Mighty Mo (kickboxer)
Mighty Mo 2006
Siala - Mou "Mighty Mo" Siligia ( born October 8, 1970) is a Samoan kickboxer, boxer and MMA fighter. He won the K -1 World Grand Prix 2004 tournament in Las Vegas and K- 1 World Grand Prix 2007 tournament in Hawaii.
K- 1 career
Mighty Mo debuted in February 2004 at the K -1 in the "K -1 Burning" event in Japan against Hiraku Hori, he in the fourth round with a right hook ko suggested. After he failed in the semifinals of his first tournament, he celebrated his comeback four months later in Las Vegas. There he won for the first time a K-1 Grand Prix tournament by defeating Brecht Wallis in the second round of the finals.
Mo came in 2007 after a year's break back to K -1. In Yokohama, Japan, he was up against Choi Hong -man, a 218 cm large fighter from Korea. Mo was able to place his infamous rights and was the first and so far only one with against Choi Ko won. He also broke another record. Never had a K-1 fighters, in spite of such a size disadvantage (33 cm) to defeat his opponents. However, this mark was surpassed in December 2007 by Nicholas Petta (180 cm), who struck down the 217 cm large Korean Kim Young -Hyun (37 cm size difference ) spectacular.
In April 2007, Mighty Mo 2007 tournament in Hawaii was traded as the top favorite for the K -1 World Grand Prix. He could against all three opponents with whacked prevail and thus qualified for the elimination matches in Seoul, Korea.
Mo lost the newly introduced K-1 Super Heavyweight Championship against Semmy Schilt. Even against the Germans Stefan " Blitz" Leko he suffered a point defeat.
In the final elimination in 2007, Choi Hong-Man got his revenge. Mo lost the fight by unanimous decision. During the fight he got from a dirty low blow and was mistakenly counted out by the referee. The resulting residue was critical points for the defeat. After the fight Mo said in an interview: " Choi made a somewhat stronger impression on me. I have well met him a few times, even harder than the last fight, and he did not go to the ground, which surprised me. He has to be able to put away training for it blows better apparently. I feel discriminated against and should have won. The referees were biased. Choi must have acquired below the belt a new technique for punches. The next time I use a better jock strap. And I want the next time not fighting in Korea against him. "
2 October 2010 Mo took surprising part in the Final Elimination in Seoul. He stood in for Ruslan Karajew, due to the flu could not attend. His opponent was the young Raul Catinas. Mo did not have enough time to properly prepare for the battle, but won thanks to a precipitate in the first round of the fight on points for themselves. He was surprisingly in the K- 1 World Grand Prix 2010.
On December 11, 2010 Mon met at the World Grand Prix 2010 in the first fight of the tournament on Peter Aerts. This battle was lost a rematch of 2005 in Mo against Aerts. But even in this fight Mo could not reach the technical class of Aerts lost the fight after two minutes and 30 seconds by KO
On 2 March 2012, he fought during the Šteko 's Fight Night against the WKA World Champion Florian Pavic at the WKA World Championship to 95 kg. He was defeated here by 5 x 3 minutes after points.
Title
- 2007 K -1 World Grand Prix champion in Hawaii
- 2004 K -1 World Grand Prix in Las Vegas II champion
- U.A.G.F. Heavyweight Champion
- Northwest Toughman Champion