Akira Corassani
| Akira Corassani | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hamid Khorassani August 27, 1982 Lund, Sweden |
| Residence | Malmö, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Ethnicity | Azerbaijanis |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight | 145 lb (66 kg; 10.4 st) |
| Division |
Featherweight (2012-2015) Lightweight (2008-2011) Welterweight (2007) Light heavyweight (2007) |
| Reach | 68.0 in (173 cm) |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | New York City, New York |
| Team | Redline Training Center Renzo Gracie Combat Team |
| Rank | Black on red belt in Tae Kwon Do Purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
| Years active | 2007–2015 |
| Mixed martial arts record | |
| Total | 19 |
| Wins | 12 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| By submission | 3 |
| By decision | 7 |
| By disqualification | 1 |
| Losses | 6 |
| By knockout | 6 |
| No contests | 1 |
| Amateur career | |
| Total | 3 |
| Wins | 3 |
| By decision | 3 |
| Other information | |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Hamid Khorassani (Persian: حمید خراسانی; born August 27, 1982), professionally known as Akira Corassani, is a Swedish mixed martial artist who most recently competed as a Featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Corassani has made a name for himself fighting mainly in Western Europe. He was a competitor on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller as a member of Team Bisping.
Corassani was born in Lund, southern Sweden. His parents moved to Sweden from Iran around 1976. He began martial arts when he was six years old, Shotokan Karate became his discipline for 1 year until he switched over to Tae Kwon Do. He was playing football in his hometown team as well as pursuing his black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Corassani graduated fast and was considered a natural talent early on. At the age of 14 he became a Tae Kwon Do black belt to shortly after quit and pursue his football journey. Football became his main focus in life as he played in the highest youth league in Sweden. At the age of 22 Corassani found his way back to martial arts and he began training MMA. Corassani comes from an academic family and has four sibling who are all doctors. Corassani is vegan. Corassani speaks seven different languages: Swedish, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi, Azeri and Turkish.
In 2005 Corassani started training at a local MMA gym in Gothenburg where he lived at the time. He decided to dedicate his life to martial arts and only four months later he competed in his first grappling tournament where he took a silver medal. Up until his professional debut Corassani had 30 grappling matches and 12 boxing fights. Corassani began fighting professionally in 2007, and traveling all across Europe to compete. In his professional debut fight he challenged the dutch heavyweight fighter Dion Staring. Corassani had travelled to Holland to corner his friend but heard about Straing's oponnent pulling out. Corassani stepped up on the scale as 76 kg as his opponent weighed 102 kg. The fight was titled as an open weight fight. He built a record of 9–3 (1 NC) beating good names before his UFC debut. He moved to New York in 2011 and was a part of Team Renzo Gracie. In US he joined their MMA team coahced by Ricardo Almeida with teammates such as Frankie Edgar, Edson Barboza, Eddie Alvarez, Corey Anderson and Marlon Moraes.
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