Cristiana Stancu


Cristiana "Mongol" Stancu is a Romanian mixed martial artist, karateka, boxer and kickboxer.

Early life

Cristiana was raised in Bucharest, Romania, born from a professional bowling player and a jujitsu martial artist. She had an early start in both martial arts and painting, her second profession, when her parents observed her talents since she was only three years old. She began her career in combat sports at age 9 while painting in the same complex in the capital, the father of one of her colleagues painting being a martial arts coach. She retired from her Kyokushin karate career after 9 glamorous years, to begin developing in the art of Kempo, and then start her Kickboxing and MMA career, being the first woman in Romania to ever enter a cage and win and international World Title under Igor Vovchanchyn. Later, Cristiana would also pursue her boxing career.

Fighting career

Kyokushin & Sei Budokai career

SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship career

On February 26, 2015 it was announced that will compete in the first ever women's fight in SUPERKOMBAT history, bout scheduled March 7 against Annalisa Bucci at SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix I 2015 in Ploiești, Romania.

Championships and accomplishments

Kickboxing

Boxing

MMA record

Kickboxing record

Life

She's specialist in iconography. Some of her icons were sold over a thousand euros.
Cristiana took part in several kyokushin and kempo events in Japan, where she met Ray Sefo, Jayson Vemoa or the coaches of Francisco Filho and Glaube Feitosa becoming friends with all and learning from them. Her models are Benny Urquidez, Chuck Norris, Fedor Emelianenko. Portuguese champion José Fortes also educated her on Muay Thai.

Other

Along with her spouse, Cristiana has created the Societies Magazine, a cultural magazine in Romania, with a general view over the Romanian society and the foreign societies Romania is interacting.
Also, she is the general editor for Sport Revolution Magazine, the best sports magazine in Romania.
Asian Games, Turkmenistan 2017.
Cristiana was a special reporter for the Indoor and Martial Arts Games, held in Ashgabad, Turkmenistan.
She has been invited to speak in different events about her success story both life and sport. Because of her great speaking talent she influences in a positive way many people. Recently, she made her debut in professional speaking on TEDx stage.
-2015 Sports Person in Romania, awarded by Alexandrion Group
-2015 The Person of the Year in Sports, awarded by Cotidianul