Tosca Petridis (born Tasis Petridis, 30 October 1966) is an Australian former

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and

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. He was born in

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, however is of

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ethnicity. He lives in

Kickboxing

Tosca is a former 7 time World Kickboxing champion. In 1992, Tosca won his first World Kickboxing Title, winning the WKA/ISKA World Light Heavyweight Championship against American Mike Cole in Melbourne. In 1993, Petridis beat the legendary

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, by points decision in a 12-round fight in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for Thériault's world Kickboxing title, under American Kickboxing rules. Tosca in 1993, also competed in the

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tournament, which was a Light Heavyweight tournament hosted by

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. In this tournament, he beat 1991 World Karate Cup champion Toshiyuki Atokawa in the quarter-finals by unanimous points decision, before losing on a very close points decision in the semi-final to Muay Thai legend,

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. In 1995, Tosca fought Dutch legend,

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under Muay Thai rules, and after Tosca seemingly being in front on points against Kaman, the fight was stopped towards the end, after an accidental headbutt, which had the fight ruled a no contest.

Boxing

Tosca also fought a few times in boxing, later in his career, where he became the Australian Cruiserweight boxing champion. In his second boxing bout, he beat former 3 time world Boxing champion

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. His overall boxing record was 9 wins, 5 losses, and 1 draw.

Mixed martial arts

Tosca also competed in one

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match in 2004, where he defeated Judo practitioner, Peter Jones by TKO.MMA profile

Titles

*2004 Australia Cruiserweight Title in

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, Australia *1999 PABA Cruiserweight Title in

, Australia *1999 Australia Cruiserweight Title in

, Australia *1993 P.K.C. Full Contact Super Middleweight World title.

Professional boxing record

Kickboxing record (incomplete)

Mixed Martial Arts record

References

External links

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