Wei Rui


Wei Rui is a Chinese Sanshou kickboxer. He is from Da Dong Xiang fight club. February 25, 2017, he get K-1 World GP Lightweight Champions. As of 1 November 2018, he is ranked the #3 bantamweight in the world by Combat Press.

Background

Wei Rui was born on May 25, 1991 into a poor rural family as the youngest of five siblings in Luyi, Henan. The financial struggles of his family along with his disinterest in attending school led to him to pursue martial arts at the Luyi Shaolin Wenwu School. Here he trained and competed in Sanda for two years until he left the school to seek employment in order to support his family. With his martial arts background, Wei managed to get a job as a security guard when he moved to Beijing which he later quit after his dissatisfaction with the state of his career. This motivated him to travel to Liaoning and train at the Liaoyang Sports School to compete in Sanda once again. After winning a number of provincial championships he was invited back to the Luyi Shaolin Wenwu School in his home province to represent them in the 2010 and 2011 Shenzhen Sanda Boxing Association Championships winning both tournaments respectively. Wei's newfound success in Sanda led him to make the transition into competing internationally under kickboxing rules.

Career

December 5, 2015 in Zhengzhou, Henan WLF World Championship 2015 -63 kg Tournament, Finals, Wei Rui defeated Deng Zeqi by TKO via punches in the 4th round to win the WLF World Championship 2015 -63 kg belt during the tournament, finals.
November 12, 2017 in Madrid at the Strikers League: Madrid, Wei Rui defeated Jesus Romero to win the Superlightweight Strikers League World Championship belt.
June 28, 2017 Wei Rui beat Gonnapar Weerasakreck to defend the K-1 Lightweight Championship in Japan K-1 World GP 2017 Super Middleweight Championship Tournament.
February 25, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan K-1 World GP 2017 Lightweight Championship Tournament Wei Rui won the inaugural K-1 Lightweight Championship belt by defeating Ren Hiramoto via split decision.
July 7, 2018 in Guangdong, China - GOH 63kg Championship Tournament, Finals, Wei Rui won the GOH 63kg Championship belt by defeating Deng Zeqi again by KO in a rematch, this time with a left knee to the body during the second round.

Championships and awards

Mixed martial arts record