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Gabriel Varga (born May 16, 1985) is a Canadian
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who competed in the
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division of
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. He is a former Bellator KB Featherweight champion, former two time Glory Featherweight champion, and former WKN lightweight champion. A martial artist since his childhood, Varga started out in
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and made the switch to kickboxing at seventeen. After becoming a Canadian, North American and two-time world champion during his amateur career, he turned professional in 2009 and won two more world championships in the pro ranks inside the space of seven months during 2011. Varga has since competed in the
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, Glory, and
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promotions. In 2018, he started to upload videos to his YouTube channel.


Early life

Varga was born in Toronto, Ontario and spent part of his childhood in Australia and New Zealand before settling in
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, in 1999. He was introduced to martial arts at an early age by his father, Keith, a
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and
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ka. Also a classically trained pianist, Varga formally began training in
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at the age of eight and eventually earned the rank of fourth degree black belt. He made the switch to kickboxing and
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, along with his brothers Aaron and Jacob, at seventeen years old.


Kickboxing career


Amateur career

Varga began competing as an amateur in 2006 at the age of twenty and, after amassing an 8–0 record by 2008, spent three months training in Thailand at Eminent Air,
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, Por Pramuk and Sinbi Muay Thai. Upon his return to Canada, he was given the chance to fight for his first title and he
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ed Carlos Garcia to take the
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Amateur North American Light Welterweight (-64.5 kg/142.2 lb) Oriental Championship. He then stopped Chuck Mady with body shots in the first round for the ISKA Amateur Canadian Super Lightweight (-62.3 kg/137.2 lb) Oriental title on August 15, 2008. Now a national and continental belt holder, Varga faced Joe Concha in an ISKA super lightweight amateur world title match in his hometown of Victoria on January 24, 2009. He scored a knockdown in the fifth and final round and won by decision. He made the first defence of this title against Emil Salva on April 4, 2009, in
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. After being dropped with a right overhand late in round one, Varga was able to rally back to win by a third round
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that sent the Romanian through the ropes at the end of round three. On June 12, 2009, he made his final title defence with a wide points victory over Matt Embree in
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. Following this, Varga moved back up in weight to challenge for the ISKA amateur light welterweight world title against Devon Henry in Victoria on July 20, 2009. He won by
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after a back-and-forth fight. In his final bout as an amateur, he took a
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over Nathan Smandych on October 3, 2009, in Victoria to defend his ISKA light welterweight strap and bring his record to 15–0.


Professional career


WKN and WKF titles

Having fought mostly under Oriental rules during his amateur career, Varga ventured into the
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ruleset after turning professional and spent the early part of his career fighting abroad. In his pro debut on December 12, 2009, he travelled to
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, United States and defeated local fighter Omar Ahmed by unanimous decision. He followed this up with another unanimous decision win over Justin Greskiewicz on February 19, 2010 before being invited to compete in an eight-man tournament held in New York on July 17, 2010. Despite entering as the tournament favourite, he was eliminated at the quarter-final stage when he lost to Terrence Hill via a controversial unanimous decision. The Varga camp attempted to have the result overturned and filed a complaint with the WKA a week later. Their bid was rejected, however, as it had been submitted too late. A rematch with Greskiewicz was set for December 3, 2010, at ''The Warriors Cup XIII'' in
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, China where he won by unanimous decision under
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rules. With this, he earned himself a shot at the World Kickboxing Network (WKN) World Lightweight (-64.4 kg/142 lb) Oriental Championship. Fighting in Victoria for the first time as a professional on March 12, 2011, he heavily utilized
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and
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over five rounds to take the unanimous decision and come away with the belt. His rematch with Justin Greskiwicz was rescheduled for ''Battle at Bally's 2'' in
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, US on August 11, 2011, but fell through again. Instead he took a second consecutive title match in which Varga
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Roy Tan in the third round to take the World Kickboxing Federation (WKF) World Light Welterweight (-64.5 kg/142 lb) K-1 belt in
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, on September 24, 2011.


Glory Kickboxing

After a year out of the ring, he signed with
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and made his promotional debut at the '' K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Los Angeles'' in California on September 8, 2012, against
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. Varga dropped the three-time
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champion with a spinning backfist in the opening round but it was ruled a slip by the referee. Nonetheless, he kept a high tempo and fought aggressively en route to winning by unanimous decision. He was recruited into Glory's 65 kg/143 lb class in 2013 and was amongst the division's eight elite fighters at the '' Glory 8: Tokyo - 2013 65kg Slam'' tournament in Tokyo, Japan on May 3, 2013. He dominated
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en route to a unanimous decision win in the quarter-finals, but lost to the eventual champion
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by the same margin in the semis. Varga was set to face
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at '' Glory 11: Chicago - Heavyweight World Championship Tournament'' in
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, US on October 12, 2013. However, Oblonsky withdrew due to injury and was replaced by Jose Palacios. Varga defeated Palacios via unanimous decision. He was then set to make a defence of his WKN title for the first time against Jessy Petit-Jean in Belgium on November 9, 2013, but the bout was cancelled for undisclosed reasons. Varga won the 2014 Glory Featherweight Contendership Tournament at '' Glory 17: Los Angeles'' in
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, US on June 21, 2014, defeating Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai in the semi-finals and
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in the final, both via unanimous decision. On April 3, 2015, Varga defeated #1 ranked
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to become the inaugural GLORY Featherweight World Champion. The title fight took place on Glory 20 in Dubai. The decision win was unanimous with the 3 judges scoring 50–46, 48–47, and 49–46. He was scheduled to make his first title defense against
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at Glory 25: Milan. Adamchuk won the fight by unanimous decision, handing Varga his first loss in over two years. Two months later, Varga fought Liu Wei at the Hero Legends event in Hainan, China, for the Hero Legends Featherweight title. Varga won the fight by unanimous decision. He then challenged for the Glory featherweight title, in a rematch with
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. Varga won the fight by majority decision. He was scheduled to defend his title three months later, at Glory 34: Denver, against
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. Van Roosmalen won the fight by fourth-round TKO.


Bellator Kickboxing

Varga subsequently left Glory, and signed with
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. He made his promotional debut at Bellator Kickboxing 6: Budapest against Gabor Gorbics, losing the fight by split decision. Varga would rebound from this loss with a decision win against Lu Yichen at Hero Legends and a second-round TKO of Roberto Gheorghita at Bellator Kickboxing 8: Florence. Two months later, Varga fought
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, losing by unanimous decision. On July 14, 2018, in Rome, Italy Varga won his 6th professional world title. He defeated Kevin Ross by 1st-round TKO to win the Bellator Kickboxing Featherweight World Title. He defended his title against Shan Cangelosi at Bellator Kickboxing 11. He defeated Cangelosi by knockout in the first round. Varga defended his title for the second time against Cristian Faustino at Bellator Kickboxing 12, winning by unanimous decision. On March 19, 2021, Varga was released by Bellator as he had fulfilled his contract and Bellator would no longer be featuring Kickboxing events. Varga still held the Bellator World Kickboxing title.


Karate Combat

On December 22, 2021, it was announced that Varga had signed an exclusive contract with
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and will debut in the Lightweight division in the 2022 season.


Mixed martial arts career

In 2019, Varga made the transition to mixed martial arts competition for Bellator. He made his debut against Jamese Taylor at Bellator 224 on July 12, 2019. He won the fight via TKO in the second round. In his second fight, Varga faced Teejay Britton on February 21, 2020, at Bellator 239. He lost the bout via split decision.


Championships and awards


Kickboxing

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** Bellator Kickboxing Featherweight (-65 kg/143.3 lb) Champion *Hero Legends **Hero Legends 2016 Featherweight (-65 kg/143.3 lb) Champion * Glory ** Glory Featherweight Champion (two times; first) **2015, 2016 Glory Featherweight (-65 kg/143.3 lb) Champion ** 2014 Glory Featherweight (-65 kg/143.3 lb) Contender Tournament Winner *
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**ISKA Amateur Canadian Super Lightweight (-62.3 kg/137.2 lb) Oriental Championship **ISKA Amateur North American Light Welterweight (-64.5 kg/142.2 lb) Oriental Championship **ISKA Amateur World Super Lightweight (-62.3 kg/137.2 lb) Oriental Championship **ISKA Amateur World Light Welterweight (-64.5 kg/142.2 lb) Oriental Championship *
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**WKA Amateur British Columbia Light Welterweight (-64 kg/141.1 lb) Championship *World Kickboxing Federation **WKF World Light Welterweight (-64.5 kg/142 lb) K-1 Championship *World Kickboxing Network **WKN World Lightweight (-64.4 kg/142 lb) Oriental Championship


Karate Combat record

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Amateur kickboxing record

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Mixed martial arts record

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See also

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List of male kickboxers This is a list of notable male professional kickboxing, kickboxers. A * Parviz Abdullayev * Donegi Abena * Lukas Achterberg * Thomas Adamandopoulos * Serhiy Adamchuk * Romie Adanza * Benjamin Adegbuyi * Israel Adesanya * Peter Aerts * Ryo Aitak ...


References


External links


Official site
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