Antz Nansen
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Anthony "Antz" Nansen is an New Zealand
boxer
, kickboxer
and mixed martial artist
. He began training in kickboxing
at the age of 21. He is the cousin of Ray Sefo
. He holds a professional kickboxing
record of 22 wins and 2 loss, and has been the kickboxing champion of New Zealand
in three different weight classes. He defeated Joel Martin in October 2008 to become the World Kickboxing Federation
(WKBF) Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion of New Zealand.
On 23 September 2009, he made his mixed martial arts
debut against Olympic judo
ka Hiroshi Izumi
at World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 10
in Saitama
, Japan
. Nansen was able to control the fight with his striking and won via technical knockout in the first round.
The following year, on 25 April, Nansen took part in his second MMA bout at ASTRA: Yoshida's Farewell
against jiu-jitsu
fighter Enson Inoue, who was making his return to the ring after six years of retirement. Inoue used his superior grappling
skills to win via submission by using an armbar in round 1.
He was then set to faced Satoshi Ishii
, another of Japan's Olympic judoka, at the K-1 World MAX 2010
. However, Nansen was unable to compete for unknown reasons.
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|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Res.
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Record
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponnent
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Rd., Time
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes
|-
| style="background: Loss
| align=center|3-1
|
Seiaute Mailata
| align=center|KO
| align=center|1 (4)
| align=center|16 September 2008
|
Otara, New Zealand
|
|-
| style="background: Win
| align=center|3-0
| Sean Sullivan
| align=center|MD
| align=center|3, 3:00
| align=center|1 December 2007
| Ellerslie, New Zealand
|
|-
| style="background: Win
| align=center|2-0
| Shane Old
| align=center|TKO
| align=center|2 (3)
| align=center|5 May 2007
| Ellerslie, New Zealand
|
|-
| style="background: Win
| align=center|1-0
| Jeff Seedy
| align=center|UD
| align=center|3, 2:00
| align=center|2 December 2006
| Ellerslie, New Zealand
| Professional boxing debut.
|-
|Loss
|align=center|1-1
|
United States Enson Inoue
|Submission (armbar)
|ASTRA: Yoshida's Farewell
|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2:10
|
Japan Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|1-0
| Japan Hiroshi Izumi
|TKO (punches)
|Sengoku: Tenth Battle
|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2:56
| Japan Saitama, Japan
|
|-
|}
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
, 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....
and mixed martial artist
Mixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
Career
Nansen practiced Kung Fu as a child and grew up playing rugby leagueRugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
. He began training in kickboxing
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....
at the age of 21. He is the cousin of Ray Sefo
Ray Sefo
"Sugar" Ray Sefo is a New Zealand kickboxer, boxer and mixed martial artist. He is five time Muay Thai World champion and eight time K-1 World Grand Prix Finals tournament participant, currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada and training with Xtreme Couture.He holds notable wins in the K-1 over...
. He holds a professional kickboxing
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....
record of 22 wins and 2 loss, and has been the kickboxing champion of New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
in three different weight classes. He defeated Joel Martin in October 2008 to become the World Kickboxing Federation
World Kickboxing Federation
The ' founded in 1963 is a martial arts organization that promotes Muay Thai, Kickboxing and Mixed martial arts. Since 2009 Mrs. Alischia CZAJA from Poland becomes World president. Since January 2011 Mr...
(WKBF) Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion of New Zealand.
On 23 September 2009, he made his mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
debut against Olympic judo
Judo
is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
ka Hiroshi Izumi
Hiroshi Izumi
Hiroshi Izumi is a Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist.He won the Men's -90kg category silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and the gold medal at the World judo championship games in Cairo, Egypt on 2005....
at World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 10
World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 10
World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 10 was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Victory Road on September 23, 2009. The event included three Gold Cup matches featuring the winners of Sengoku: Gold Cup South Korea versus the winners of Sengoku: Gold Cup Japan. It was broadcast live in North...
in Saitama
Saitama, Saitama
' is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture in Japan, situated in the south-east of the prefecture. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Nansen was able to control the fight with his striking and won via technical knockout in the first round.
The following year, on 25 April, Nansen took part in his second MMA bout at ASTRA: Yoshida's Farewell
Astra (event)
ASTRA was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Japanese entertainment group J-Rock. This event took place on April 25, 2010, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. It served as a farewell event for legendary Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist Hidehiko Yoshida...
against jiu-jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art, combat sport, and a self defense system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting...
fighter Enson Inoue, who was making his return to the ring after six years of retirement. Inoue used his superior grappling
Grappling
Grappling refers to techniques, maneuvers, and counters applied to an opponent in order to gain a physical advantage, such as improving relative position, escaping, submitting, or injury to the opponent. Grappling is a general term that covers techniques used in many disciplines, styles and martial...
skills to win via submission by using an armbar in round 1.
He was then set to faced Satoshi Ishii
Satoshi Ishii
is a Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist noted for winning a gold medal in Olympic Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games and two All-Japan Judo Championships...
, another of Japan's Olympic judoka, at the K-1 World MAX 2010
K-1 World MAX 2010 World Championship Tournament Final
K-1 World MAX 2010 –70 kg World Championship Tournament Final was a martial arts event to be held by the K-1 on Monday, November 8, 2010 at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. It will be the 9th inaugural K-1 World Max Final, the culmination of a year full of regional elimination tournaments...
. However, Nansen was unable to compete for unknown reasons.
Titles
- IMF Heavyweight Muay Thai Champion of New Zealand
- WKBF Super Heavyweight Muay Thai Champion of New Zealand
- WKBF Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion of New Zealand
- WKBF Super Cruiserweight Kickboxing Champion of New Zealand
Boxing record
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|3 Wins (1 knockout 2 decisions), 1 Loss, 0 Draws|-
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Res.
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Record
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponnent
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Rd., Time
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location
|align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes
|-
| style="background: Loss
| align=center|3-1
|
Seiaute Mailata| align=center|KO
| align=center|1 (4)
| align=center|16 September 2008
|
Otara, New Zealand|
|-
| style="background: Win
| align=center|3-0
|
Sean SullivanSean Sullivan (boxer)
Sean Sullivan is a professional boxer from New Zealand. He was ranked as the world's seventh best welterweight by the WBA and the IBF. Sullivan has held national titles in six weight divisions in New Zealand...
| align=center|MD
| align=center|3, 3:00
| align=center|1 December 2007
|
Ellerslie, New ZealandEllerslie, New Zealand
Ellerslie is a suburb of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is seven kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, close to State Highway 1...
|
|-
| style="background: Win
| align=center|2-0
|
Shane Old| align=center|TKO
| align=center|2 (3)
| align=center|5 May 2007
|
Ellerslie, New ZealandEllerslie, New Zealand
Ellerslie is a suburb of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is seven kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, close to State Highway 1...
|
|-
| style="background: Win
| align=center|1-0
|
Jeff Seedy| align=center|UD
| align=center|3, 2:00
| align=center|2 December 2006
|
Ellerslie, New ZealandEllerslie, New Zealand
Ellerslie is a suburb of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is seven kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, close to State Highway 1...
| Professional boxing debut.
|-
Kickboxing record
| Kickboxing record | |
|---|---|
Legend: |
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Mixed martial arts record
|-|Loss
|align=center|1-1
|
United States Enson InoueEnson Inoue
Enson Inoue is a Japanese American mixed martial artist. He has a professional MMA record of 12-8-0. He is a former Shooto Heavyweight Champion. He had also previously fought in Pride Fighting Championships, the biggest mixed martial arts organization at the time...
|Submission (armbar)
|ASTRA: Yoshida's Farewell
Astra (event)
ASTRA was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Japanese entertainment group J-Rock. This event took place on April 25, 2010, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. It served as a farewell event for legendary Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist Hidehiko Yoshida...
|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2:10
|
Japan Tokyo, Japan|
|-
|Win
|align=center|1-0
|
Japan Hiroshi IzumiHiroshi Izumi
Hiroshi Izumi is a Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist.He won the Men's -90kg category silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and the gold medal at the World judo championship games in Cairo, Egypt on 2005....
|TKO (punches)
|Sengoku: Tenth Battle
World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 10
World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 10 was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Victory Road on September 23, 2009. The event included three Gold Cup matches featuring the winners of Sengoku: Gold Cup South Korea versus the winners of Sengoku: Gold Cup Japan. It was broadcast live in North...
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|align="center"|1
|align="center"|2:56
|
Japan Saitama, Japan|
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