutively; he won the Shandong Province Sanshou Championships at -65 kg/143 lb in 2003 and 2004 and at -70 kg/154 lb in 2005. Staying at -70 kg/154 lb, he then won the Chinese National Sanshou club Championships in 2005 and 2006, and affirmed himself as the country's top middleweight by winning a tournament held by Heroes of Legends in January 2007. Fighting for the first time internationally, Xu was part of a team of sanshou fighters that challenged

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at ''Shoot Boxing 2007 Mu-So 2nd'' in

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, on May 25, 2007. He lost to Kenichi Ogata via a

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to the body

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in the third round, the first loss of his professional career. In September 2007, he won the IFB International Sanda Tournament in

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, defeating

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stylist Akarn Sannaha by decision in the final. A month later on October 13, 2007, Xu beat Joey Pagliuso by

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, China, using his height and reach advantage to

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the American. Xu won a second Legend of Heroes tournament in December 2008 before losing a unanimous decision to Vuyisile Colossa in the same promotion in

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, China on January 18, 2009. Making the foray into Oriental rules kickboxing, he debuted in

on March 20, 2009, at '' K-1 Award & MAX Korea 2009'' in

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where he lost to Kim Se-Ki by

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after being dropped twice in the second round. On May 31, 2009, he competed in the four man middleweight tournament at ''The Challenger'' event held at

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. After beating

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by unanimous decision in the semi-finals, he lost to Heung Pak-Wing by first-round knockout in the final.

SportAccord and King's Cup tournament

Xu Yan then rebounded with a

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win over

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on August 30, 2009, before returning to K-1 to fight

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in a non-tournament bout at the '' K-1 World MAX 2009 World Championship Tournament Final'' in Tokyo on October 26, 2009. Although a heavy underdog, he scored an upset win by knocking Nagashima down with a left

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inside the opening thirty seconds of the fight before finishing him with the same technique soon after. He was then set to face Lim Chi-Bin at ''The Khan 2'' in Seoul on November 27, 2009, but Lim was replaced by Lee Su-Hwan. He lost to Lee by TKO in round two. After beginning the year with wins over Ben Barwise and Lewis Corris, Xu was given the toughest test of his career in the form of Buakaw Por. Pramuk in a

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promoted event at Henan Provincial Stadium in

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, China on June 19, 2010. Xu was outfought and lost on points. He also received a controversial count by the referee in round two after going down from a low blow. He fought and beat another Thai in his next outing,

ing

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at ''Legends of Heroes: Muaythai vs. Kung Fu'' at the

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on October 9, 2010. In his second appearance on US soil, Xu was scheduled to fight Raul Rodriguez at ''Wu Lin Feng: Battle of Las Vegas II'' on November 13, 2010, in Las Vegas but a change occurred as Rodriguez was replaced by

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. He lost via unanimous decision. Three weeks later, Xu Yan was drafted into the 2010 edition of the

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Muay Thai tournament as one of three replacement fighters. Going down in

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on December 5, 2010, Xu was eliminated at the quarter-finals when he lost to Alexander Vogel on points.

Fight Code tournaments

On March 12, 2011, Xu faced

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on the ''Oktagon 2011'' card in

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. Round one was close but Sudsakorn asserted his dominance early on with a

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and only got better in the second. Xu faded in round three and received a somewhat controversial

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before losing the decision. He put a halt to his three-fight losing streak five months later when he knocked out Adil Abbas at a Legends of Heroes event in

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, China before returning to Europe to compete for the Fight Code promotion and entered into the organization's 2011 Dragons Series -70 kg/154 lb tournament at the quarter-finals stage when he took the place of

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who withdrew due to scheduling conflicts. He lost to

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via split decision on October 15, 2011, in

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but it later emerged that the French sporting commission had not allowed Fight Code's complete rule set just hours before the event and so a rematch was set for

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on November 26, 2011. Three weeks before the rematch, Xu suffered a first-round KO loss to

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, China. Against Mabel, Xu Yan rallied back in round three but the Frenchman dominated the first two and took the unanimous judges' decision.

K-1 tournaments

He stopped another three-fight skid with a win over

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at ''Krush.16'' in Tokyo on February 17, 2012. Xu got off to a good start, landing against the defensively flawed Yamamoto and took over in the second by scoring three knockdowns and earning him the TKO victory. Xu Yan outpointed Quinton Arendse on a Legends of Heroes show in his native country on April 21, 2012 before making a return to K-1 after an almost three-year absence to compete in the K-1 World MAX 2012 World Championship Tournament. At the ''

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'' in

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on May 27, 2012, he fought

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in the tournament's opening stage. The fight got off to a rather lackluster start and had the crowd booing at one point in the first round before Xu fell victim to Kido's patented spinning backfist late in the third. After rebounding with a high kick knockout of a Japanese opponent in Legends of Heroes in

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, China two months later, Xu Yan was soundly beaten to a unanimous decision in the tournament reserve match at the '' K-1 World MAX 2012 World Championship Tournament Final'' in

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on December 15, 2012.

WMC and Hero Legends titles

Xu Yan scored a first-round knockout over Ton Kunchat at ''Combat Renaissance'' in Hong Kong on September 17, 2013. He defeated

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by unanimous decision, dropping him in rounds one and two, at ''Hero Legends'' in Jinan, China on December 3, 2014.

Hero Legends title reign

After winning the Hero Legends title, Yan fought with the organization five more times in non-title bouts. In May 2014, he fought

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to a draw. A year later, he knocked out Kraisorn Singmamor, and a month after this fight, he scored a TKO win over Yodpichai SorSaksri. In July 2015, he fought twice in the span of two weeks, he won a unanimous decision against Munguntsooj Nandin-Erdene and defeated Ryota Kojima by first round TKO. A month later, he stepped in on short notice to replace

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against

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, with Hero Legends making the fight a title bout. Petrosyan won the fight by knockout, after dropping Yan by a knee in the third round.

Championships and awards

Kickboxing

*The Challenger **The Challenger -70 kg/154 lb Tournament Runner-up *Hero Legends **Hero Legends World -70 kg/154 lb Championship (1 Time) **2012 Hero Legends -70 kg/154 lb Tournament Championship **2011 Hero Legends -70 kg/154 lb Tournament Championship **2010 Hero Legends -70 kg/154 lb Tournament Championship **2007 Hero Legends -70 kg/154 lb Tournament Championship *IFB International Sanda Tournament **IFB International Sanda Tournament Championship *Shandong Province Sanshou Championships **2003 Shandong Province Sanshou Championships -65 kg/143 lb Championship **2004 Shandong Province Sanshou Championships -65 kg/143 lb Championship **2005 Shandong Province Sanshou Championships -70 kg/154 lb Championship *

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**WMC World Super Welterweight (-70 kg/154 lb) Championship

Kickboxing record

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, , Legends of Heroes: Muaythai vs. King Fu , , Changsha, China , , TKO (knee) , , 1 , , , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2011-10-15 , , Loss , , align="left" ,

, , Fight Code Dragon Series 2011 Part 4, Quarter Finals , , Marseille, France , , Decision (split) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2011-08-13 , , Win , , align="left" , Adil Abbas , , Legends of Heroes , , Nanchang, China , , KO , , , , , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2011-03-12 , , Loss , , align="left" ,

, , Oktagon 2011 , , Milan, Italy , , Decision , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2010-12-05 , , Loss , , align="left" , Alexander Vogel , , King's Cup 2010, Quarter Finals , , Bangkok, Thailand , , Decision , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2010-11-13 , , Loss , , align="left" ,

, , Wu Lin Feng: Battle of Las Vegas II , , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA , , Decision (unanimous) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2010-10-09 , , Win , , align="left" ,

, , Legends of Heroes: Muaythai vs. Kung Fu , , Pahang, Malaysia , , Decision (unanimous) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2010-09-03 , , Loss , , align="left" , Stračanek Gregor , , World Combat Games 2010, SportAccord World Combat Games, Quarter Finals -71 kg , ,

, , Decision , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2010-06-19 , , Loss , , align="left" , Buakaw Por. Pramuk , , Wu Lin Feng , , Zhengzhou, China , , Decision , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2010-05-11 , , Win , , align="left" , Luis Bio , , WCK Muay Thai Show , , Sichuan, China , , Decision (unanimous) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2010-04-25 , , Win , , align="left" , Ben Barwise , , Wu Lin Feng , , Luoyang, China , , Extension round decision , , 4 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2009-11-27 , , Loss , , align="left" , Lee Su-Hwan , , The Khan 2 , , Seoul, South Korea , , TKO (left cross) , , 2 , , 2:10 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2009-10-26 , , Win , , align="left" ,

, , K-1 World MAX 2009 World Championship Tournament Final , , Yokohama, Japan , , KO (left hook) , , 1 , , 1:04 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2009-08-30 , , Win , , align="left" ,

, , WCK Muay Thai , , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA , , Decision (split) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2009-05-31 , , Loss , , align="left" , Heung Pak-Wing , , The Challenger, Final , ,

, , KO (right head kick) , , 1 , , 0:15 , - ! style="background:white" colspan="9" , , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2009-05-31 , , Win , , align="left" ,

, , The Challenger, Semi Finals , ,

, , Decision (unanimous) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2009-03-20 , , Loss , , align="left" , Kim Se-Ki , , K-1 Award & MAX Korea 2009 , , Seoul, South Korea , , TKO (punches) , , 2 , , 1:30 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2009-01-18 , , Loss , , align="left" , Vuyisile Colossa , , Legends of Heroes , ,

, , Decision (unanimous) , , 5 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2008-01-12 , , Loss , , align=left,

, , WCK: Full Rules Muaythai , , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA , , TKO (elbow injury) , , 1 , , 2:43 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2007-10-13 , , Win , , align="left" , Joey Pagliuso , , Legends of Heroes , ,

, , Decision (unanimous) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - bgcolor="#CCFFCC" , 2007-09-00 , , Win , , align="left" , Akarn Sannaha , , IFB International Sanda Tournament, Final , ,

, , Decision , , 3 , , 3:00 , - ! style="background:white" colspan="9" , , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2007-05-25 , , Loss , , align="left" , Kenichi Ogata , , Shoot Boxing 2007 Mu-So 2nd , ,

, , KO (left knee to the body) , , 3 , , 0:56 , - , - bgcolor="#FFBBBB" , 2007-01-27 , , Loss , , align=left, Zhao Zhao , , Legends of Heroes , ,

, , Decision (unanimous) , , 3 , , 3:00 , - , - , colspan=9 , ''Legend'':

References

External links

Official K-1 profile

Official Krush profile
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