Orlando Wiet

Orlando Otmar Wiet start in Purmerend white Cees van der Velden in Purmerend and after was training in Breda with Ramon Dekkers , Cor Hemmers. He also trained in Thailand in Buriram Nonkee Payuthe white Mr. Pramote and fought in the Old Lumpini Staduim in Bongkok Thaïland for the promoter Mr. Songchai Ratanasuban some periods , the first not thaï vechter too win a fight on point. Orlando fought at K-1, It's Showtime tournaments. In Purmerend Hollande Cees van der Velden in 1985 Orlando defeated Stephane Nikiema and won European muaithai championship. In 1989 he defeated Omar Benamar and won world title.[1][2][3][4] Orlando defeated Ivan Hippolyte in 1995 April. Next defeated fighter was Azem Maksutaj and after that he took part in K-1 Grand Prix tournament in 1995 July, defeating Franz Haller at first round and loss to Taiei Kin in second round, Ivan Hippolyte who was defeated by Oralndo in previous match won that tournament.[5]

In 1994 Orlando Otmar Wiet decided to take part in UFC 2 tournament the first fighter living in France. UFC 2 was tournament with fighters of different styles. Orlando represented muay-tai. He was lightest fighter among sixteen participants of tournament with 170 pounds of weight. However, in the opening round, he could use his muay thai techniques and defeated 6.2 tall and 245 pounds Robert Lucarelli via TKO (Corner Stoppage) with elbow, knee strikes and punches. Then, in the quarterfinals, he met tallest and heaviest judo fighter of that tournament, 6.4 tall and 260 pounds Remco Pardoel. Pardoel could use his weight advantage and Orlando was defeated via TKO and got seriously injured. After next loss to Todd Bjornethun year later Orlando decided to focus on boxing and kickboxing.

Orlando Otmar Wiet start his boxing white Jean Robert Pujol career in 1996. And he held boxing matches in parallel with kickboxing. After four win streak he was defeated by Aziz Daari. And next fights were not so successful as in kickboxing. He had matches against such opponents as Byron Mitchell, Bruno Girard.[6]

Wiet's career ended in 1999 when he sustained a critical groin injury throwing a high kick in training. Wiet retired from fights in 1999 after 180 fights and number of injuries. However he came back once in 2005, once in 2008 and once in 2011 to fight in MMA. All three fights he loss by submission. Wiet has subsequently worked as a coach, training fighters such as Karim Souda .[7]

Orlando Wiet was married to Valérie Hénin, female boxer with 2-0-1 record in professional boxing and kickboxer with 0–2 record. Valerie helped her husband in training for part of his matches. The couple broke up a little later. From this marriage, Orlando has a two daughters Magda and Lena Wiet, Magda Wiet is taekwondo world champion Magda Wiet-Hénin.[8][6]

• European Muaythai Champion
• 5 time world Muaythai Champion
• WTC Super Middleweight World Champion 1997