Davit Kiria
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Davit Kiria დავით ქირია |
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| Born |
February 9, 1988 Zugdidi, Georgia |
| Native name | დავით ქირია |
| Nationality | Georgian |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 70.0 kg (154.3 lb; 11.02 st) |
| Division |
Lightweight lightweight |
| Reach | 70.0 in (178 cm) |
| Style | Ashihara Karate, Kickboxing |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Georgia |
| Trainer | Sjef Weber, Nieky Holzken Bachuki Partsvania |
| Rank | black belt in Ashihara Karate |
| Years active | 2006-present |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 38 |
| Wins | 26 |
| By knockout | 13 |
| Losses | 12 |
| Draws | 0 |
| Other information | |
| Website | www.davitkiria.com |
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Davit Kiria (Georgian: დავით ქირია) (born February 9, 1988), also spelled as David Kyria, is a Georgian kickboxer who competes in the middleweight division. An Ashihara karate stylist, Kiria is known for mixing crisp boxing with unorthodox kicking techniques. He won the 2009 Kyokushinkai Karate Kamakura European Championship and also built up experience on the Dutch kickboxing scene before joining the Glory promotion in 2011 where he has faced some of the top fighters in his weight class and won the Glory Lightweight Championship in Zagreb (Glory 14), on March 8, 2014.
As of November 2016, he is ranked the #10 lightweight in the world by Combat Press.
Born in Zugdidi, Georgia, and started learning Ashihara karate at age of nine in the Ashihara International Karate Organization (AIKO), Kiria later relocated to the Netherlands to train under AIKO founder Dave Jonkers at the Golden Glory gym in Zuidlaren, where he is a training partner of legendary heavyweight Sem Schilt. He began kickboxing at fifteen years old after a career in full contact karate in which he won the 2009 Kyokushinkai Karate Kamakura European Championship of the International Budo Kai organization.
In 2008, he reached the final of the Ring Masters Olympia 2008 Welterweight Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey but lost to the great Somrak Kamsing by decision after three rounds in what was the first defeat of his career. Following this, Kiria moved up to middleweight and continued to gain experience by fighting his way through the Dutch kickboxing scene. On April 17, 2010, he competed in the Superfighters 8 Man Tournament in Frankfurt, Germany. Despite losing to Marco Piqué by an extension round decision in the quarter-finals, he was still given a slot in the semis by replacing Shemsi Beqiri who coundn't continue due to a broken nose. He was then eliminated from the competition by losing a decision to Chris van Venpoep.
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