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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j8c7ZIt6aM 

 

I don't 'fangirl' over anyone, but I make an exception for Lucia Rijker because I think she's just incredible. This video has lots of her fights stitched together, showing the name of the opponent, the date and venue before each one. Enjoy!

Did you see "Shadowboxers"? Maybe two words. It follows Rijker as she's training with Freddie Roach and there's this scene before a fight when she's basically punching a swinging bathroom stall door. It's amazing. I think of it frequently before fights.

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Did you see "Shadowboxers"? Maybe two words. It follows Rijker as she's training with Freddie Roach and there's this scene before a fight when she's basically punching a swinging bathroom stall door. It's amazing. I think of it frequently before fights.

Yes! I absolutely loved it. I feel like the whole documentary was on Youtube somewhere. I will have to find that and post it. 

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Really enjoyed this interview, 

Favorite part:

MMAyou.com: Why are Dutch fighters so good at kickboxing?

Rijker: (laughs) Why are Dutch fighters so good at kickboxing? My philosophy is one; they have the best trainers. Two; they're so down to earth that the moment they are a champion or a legend, they are still normal people like you or me. They don't become celebrities, they don't become stars. They don't let the money and the fame get to their heads.

There was one fighter; Semmy Schilts, he won the K-1 and I hosted "It's Showtime!" which was part of the K-1 in the Netherlands last month. he was in the corner of one of his fighters. And it wasn't necessarily his fighter, it was his trainer's fighters so he right away rolls up his sleeves. He's the type of guy that goes to work the weekend after his fight and does what needs to be done. 

They don't seem to live off the high of the winning. They go back to the gym and either they teach their classes or they go back to their job, if they have a part-time job, and go to work.

I think the humbleness helps a fighter to stay real. They also train in a group with recreational people, a competition team, but they don't segregate themselves from the normal people. I think that's the number one thing. When I go to a press conference in the Netherlands, I meet all the legends like normal people and we just talk normal things. There's no bodyguards, there's no entourage, there's none of that rock star image that can come sometimes with certain champions that doesn't come with the Dutch people, because our mentality is very down to earth and very, they call it realistic. 

I'm not sure if it's realistic because people who become champions really work really hard at it but there's a part of our culture that says so what?"

 

Here's the documentary, might take a while to load because its a chinese hosting service: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDMxMTAxNDA4.html

 

Here's her talking about another bathroom incident: "When I was scheduled to fight for a main event for one million dollars in Las Vegas the owner of the promoter' gym suggested I would use the bathroom for my dressing room. A man would not have been treated like this." http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Ken/Hissner030510.htm

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Really enjoyed this interview, 

He's the type of guy that goes to work the weekend after his fight and does what needs to be done. 

They don't seem to live off the high of the winning. They go back to the gym and either they teach their classes or they go back to their job, if they have a part-time job, and go to work.

 

Love this.

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