Aalviar "The Machine" Lima (born 23 March 1978) is a Cape Verde

Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

an-Dutch middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 kickboxer

Kickboxing

Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....

 fighting out of Dordrecht

Dordrecht

Dordrecht , colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the fourth largest city of the province, having a population of 118,601 in 2009...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. He made his K-1

K-1

K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...

 debut against Warren Stevelmans

Warren Stevelmans

Warren "Chaka Zulu" Stevelmans is a South African kickboxer, fighting out of Vos Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the K-1 MAX Netherlands 2008 tournament champion.-Biography and career:...

 in K-1 MAX Netherlands 2008 The Final Qualification.

Career

Lima has fought in various events and tournaments around Europe such as Beast of the East, It's Showtime Trophy, Klash Event, SuperLeague, and Ring Masters. In SuperLeague, he reached his peak with clutching the title where he had beaten respectively José Reis

José Reis (kickboxer)

José 'The Devil's Advocate' Reis is a Portuguese Muay Thai kickboxer of Cape Verdian descent fighting out of Lisbon, Portugal for Olival Gym at either welterweight or super middleweight. He is the 2010 W.F.C.A. Full Contact world champion and a x2 K-1 MAX regional champion who has fought for both...

, Ali Gunyar

Ali Gunyar

Ali Gunyar is a Turkish-Dutch middleweight Muay Thai kickboxer fighting out of Eindhoven, Netherlands for Team Gunyar, where he is trained by his brother Suleyman Gunyar. Ali is a four-time kickboxing and Muay Thai world champion, who has made appearances for the K-1 MAX, SuperLeague and It's...

, and Kamal El Amrani in 2005. He also has some remarkable victory records over Imro Main and Vasily Shish

Vasily Shish

Vasily "Torero" Shish is a Belarusian Muay Thai middleweight kickboxer fighting out of Minsk, Belarus for the Chinuk Gym. He is a five time world and five time European Muaythai and kickboxing champion who has won titles at both amateur and professional level...

 in Klash Event.

He has been invited to K-1 after his knock-out victory over Nieky Holzken

Nieky Holzken

Nieky "The Natural" Holzken is Dutch welterweight kickboxer, fighting out of Golden Glory Gym in Breda, Netherlands. He is two time European Muay Thai champion and K-1 MAX Scandinavia 2006 tournament champion currently competing in K-1 MAX.-Biography and career:Nieky Holzken made his K-1 debut on...

. which also was selected as one of the best KOs of the year by Fight Club

Eurosport Fight Club

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, the martial arts magazine of multi-sports channel Eurosport

Eurosport

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.

Miscellaneous

Former K-1 World Max champion Albert Kraus

Albert Kraus

Albert “The Hurricane” Kraus is a Dutch welterweight kickboxer. He was the first K-1 World MAX 2002 champion and has also held four separate world titles in kickboxing and Muay Thai...

 and It's Showtime Reality Show contender Swede

Sweden

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 fighter Elias Daniel are some of his sparring mates.

His name is also written as Alviar Lima instead.

Titles

• 2010 Beast of the East tournament runner up -72.5 kg
• 2009 Beast of the East tournament runner up -72.5 kg
• 2008 WFCA Muaythai World champion -76 kg
• 2008 WFCA Thaiboxing Middleweight world champion -72.57 kg
• 2007 IKBA Thaiboxing World champion
• 2006 SuperLeague Middleweight title -73 kg
• 2006 It's Showtime 75MAX Trophy Belgium Pool A winner -75 kg
• 2005 IKBA Thaiboxing World champion -73 kg
• 2005 SuperLeague Middleweight Tournament champion -73 kg

Kickboxing record

Kickboxing record
Legend:

See also

• List of K-1 events
• List of male kickboxers
• List of It's Showtime events
• List of It's Showtime champions

External links

• K-1 Profile
• Super League Profile