Chris Ngimbi
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| Born |
April 18, 1984 Kinshasa, Zaire |
| Other names | The African Warrior |
| Nationality |
 Dutch Congolese
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st) |
| Division |
Super Welterweight Middleweight |
| Style | Karate, Kickboxing, Muay Thai |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| Team | Team Ngimbi/ Fidan gym Siam Gym Black Label Calmaro Gym Duran Gym |
| Trainer | Yucel Fidan |
| Years active | 14 (2002 -present) |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 68 |
| Wins | 45 |
| By knockout | 19 |
| Losses | 23 |
| By knockout | 4 |
| Draws | 0 |
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Chris "The African Warrior" Ngimbi (born 18 April 1984 in Kinshasa) is a Congolese-Dutch Muay Thai kickboxer fighting out of the Siam Gym in Valkenswaard, Netherlands for Black Label. He is the two times It's Showtime 70MAX world champion fighting primarily within the It's Showtime and the K-1 Global Holding organizations.
Ngimbi was born in Kinshasa the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was born with a weak heart which doctors felt would make it hard for him to survive his first year. He spent his childhood in the African country but his family was forced to leave when he was 11 years old due to the civil war and the fact that his father had served in the political party of the recently ousted president Mobutu Sese Seko. Ngimbi relocated to the Netherlands and was a keen footballer in his teenage years and tipped to do well but decided to focus on kickboxing after making his amateur debut at 18 in Eindhoven representing the Duran Gym. He would later switch to the Calmaro gym in Helmond after his second B-Klass match with a fighting record of 12 wins and 1 loss. -
After fighting on the local scene for several years, Ngimbi was invited as a member of a Dutch team that would participate in a W.K.A. event in New York City. Due to an impressive knockout of his opponent he would be invited back to the states the following year to contest against Atlanta based Thai Khunpon Dechkampu for the W.K.A. intercontinental title, in what would be the first of a number of title fights on American soil. Ngimbi was successful on his return visit to the United States, winning the belt via KO and as winner of the intercontinental belt Ngimbi would get a shot at the W.K.A. world title in 2007, losing to Shane Campbell in their first match in Richmond, only to win the rematch six months later to claim his first world title.
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