The Legend of the Fighting Dutchmen

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The Legend of the Fighting Dutchmen



Kaman. Dekkers. Aerts. Dutch kick fighters are in a league of their own. But who was the best of the bunch?

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Alexander Reynolds
Jun 21 2017, 8:04pm

Who was the best Dutch kickboxer of all time? Not that old chestnut. It's as pointless as comparing a Bosch to a Breughel, a Van Gogh to a Van Dyck, a Muay Thai pioneer to a K-1 superstar.
However, during the 1980s and 1990s, a turbulent period of human history that encompasses the end of the Cold War and beginning of high strength weed, the Dutch were producing fighting works of art capable of mugging the Thais and the raging bulls and bears of North America and beyond.



Why Holland? Of all the fighting folks in old Europe, why the Dutch? Why not the Frogs, the Krauts or the have-a-go Lime Juicers for crying out loud? It's a good question fight fans. Holland is famous for windmills, canals, reefer bars and red light districts with booty assed hookers. Why was this flat and flood prone country rocking the Muay Thai and international kickboxing scene with stone killers and super predators with funny sounding names? It's a piece of sporting history that stumps practitioners and fight historians the world over to this very day.
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