I’ve never heard of the guys who flatlined Jairzinho before, not saying they aren’t studs.
just kind of interesting, imo.
Raul "White Tyson" Cătinaș (name given by legendary coach Thom Harinck who says Cătinaș hits harder than Jerome Le Banner who was the hardest white hitter in K-1) does not have a Wikipedia page anymore, not sure why because he was on Wiki, but he is a 2-time Final 16 participant in K-1. In terms of rankings in Romania he is after Ghiță and Adegbuyi, somewhere with Moroșanu. I have the feeling he is better than Iftimoaie and Zmărăndescu (the kickboxer, not the MMA artist) were. If we consider the Stoica brothers and Sebastian Cozmâncă as light-heavyweights (Ciobanu was surely under Cătinaș).
Soneca was not notable, regional Brazilian kickboxer who was under Alex Pereira and Cesar Almeida.
But Rozenstruik, on the other hand, in kickboxing was like 3rd tier. Not a bad fighter, with potential, but very slow. Still, until to switch to MMA, he was growing up. But still almost as non-notable as Soneca. Though he was more solid and coming from the Netherlands.
Netherlands is No 1 nation in kickboxing, Romania is like No 2 but many haters would not agree. The Romanian boxers have migrated to kickboxing, and the circuit if of course a lot less paid than the British one in boxing (kickboxing is not a well paid sport) but in terms of TV is much better than the Dutch one now. (In) Romania, a kind of Britain of kickboxing.
Also, the kickboxing record of Rozenstruik IS FAKE. He was known in the Netherlands, but not for being top. So it is a fake. There are not so many kickboxers in Suriname to make such a record.
Barely were a few of heavyweights, and the others in the Netherlands.
Just saying Cătinaș is very legit and is very liked on Youtube. He will make GLORY debut in the next event. Cătinaș has dynamite in his hands, but lacks reach. Like Tyson. And he was not so good until his last years, I mean in terms of being a sniper and technique.