Biography
In 2020, one athlete distinguished himself, which, as it seems, did not notice the work around the difficulties caused by a pandemic. This is Kevin Holland, a representative of a new fighting school, a bright person, versatile and well motivated. He does not work on his own development and has a great desire to become the strongest in the ring.Childhood and youth
Kevin Alan Holland appeared on November 5, 1992 in the California city of Riverside and grew up in the cities of Kukukong and Ontario. Now the athlete lives in Fort Werte, Texas, USA.
As a child, the boy hated the best to help her grandparents with cleaning and - so that in adulthood in his biography there was no mandatory cleaning, went to the gym. The boy often fell into a fight - because the choice was simple, from 16 years old Kevin began to practice martial arts, first it was kung fu and jiu-jitsu.
In 2009, when the young man visited the Father's family who lived in Philadelphia (the parents of the athlete in a divorce), he fell on the battles of UFC 100, to fall in love with the UFC series (absolute fighting championship). Kevin also became a big fan of one of the greatest mixed martial arts fighters (MMA) George Saint Pierre.
Mixed martial arts
After 5 victories at the amateur ring in 2015, Holland moved to MMA professionals. Before concluding a treaty with UFC, the fighter performed in the leagues organized by less large groups - Xtreme Knockout (heterval champion and twice middleweight champion), Legacy Fighting Championship, King of the Cage, Bellator MMA, Legacy Fighting Alliance.Engaged in Phalanx Mma Academy, worked with a trainer in Jiu-Jitsu Travis Lutter. Before UFC, in his account 12 wins and 3 defeats - including Russian Ramil Mustapayev.
In the summer of 2018, Holland spoke in the Dane White Tutornament "Challenger series", organized by the UFC president to search for new talents. He won the Will Santiago, but, contrary to expectations, did not receive a full-fledged contract - but only an invitation to one fight in UFC. The debut turned out to be lubricated - at UFC 227 Kevin unanimously gave way to Tiago Santos. Nevertheless, the athlete demonstrated the potential - and he was offered to continue his career in UFC.
The decision of the League managers justified itself. In 2018-2019, Holland won over Walesman John Phillips, American Gerald Mirrhertom and Italian Alessio Di Kiriko. It was planned that the next rival fighter will be the newcomer Antonio Arroyo, but promoters raised the battleship class, exposing Hollands against Brendan Allen. In this battle Kevin suffered a second defeat in the league.
Personal life
Kevin Holland prefers to be silent about a personal life. Only one of the random remarks in an interview with the beginning of 2019 was known about the change of family status of the athlete. Holland complained that his opponent Gerald Mirrhert often grabbed him.
"Damn it, what are we doing here, bro? We become too close to each other. I recently got married, and if I want an intima - then it's better to do this with my wife. And in Philadelphia I did not come to make love. "Athlete has two younger brothers with whom he often spends time and poses for the photo in "Instagram". There you can see and Kevin with a dog - Bulli Draco. But photos with women in the profile of the fighter is not at all.
Kevin Holland now
It was planned that in March 2020 Kevin Holland will reach the ring against Jack Marsham, however, because of the pandemic, the battle evening was postponed. The new rival Kevin became Anthony Hernandez, over which Holland easily took up technical knockout for 39 seconds. However, from the next battle with Daniel Rodriguez, the fighter refused due to damage to the shoulder. There was a fight with Trevin Giles, this time the cause of the health of the opponent became the cause.At UFC Fight Night 174 Holland took the top of the debutant Hoaquin Buckley, and then Darren Stewart submits him. The next rival of an American athlete was to become the Czech-Uzbek fighter Mahmoud Muradov, but he fell ill with COVID-19. "Antivirus" for Holland became a fight with Charlie ontiveros. During the battle, he received a neck injury, and Hollanda counted victory, and with her and the title of the best fighter of the evening UFC Fight Night 181.
At the end of November, the fight with Swede Jack Hermansson was canceled - Hollands came a positive test on COVID, and the fighter did not allow a fight. The test results were a mistake - the athlete felt healthy as a bull and rushed into battle. Kevin demonstrated his will to win in December 2020 at UFC 256, where I knocked out Ronaldo Sound.
This was the 5th victory of Holland in the year (4 were produced by knockouts) and the 3rd title of the fighter of the evening. In such a record in past years, only 2 athletes could be proud of: Roger Werta and Nile magnesium. December 28 Kevin Holland received an honorary title "Fighter of the Year" from the BT Sport TV channel. Having completed the season on a victorious note, Holland entered the top 10 rating of UFC medium weight fighters.
After a fight with Souza, Holland challenged the representative of the Sweden of Chechen origin Hamzat Chimaev, stating that he was ready to fight him immediately in a week. Back in September, Holland called Chimaeva "Rat" and assured that there are big problems, if he decides to return from the all-weather weight in the middle weight. It turned out that the athletes were accidentally quarreled at the hotel, where Chimaev confused Hollands, which opened business on disinfection, with service personnel.
Furior in 2020 made an athlete by one of the main favorites, and he threw the champion of the UFC champion in 2021 - Deesan's New Zealand. At the end of December, he announced that his new fight would pass with Derek Bronson in March 2021.
Achievements
- 2013 - Champion BELTS OF HONORIOUS in welterweight
- 2014 - Champion Premiere Combat GROUP in welterweight weight
- 2016-2018 - Xtreme Knockout champion in middleweight
- 2017 - Xtreme Knockout champion in welterweight
- 2020 - a three-time participant of the Best Battle of the evening, against Joaquin Buckley, Charlie Onivierros and Ronaldo Souza
- 2020 - the greatest number of victories for the calendar year in the middle weight (5 times)
- 2020 - Best Fighter of the Year of the BT Sport Channel