“Pequeno” and Schilt Highlight HERO’s Non-Tourney Bouts
Semmy Schilt vs. Min Soo Kim
Aug 4, 2006
SCHILT: Dutch freestyle fighter Semmy Schilt (Pictures) is a fourth degree black belt in
Ashihara Karate, a certified Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling instructor
and the three-time King of Pancrase.
He has won the Europe Karate Championship, the DaiDoJuku Hokutoki Championship and won the K-1 WORLD GP 2005 in Paris. Semmy sports a 17-3-1 record in K-1 and is 23-14-1 in MMA.
Semmy began training in karate at the age of 8. He competed in
karate tournaments in his native Holland as well as Germany, Japan,
Russia and England. After several years on the barehanded
full-contact karate circuit, Schilt decided to try more open rules
fighting and in 1998 he became a professional freestyle
fighter.
Semmy has been competing on the Pancrase circuit since 1996 and fought exclusively for them until 1999. He would meet Yuki Kondo (Pictures) four times, with Kondo winning the first three meetings by decision (which says a lot about Kondo) and Schilt finally won a bout by submission (rear-choke) when they last met in ’99. He also won his 1st King of Pancrase title against Kondo.
He competed in PRIDE from ‘01 to ’04 and beat all of his opponents save Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (Pictures), Fedor Emelianenko (Pictures) and Sergei Kharitonov (Pictures) (he also lost to Josh Barnett (Pictures) in the ’03 Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye event). A submission win over Gan McGee (Pictures) at PRIDE Elimination 2004 earned him a spot in the second round of the tournament, but Kharitonov made short work of the long Dutchman and this will be his first MMA bout in two years.
KIM: Korean Judo stylist Min Soo Kim (Pictures) is 2-1 in K-1 kickboxing and 2-2 in MMA. He won the silver (under 100-kg division) and bronze medals (over 100-kg division) in the 2000 the Iran FAJR International Tournament. He took the silver (under 100-kg division) in the 2001 11th Pacific Judo Championship and the gold medal (under 100-kg division) in the 2003 Iran FAJR International Tournament.
In the K-1 Kim made it to the final of the 2006 K-1 World GP in Seoul by defeating Kyoung Suk Kim and Mourad Bouzidi by decision. He was KO’d in the second round by Yusuke Fujimoto in the final. His MMA career began in 2005 at the first K-1 HEROS show. He was knocked out by Bob Sapp (Pictures) and returned to face Ray Sefo (Pictures) only to be finished again with a kick.
In Seoul he would rebound with a submission win over former pro wrestler and legitimate martial artist Sean O’Haire via guillotine choke. Kim returns to K-1 off a submission win over Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Pictures) last March.
MY PICK: Schilt. Semmy is a very good striker. His long reach coupled with his karate background gives him excellent tools to keep the fight standing. Schilt doesn’t need to pull someone’s head down to knee them in the face. He also has a front kick that could stop most anyone in their tracks if it lands solid. Kim has shown improvement in his last two outings but Schilt will be the best-rounded opponent he’s faced in MMA. Semmy has always had poor takedown defense and can be brought to the mat with limited effort but Kim will need to get real close to do that. I don’t like his chances against a competent 7 footer.
He has won the Europe Karate Championship, the DaiDoJuku Hokutoki Championship and won the K-1 WORLD GP 2005 in Paris. Semmy sports a 17-3-1 record in K-1 and is 23-14-1 in MMA.
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Semmy has been competing on the Pancrase circuit since 1996 and fought exclusively for them until 1999. He would meet Yuki Kondo (Pictures) four times, with Kondo winning the first three meetings by decision (which says a lot about Kondo) and Schilt finally won a bout by submission (rear-choke) when they last met in ’99. He also won his 1st King of Pancrase title against Kondo.
He fought in Holland against future teammate Gilbert Yvel (Pictures) in a RINGS Holland event and
again in 2000 against Yoshihisa Yamamoto
(Pictures). After that he fought
another bout in Holland for the It’s Showtime promotion and quickly
branched out to the UFC and PRIDE. After fighting in two bouts for
the UFC (he beat Pete
Williams and lost to Josh
Barnett (Pictures)), Schilt made the move back to
fighting in Japan.
He competed in PRIDE from ‘01 to ’04 and beat all of his opponents save Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (Pictures), Fedor Emelianenko (Pictures) and Sergei Kharitonov (Pictures) (he also lost to Josh Barnett (Pictures) in the ’03 Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye event). A submission win over Gan McGee (Pictures) at PRIDE Elimination 2004 earned him a spot in the second round of the tournament, but Kharitonov made short work of the long Dutchman and this will be his first MMA bout in two years.
KIM: Korean Judo stylist Min Soo Kim (Pictures) is 2-1 in K-1 kickboxing and 2-2 in MMA. He won the silver (under 100-kg division) and bronze medals (over 100-kg division) in the 2000 the Iran FAJR International Tournament. He took the silver (under 100-kg division) in the 2001 11th Pacific Judo Championship and the gold medal (under 100-kg division) in the 2003 Iran FAJR International Tournament.
In the K-1 Kim made it to the final of the 2006 K-1 World GP in Seoul by defeating Kyoung Suk Kim and Mourad Bouzidi by decision. He was KO’d in the second round by Yusuke Fujimoto in the final. His MMA career began in 2005 at the first K-1 HEROS show. He was knocked out by Bob Sapp (Pictures) and returned to face Ray Sefo (Pictures) only to be finished again with a kick.
In Seoul he would rebound with a submission win over former pro wrestler and legitimate martial artist Sean O’Haire via guillotine choke. Kim returns to K-1 off a submission win over Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Pictures) last March.
MY PICK: Schilt. Semmy is a very good striker. His long reach coupled with his karate background gives him excellent tools to keep the fight standing. Schilt doesn’t need to pull someone’s head down to knee them in the face. He also has a front kick that could stop most anyone in their tracks if it lands solid. Kim has shown improvement in his last two outings but Schilt will be the best-rounded opponent he’s faced in MMA. Semmy has always had poor takedown defense and can be brought to the mat with limited effort but Kim will need to get real close to do that. I don’t like his chances against a competent 7 footer.
