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Tosca Petridis (born Tasis Petridis on 30 October 1966) is a Greek-Australian former Kickboxer and Boxer. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, however is of Greek ethnicity. He lives in Melbourne.

Kickboxing

Tosca is a former 7 world Kickboxing champion.

In 1993, Petridis beat the legendary Full Contact Karate world champion Jean-Yves Thériault, by points decision in a 12 round fight in Montreal, Canada, for Thériault's Full Contact world title.

Tosca in 1993, also competed in the K-2 Grand Prix '93 tournament, which was a Light Heavyweight tournament hosted by K-1. In this tournament, he beat 1991 World Karate Cup champion Toshiyuki Atokawa in the quarter finals by unanimous points decision, before losing on a very close points decision in the semi-final to Muay Thai legend, Changpuek Kiatsongrit. [1] [2]


Boxing

Tosca also fought a few times in boxing, later in his career, where he became the Australian Cruiserweight boxing champion. In his second boxing bout, he beat former 3 time world boxing champion Iran Barkley.[3] His overall boxing record was 9 wins, 5 losses, and 1 draw.[4]
MMA

Tosca also competed in one MMA match in 2004, where he defeated Judo practitioner, Peter Jones by TKO.[5]
References

^ Tosca Petridis vs Toshiyuki Atokawa
^ Tosca Petridis vs Changpuek Kiatsongrit
^ http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=6299&cat=boxer
^ http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=6299&cat=boxer
^ MMA profile

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