Stan Longinidis

Stan Longinidis
Stan Longinidis
Born	Stan Longinidis; 25 June 1965 (age 59); Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Other names	The Man
Nationality	Australian
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	100 kg (220 lb; 16 st)
Division	Heavyweight
Style	Kickboxing
Team	mentor = Benny The Jet Urquidez
Trainer	Master Dana Goodson
Years active	20 (1983–2003)
Kickboxing record
Total	101
Wins	88
By knockout	65
Losses	8
Draws	5
Other information
Website	http://www.stantheman.com.au/
	Last updated on: 13 January 2010

Stan "The Man" Longinidis (born 25 June 1965) is a retired Australian Heavyweight kickboxer and 8 time Kickboxing World Champion. Born in Melbourne Australia of Greek ethnicity, Longinidis is one of the few fighters to have won World titles in three different styles, International Rules Kickboxing, Full Contact and Muay Thai, others being Fred Royers and Ernesto Hoost.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography and career

Stan began his career in 1983, winning two amateur titles before challenging for the World Light Heavyweight Title in 1987, a contest ending in a draw. After being approached by the Jet Centre in Van Nuys, California, With a tremendous passion to become Australia's first ever World Champion Stan quit his day job as a Computer Programmer and traveled to live and train in the United States. He racked up 18 straight wins and won the North American and USA Heavyweight Titles as well as the Australian Heavyweight title. In April 1990 he became the first Australian to win a World Kickboxing Title when he took the K.I.C.K Full Contact Super Heavyweight Title and added two WKA World Titles to his resume in 1991, one being a record 15 second knockout of American Melvin Cole in Queensland, Australia. In 1992 he defended his titles against Branko Cikatic and Grant Barker, a top 10 heavyweight at the time.

After wins over Mitch O'Hello and Adam Watt he took on Dennis Alexio in the most eagerly anticipated superfight at the time and a huge media event in Australia. The fight lasted 6 seconds, with Longinidis dealing the famed American only his second loss in over 55 fights with a low kick in the opening seconds that broke Alexio's leg.

Stan continued to fight and defend his titles as well as adding two additional titles in 1993 and 1994. In 1993, Longinidis fought against Masaaki Satake for UKF World Super heavyweight title held by Satake and WKA Kickboxing World Super heavyweight title held by Longinidis on K-1, and Longinidis lost by decision. Although he lost the bout, he didn't lose his WKA title because he asserted that the bout was not under WKA rules after the bout.

He was also the first big name and Marché fighter signed up by the K-1 Corporations competing in early K-1 shows.

In 1996 he became the first westerner to fight for and win a prestigious WMC World Super heavyweight Muay Thai Title in Thailand where he was crowned by the King of Thailand. Stan kept fighting on despite a serious knee injury that threatened to end his career, he had a complete knee reconstruction in 1997.

Longinidis fought on until 2000 where he retired after beating Peter "The Chief" Graham in Melbourne, coming out of retirement for one fight in 2003 before calling it quits with an 88-8-5-65ko's record.

Longinidis was awarded in France at a martial arts expo in 2000, a lifetime achievement award recognizing his major influential impact on the early days of the sport, and his status as one of the most famous names and brands in the history of kickboxing.

On October 10, 2013 Stan 'The Man' Longinidis became the 1st from any Martial Arts Fighting Code to be Inducted in the Australian Sports Hall Of Fame.

Stan also successfully trained his younger brother [George 'The Iron Lion' Longinidis] for a World Title fight which was held on 24 July 2009. He also Managed and introduced to the World his Greek little Dynamo prodigy Mike Zambidis.

It should also be noted that throughout his successful career, Stan's manager and closest friend was Nick Kenos later of Kenman Kandy fame. Nick not only successfully managed and promoted Stan but also gave him sound advice on how to invest his money for his future and how to get into the US movie scene, in the same way as Van Damme and Norris.

However, when they went to the USA to make Stan's first movie, everything changed and Stan's potential acting career was over.Before long his career had also finished as did his friendship with the Kenos family who had regarded him as a second son

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1990	Angel Town	Himself
1991	Ring of Fire	Terry Wu's Opponent (uncredited)
1992	Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight	Leadbottom
2002	Trojan Warrior	Ajax

Titles and accomplishments

1998 WKBF World Heavyweight champion
1996 WMTC World Heavyweight champion
1994 WAKO World Super Heavyweight champion
1993 ISKA World Heavyweight champion (Freestyle Rules)
1992 ISKA World Heavyweight champion (Oriental Rules)
1992 WKA World Super Heavyweight champion
1991 WKA World Junior Heavyweight champion
1990 KICK World Super Heavyweight Full Contact champion
1989 Intercontinental Heavyweight champion
1989 United States Heavyweight champion
1988 North American Heavyweight champion
1988 North American Heavyweight champion
1989 United States Heavyweight champion

Kickboxing record

88 wins (65 KOs) 8 Losses 5 Draws 1 NC

The bout was announced as Murakami's victory by decision at first, but it was changed to "No Contests" because Longinidis's side asserted that the decision was totally wrong and biased.
Date	Result	Opponent	Event	Location	Method	Round	Time
2001-12-16	NC	Ryuji Murakami	The Kakidamishi 2	Okinawa, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
2000-11-29	Win	Peter Graham	K-1 Oceania Star Wars 2000	Melbourne, Australia	Decision (Unanimous)	10	2:00
2000-09-03	Win	Hannes van der Berg	K-1 Africa Grand Prix 2000	Cape Town, South Africa	KO	1
2000-07-30	Loss	Taiei Kin	K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 in Nagoya	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan	Majority Decision (0-2)	3	3:00
2000-05-12	Win	Jokki Oberholtzer	K-1 King of the Ring 2000	Bologna, Italy	TKO	1	1:55
2000-03-19	Draw	Tsuyoshi Nakasako	K-1 Burning 2000	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (1-0)	5	3:00
1999-05-14	Loss	Rick Roufus	Mass Destruction	Lowell, Massachusetts, USA	TKO	9
The bout was for the vacant 1st IKF International Rules World Heavyweight championship title.
1998-10-28	Win	Tsuyoshi Nakasako	K-1 Japan '98 Kamikaze	Tokyo, Japan	TKO (Nose broken)	4
1997-07-20	Loss	Duane van der Merwe	K-1 Dream '97	Nagoya, Japan	Decision (Majority)	5	3:00
1997-06-08	Win	Grant Barker	Now Or Never	Sydney, Australia	KO (Left high kick)	2	1:00
Retains WKA Professional Kickboxing World Super heavyweight Championship title.
1997-04-29	Win	Takeru	K-1 Braves '97	Fukuoka, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
1996-12-08	Draw	Mike Bernardo	K-1 Hercules '96	Nagoya, Japan	Decision Draw	5	3:00
1996-10-18	Win	Masaaki Miyamoto	K-1 Star Wars '96	Yokohama, Japan	TKO (Corner Stoppage)	3	2:55
1996-09-01	Loss	Andy Hug	K-1 Revenge '96	Osaka, Japan	KO (Left straight)	2	2:00
Loses his WMTC World Super heavyweight Championship title.
1996-03-30	Win	Kirkwood Walker	Thai King's 50th anniversary event	Thailand	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
Wins the vacant 1st WMTC (currently WMC) World Super heavyweight Championship title.
1996-03-10	Win	Sadau Kiatsongrit	K-1 Grand Prix '96 Opening Battle	Yokohama, Japan	Ext.R Decision (Unanimous)	6	3:00
Qualifier for K-1 World Grand Prix 1996 - Stan would be unable to participate at the event due to injury.
1995-12-09	Win	Musashi	K-1 Hercules	Nagoya, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
1995-10-22	Loss	Sam Greco	"The Best of the Best" Final	Australia	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
The bout was for The Best of the Best Championship title.
1995-10-22	Win	Mitch O'Hello	"The Best of the Best" Semi final	Australia
1995-10-22	Win	Nathan Briggs	"The Best of the Best" Quarter final	Australia
1995-09-03	Win	Nobuaki Kakuda	K-1 Revenge II	Yokohama, Japan	KO(Right low kick)	2	3:05
1995-03-25	Loss	Jeff Roufus	World Cup Of Martial arts	Ledyard, Connecticut, United States	KO (Overhand Right straight)	1	0:41
The bout was for WKA, ISKA and WAKO World Super heavyweight Championship titles.
1995-05-04	Loss	Mike Bernardo	K-1 Grand Prix '95 Quarter Finals	Tokyo, Japan	KO (Right high kick)	3	1:42
1995-03-03	Win	Patrick Smith	K-1 Grand Prix '95 Opening Battle	Tokyo, Japan	KO (Right low kick)	2	2:59
Qualifies for K-1 World Grand Prix 1995.
1994-09-18	Win	Branko Cikatić	K-1 Revenge	Yokohama, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
1994-03-06	Win	Vladimir Golovinsky	"Taipan 1 The Best of the Best" Final	Australia	KO	1
Won Taipan 1 World championship title.
1994-03-06	Win	Dino Homsey	"Taipan 1 The Best of the Best" Semi-final	Australia	KO	1
1994-03-06	Win	Bob Schrijber	"Taipan 1 The Best of the Best" Quarter-final	Australia	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
1993-09-04	Loss	Masaaki Satake	K-1 Illusion	Tokyo, Japan	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
The bout was for UKF World Super heavyweight title held by Satake and WKA Kickboxing World Super heavyweight title held by Longinidis. Longinidis lost this bout, but he didn't lose his WKA title because he asserted that the bout was not under WKA rules after the bout.
1993-07-25	Win	Gary Sandland	Battle of Champions	Australia	KO (Right straight)	3
Retains WKA Kickboxing World Super heavyweight Championship title.
1993-03-30	Win	Toshiyuki Atokawa	K-1 Sanctuary I	Tokyo, Japan	TKO (Referee stoppage)	5	2:22
1992-12-06	Win	Dennis Alexio	Alexio vs. Longinidis	Australia	TKO (Left Low kick)	1	0:15
Won ISKA Oriental Rules World Heavyweight Championship title. This bout was listed on the Guinness World Records as "The Fastest KO in kickboxing world title match".
1992-10-04	Win	Adam Watt	Martial Arts Olympic III Karate World Cup '92	Japan	TKO (dislocation of shoulder)
1992	Win	Mitch O'Hello		Australia	KO (Low kick)	1
1992	Win	Grant Barker		Australia	KO (Left low kicks)	4
Retains WKA Kickboxing World Junior heavyweight Championship title.
1992	Win	Branko Cikatić		Melbourne, Australia	Decision (Unanimous)	12
Retains WKA Kickboxing World Junior heavyweight Championship title.
1992-12-01	Win	Lawrence White		Australia	KO	7
Won WKA Kickboxing World Junior heavyweight Championship title.
1991	Loss	Maurice Smith		Sydney, Australia	Decision(Split)	12	2:00
This bout was for WKA Kickboxing World Heavyweight Championship title.
1990-04	Win	Anthony Elmore		Sydney, Australia	Decision (Split)	12
Won KICK Full Contact World Super heavyweight Championship title. Longinidis became the 1st Australian world champion of kickboxing.
1990	Win	Dale Broussard	Super Heavyweights 6 Rounds	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	KO (Right hook)	1
Stan's kickboxing record was announced as "15 wins - 0 loss - 1 Draw 10 KOs" just before this bout.
1989-12-04	Win	Charles Archie		Melbourne, Australia	KO (Right hook)	1
Retains WKA Kickboxing USA Heavyweight championship title.
1988-03	Win	Brendon Leddy		Los Angeles, USA	KO	3
Won WKA Kickboxing USA Heavyweight championship title.
1987	Draw	Santiago Garza			Decision Draw	12	2:00