Thursday, December 6, 2012

John Wayne Parr

   John Wayne Parr, or JWP, is an Australian middle weight kickboxing champion. He is an 8 time World Champion and was the runner up in The Contender Asia. The Contender Asia is known as The Contender: Kickboxer in the United Kingdom and as The Contender: Muay Thai in the United States. John Wayne Parr is also regarded of the 15th best foreign (not of Thai descendant) Muay Thai fighters of all time.

  Parr was 16 when he started his professional career, and was 17 when he won an Australian title. Parr's trainer, Blair Moore, helped promote Parr at Jupiter's Casino for three of his fights before contending for the South Pacific title against Scott Lovelock. Parr won that fight in the 5th round with a KO when he was 19. Over the next few years Parr won many regional titles from the WKA (World Kickboxing Association).

   After many years of success in his career, Parr decided to have a retirement fight on June 24 2012 against K-1 veteran Jordan Tai. 2 minutes into the 4th round with a strong uppercut. Parr retired after this fight  with a 4 fight winning streak in which 3 of them were knock, and his title was WKBF K-1 World Middleweight Champion. Here is a video of the fight:





4 comments:

  1. John Wayne Parr must be really good if he is an eight time world champion. You have to be really talented to be that good.

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  2. Yaaaa i love him he is so boss. He can take down any body

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  3. That Wayne Parr guy's pretty good.

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  4. Emma- John Wayne Parr seems like an excellent kick boxer. He is definetly someone I wouldn't want to mess around with though! Nice job.

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