Artem Pashporin


Artem Pashporin, GPRO, intercontinental WKU Champion, World Champion S-1, European WMC Champion

Biography and career

He was born in the city of Bogorodsk, Nizhny Novgorod region. Then, together with his parents, he moved to the city of Nizhny Novgorod. He is wanted to practice martial arts since childhood. He wanted to become a judoist following the example of his father, but due to the absence of coaches in the city at the age of 11, he went to the karate section. Following the trainer, Maxim Vinogradov, who participated in muay thai competitions, turned to this kind of martial arts, which soon became his speciality.
During one of the fights, he made several cut his opponent's head, after that, in consonance with the last name, he received the nickname "Rus Spur". In continuation of the theme for the professional ring chose the image of a cowboy.
In parallel with sports, he studied at Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named Alekseev.
In 2015, Artem Pashporin won the Russian muay thai cup in categories up to 71 kg. In the summer of 2015, Artem went to the bout against muay thai legend Buakaw Banchamek, who was win by decision on the basis of three rounds. At the end of the year in Vienna in fights with Alexandre Cosmo and Chris Ngimbé Artem won the W5 world title.
In 2016, he became world champion GPRO, in the third round, he forced Itay Gershon to refuse to continue the fight.
In 2017 he have lost the title of W5 world champion in the fight with kickboxing legend Giorgio Petrosyan, losing to him on points in a five-round bout.
2018 Artem started with a win by knockout in the second round over Magnus Anderssan at the Battle of Champions-10 tournament, where he represented Russia in the muay thai block. In the next fight, Artem was to fight with Enrik Kehl at the ACB KB – 15 tournament, but the fight did not take place for reasons unknown to both sides. Until the end of this year, Artem was able to win three more belts. Intercontinental champion WKU, World champion S-1, European WMC champion. 2018 was the most fruitful in Artem's career. During the year he scored 5 wins in 5 fights and won 4 belts.
Artem started 2019 with a rematch with the muaythai and kickboxing living legend Buakaw Banchamek, in which he lost on points. The fight was the main event of the All Star Fight tournament, which was held on March 9 in Bangkok under the open sky at the stadium of the second cavalry division of the King's guard. The next fight Rus Spur spent the same with a fighter of the club Banchamek. On the eighth of July at the arena of the RCC Academy in Yekaterinburg in the framework of the Fair Fight IX tournament, Artem Pashporin managed to win by the results of three rounds over Yodwicha Banchamek by a unanimous decision of the judges, however, later the organizers of the tournament decided to cancel the result of this fight because of public criticism. On September 14, Artem returned to the Kunlun fight tournament to compete for the title of Intercontinental champion in the four-man tournament. In the first fight, the Russian won over Song Shaoqiu from China, and in the final lost by a split decision to the representative of Belarus Denis Zuev. Artem planned to finish 2019 at the Battle of Champions 11 tournament, where in the main fight he had to fight for the title of Intercontinental champion according to WMC, against Masoud Minaeyu from Iran, but an arm injury received in the first fight of the tournament-four KLF did not allow Artem to enter the fight. Instead, two-time world champion in Thai Boxing Magomed Zainukov came to the fight and won the title of Intercontinental champion according to WMC.

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