Igor Jurković
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| Born | Igor Jurković July 15, 1985 Poreč, Croatia |
| Other names | The Istrian Warrior |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 93.8 kg (207 lb; 14 st 11 lb) |
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Light heavyweight Heavyweight |
| Reach | 74.0 in (188 cm) |
| Style | Kickboxing, Muay Thai |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Fighting out of |
Poreč, Croatia Breda, Netherlands |
| Team | King Porec Golden Glory |
| Trainer | Leo Komšić Cor Hemmers |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 61 |
| Wins | 51 |
| By knockout | 31 |
| Losses | 10 |
| By knockout | 2 |
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Igor Jurković (born 15 July 1985) is a Croatian heavyweight kickboxer fighting out of Poreč, Croatia. He was 6 times Croatian national champion 2004, 2005, 2006 in Thai boxing, and kickboxing champion 2005 in full contact, 2005 and 2006 in low kick rules, and also was sparring partner of Mirko Cro Cop. He has fought in K-1 and he is under contract with Glory promotion.
As of 2 November 2015, he is ranked the #8 light heavyweight in the world by GLORY.
Igor "The Istrian Warrior" Jurković was born in the city of Poreč, Croatia. He started kickboxing after watching Mirko Filipović knocking out Mike Bernardo, and as Bernardo was falling down, a new kickboxer, decisive to continue Croatian kickbox glory was rising. Igor was six time Croatian kickboxing champion, also W.A.K.O. amateur world champion under Muay Thai rules, also winning bronze and silver medals on other W.A.K.O. championships.
"Le Grand Tournoi"
He was K-1 Rules "Le Grand Tournoi" 2006 champion. He had a walkthrough in quarter finals because Frédérique Bellonie, last year's champion, suffered injury before tournament. In semi finals he defeated Frédéric Sinistra and won tournament defeating Magomed Magomedov in the final. Tournament was promoted by the K-1 organisation, it was only a prize tournament, not a K-1 qualifying tournament. After that he had a break in his career because of injury sustained while falling off the motorcycle, but successfully returned to kickboxing and won few international tournaments.
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