Contender Muay Thai – Rafi Zouheir
February 11, 2009 by nopstar
We’re getting close to having a finalized list of Contender Asia Season 2 contestants. I thought I would do a post a week introducing us to who’s going to be competing on our favourite show. Based on the line up thus far it all looks like a pretty even playing field.
This weeks Contender is the winner of the Spanish qualifiers, Rafi Zouheir. I met him this past weekend and didn’t have a clue he was going to be a contestant. Zouheir qualified in the WMC Madrid contest by defeating Abdoul Tore of France. You can check out their fight here.
Here are his Deets:
Rafi Zouheir
05/23/1978
Club Barcelo & Selles Gym
181 cm / 5′9″
53W – 11L- 19 KO’s
World Champion Superwelter weight WKN
WPKL European Muay Thai Champion
Judging from his highlight reel and titles it appears Rafi started his life off as a Kickboxer. If you do a quick search on youtube, He’s got a lot of fights online. I was watching his fight with Eh Phutong and Khun Somchai’s one complaint with Rafi is that his punches lack power, then again most anyone would look like they lacked power when stacked up against Phutong.
The HL doesn’t show any deficiencies in punching power! Spinning back kicks looks great. Oh, and Photung was giving him a good beating with the high kicks, so I think Rafi couldn’t get much off.
yo tong po. it’s david from f&f. where ya been man? i haven’t seen ya in like two weeks. are you coming in at night? i need to spar and learn from you man. im doing the amateur fight in end of march. sup nop! when ya going to visit sf again?
Rafi has one more big fight against Abraham “El Demonio” Roqueñi in the MC Superfight and K-1 super 4 in Madrid 20 February 2009 before he will enter the final casting phase for season two of the Contender Asia.