Yury Bessmertny
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Yuri Bessmertny Юрый Бяссмертны |
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| Born | Yuri Gorbachev August 27, 1987 Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Native name | Юрый Бяссмертны |
| Other names | The Prince |
| Nationality | Belarusian |
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) |
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Middleweight Super Middleweight |
| Style | Kickboxing, Muay Thai |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of | Minsk, Belarus |
| Team | Chinuk Gym |
| Trainer | Andrei Grydin |
| Years active | 2004-present |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 57 |
| Wins | 39 |
| By knockout | 19 |
| Losses | 17 |
| Draws | 1 |
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Yuri Gorbachev (Belarusian: Юрый Гарбачоў, born August 27, 1987), better known as Yuri Bessmertny (Belarusian: Юрый Бяссмертны), is a Belarusian Muay Thai kickboxer who competes in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions. After taking up Muay Thai at thirteen years old, he began his career in 2004 and rose to prominence by becoming a five-time national champion at both amateur and professional levels. Having established himself domestically, he then went on to win numerous European, intercontinental and world titles while fighting mostly in the former Soviet Union. In 2011, he won the Fight Code Dragon Series tournament featuring sixteen top 72.5 kg/160 lb fighters from around the world to break into the middleweight elite.
Although born as Yuri Gorbachev, he fights under the surname Bessmertny which means "immortal" in Belarusian. He began practicing Muay Thai at the age of thirteen at the encouragement of his mother and considers legendary boxer Roy Jones, Jr. an idol of his.
After amassing around seventy bouts in amateur competition, Bessmertny turned professional and soon became a five-time national champion, three times under Oriental rules and twice in Muay Thai. Having outgrown the domestic scene, he then started fighting around the former Soviet Union and became a world champion for the first time in 2006 when he won the S-1 title in Poland.
He debuted in the K-1 promotion on March 17, 2007, competing in the K-1 East Europe MAX 2007 eight-man tournament in Vilnius, Lithuania. After beating local fighter Romualdas Klimavičius on points in the quarter-finals, he was eliminated in the semis when he lost to Moldova's Andrey Vakarash after an extension round. Various other belts would then follow as Bessmertny took the WAKO European title and the WMF world title in 2007, the WAKO world title in 2008, the WAKO World Cup in 2009, the World Kickboxing Federation (WKF) intercontinental title in 2010 and the World Fights of Kick Boxing (WFKB) world title in 2011.
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