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Aleksandr Pitchkounov Александр Николаевич Пичкунов |
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| Born |
May 6, 1979 Perm, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Native name | Александр Николаевич Пичкунов |
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| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 103 kg (227 lb; 16.2 st) |
| Division | Super Heavyweight |
| Style | Kyokushin Karate |
| Fighting out of | Tokyo, Japan |
| Team | Ichigeki Plaza |
| Trainer |
Jayson Vemoa Fai Falamoe |
| Rank | Black belt in Kyokushin |
| Years active | 1999–2009 |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 17 |
| Wins | 12 |
| By knockout | 5 |
| Losses | 3 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| Draws | 2 |
Aleksandr N. Pitchkounov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Пичкунов; born May 6, 1979) is a former Russian super heavyweight kickboxer and kyokushin karateka competing in K-1. He was the runner up at the K-1 World GP 2007 in Hawaii and K-1 World GP 2008 in Taipei tournament.
Pitchkounov began training in Kyokushin kaikan at age of thirteen in 1993. He became a black belt in 1999 and started training kickboxing a year later after being interested by watching K-1-competitions. He was the 3rd place in the 7th World Open Karate Tournament in Japan at the age of 20. He knocked out a very famous fighter Nicholas Pettas by a high kick (jodan mawashi geri)