Gary Daniels
WIKIPEDIA excerpt - Retrieved 26 May 2011
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Kickboxing career
Soon after, Daniels travelled to California. In November 1990,
Daniels won the WKBA California State Light-Heavyweight Championship. That same
month, he won the WKBA Light-Heavyweight Kickboxing Title. Later, Daniels went
on to win the Professional Karate Association Light Heavyweight Kickboxing
Championship. |
Fortunately, Gary Daniels is more than a
gym champ. He won a number of legitimate kickboxing matches and championship
trophies as an amateur. The STAR world ratings,
however, did not document amateur kickboxing competition, and STAR had been
discontinued by the time of Daniels’ ring fights. Consequently, in May 2011, I
spoke directly with Joe
Corley, current owner of the Professional
Karate Association, about Daniels’ PKA
title.
Corley could neither confirm nor deny Daniels’ championship.
After the PKA
ceased as a major sanctioning body in late 1986, the PKA affiliate
in Britain continued with its local promotions. Daniels’ title claim, he said,
came out of those events. That means the title Daniels won was not a major
professional kickboxing world championship of the type that previously had been
supported by a world network of promotions during the PKA’s golden
yesteryears.
I worked behind the scenes on two motion pictures with Gary
Daniels in the early 1990s. He was always charismatic, personable and quite honorable.