Andrei Kulebin
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Andrei Kulebin at THAI FIGHT 2012 final
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| Born |
May 14, 1984 Neustrelitz, Germany |
| Other names | Bullet |
| Nationality | Belarus |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st) |
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Welterweight Lightweight Featherweight Bantamweight Flyweight |
| Style | Muay Thai |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Minsk, Belarus |
| Team | Gym "Kick Fighter" |
| Trainer | Evgeni Dobrotvorski |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 92 |
| Wins | 70 |
| Losses | 22 |
| By knockout | 7 |
| Amateur career | |
| Total | 140 |
| Wins | 130 |
| Losses | 10 |
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Andrei "Bullet" Kulebin (born 14 May 1984 in Neustrelitz, Germany) is a Belarusian Muay Thai welterweight kickboxer fighting out of Minsk, Belarus for Gym "Kick Fighter". He is an 18 time Muay Thai and kickboxing world champion who has won international titles both at amateur and professional level from 51 kg to 67 kg and is considered one of the top pound for pound Muay Thai fighters outside of Thailand. In 2007 he was the first Muay Thai fighter in Belarus to be awarded the "Honored Master of Sport" by the countries president.
Kulebin began his kickboxing education at the age of eight in Minsk where he studied Taekwondo, only to switch to Muay Thai four years later, aged twelve, when he joined his (still) current club Gym "Kick Fighter", run by trainer Evgeni Dobrotvorski. At his new gym he had access to some of the best facilities in Belarus, training with future world champions such as Dmitry Shakuta, Andrei Kotsur, Aliaksei Pekarchyk and Vasily Shish. As a teenager he competed in a number of amateur competitions in Belarus, winning the junior national title at 38 kg as well as making his pro debut in 1999. In 2001 he came third at the I.A.M.T.F. Amateur Muay Thai World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand and went even better later that year winning gold in the 51 kg category at the W.A.K.O. World Championships in 2001. Success in the amateur circuit transferred across to the professional game in 2002 where Kulebin defeated compatriot Alexei Talantov to win the World Kickboxing Network (W.K.N.) European title, followed swiftly by the organizations intercontinental title, also in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005 Kulebin won more titles – winning gold medals at the I.A.M.T.F. (world & European), W.A.K.O. and W.M.F. world championships, as well as claiming two W.K.N. professional world titles at super bantamweight and featherweight respectively. He also suffered his first ever professional defeat losing to Rudolf Durica in an unsuccessful attempt for Durica's W.P.M.F. title at the King's Birthday event in Bangkok, Thailand at the end of 2005. Bt 2006, at the age of 21, Kulebin had won seven world titles.
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