Martin Holm
| Martin Holm | |
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| Born |
November 27, 1976 , Sweden |
| Died | June 24, 2009 (aged 32) |
| Nationality |
 Swedish
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| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 103.0 kg (227.1 lb; 16.22 st) |
| Division | Super Heavyweight |
| Style | Muay Thai |
| Team | Slageskeppet from 1990 - 1999, Vallentuna Boxing Camp from 1999 |
| Years active | 1994–2004 |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 69 |
| Wins | 60 |
| By knockout | 43 |
| Losses | 9 |
| By knockout | 0 |
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Martin Holm (November 27, 1976 – June 24, 2009) was a Swedish Muay Thai kickboxer and former WMC Muaythai World Champion. In K-1 he fought against some of the biggest stars at the time, like Ernesto Hoost, Ray Sefo, Michael McDonald and Glaube Feitosa.
When Martin Holm was seven years old, he started swimming in the local swimming school. A few years later he became interested in Aikido and practiced it for four years. Soon after he became interested in Shotokan Karate. When he was 14 he entered one of the best Muay Thai gyms in [[Stockholm] at that time], "Slagskeppet Muay Thai," where he met Jörgen Kruth and immediately was taken by the sport.
Martin was 18 years old and vacationing in Thailand with his trainer Po Lindvall and Jörgen Kruth when he had his first fight. He was not prepared for the fight but his opponent was an experienced local Muay Thai fighter. Holm attacked hard, fired a lot of shots and won the fight by a knockout with knee strikes at the 30 second mark in the first round. In 1998 or 1999 on the advice of his first trainer Po Lindvall Martin decided to follow his training friend Jorgen Kruth to Vallentuna Boxing Camp www.vbc.se, in an attempt to get to the next level as Lindvall was leaving his trainer carrier and VBC was the most excelletnt promotors of fighters at that time. From Vallentuna he had some professional fights and later entered K-1 two years after Kruth.
Holm fought over 30 times for Slagskeppet and his first trainer Po Lindvall and won 4 European and 3 World titles before earning a WMC World Title match in 1999 in Thailand.
In 2002, he made his K-1 debut at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2002 in Nagoya. He knocked out Namibian Jokki Oberholtzer at 1'38" in the first round. His next fight was against Brazilian karate practitioner Glaube Feitosa. Holm won again by a first round knock out.
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