Jérôme Le Banner

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Jérôme Le Banner

Jérôme Le Banner (born December 26, 1972 in Le Havre ) is a former French martial artist .

Life

Jérôme Le Banner grew up in Le Havre, France . His father was a truck driver and semi-professional boxer , his mother a saleswoman. At the age of six, Jérôme began to train judo . He was considered talented, but an argument between his father and some judges during a competition caused him to quit the sport. At the age of fourteen, Jérôme was animated by a film with Bruce Lee to train different karate styles.

At eighteen, Le Banners began his career when he became French full contact heavyweight champion. He won the European ISKA championship against Stéphane Réveillon and then beat Mike Bernardo in Cape Town in the fight for the intercontinental title. In 1995, Le Banner was invited to take part in a major tournament in Japan at the K-1 . In addition to martial arts, Le Banner tries to establish himself as an actor. He and his partner have a daughter named Victoria.

1995-2000

Jérome Le Banners K-1 debut took place successfully on March 3, 1995 against Nokueed Devy, whom he could defeat unanimously on points in the K-1 World Grand Prix Opening. The next two fights took place in the K-1 World Grand Prix final tournament on May 4, 1995, which Le Banner was able to win prematurely by knockout when he won the quarterfinals Masaaki Satake in the third and Mike Bernardo in the semifinals knocked out in the second round. In the K-1 final he could not make the third fight of the evening positive for himself because Peter Aerts knocked him out with a hard punch after just 97 seconds.

However, Le Banner had laid the foundation for a successful K-1 career. After the final defeat in 1995, the then 22-year-old Le Banner was able to celebrate his next knockout victory four months later when he knocked out John Kleijn in the second round, followed by his next and last fight of the year against Andy Hug on points to lose. In March 1996 Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic defeated him on points and he could not qualify again for the K-1 final tournament. However, he was able to win the next two fights prematurely when he sent Takeru on September 1 and today's K-1 legend and record holder Ernesto Hoost on the boards on October 18. In the K-1 Hercules tournament on December 8th there was the only draw in Le Banner's career to date, when no victory between Le Banner and Sam Greco could be determined even after five rounds.

The year 1997 began with a defeat: The New Zealander Ray Sefo was able to knock out Le Banner after only 91 seconds. Less than three months later, Le Banner met again in the K-1 Dreams tournament against Dutchman Peter Aerts, who knocked Le Banner out in his debut final in 1995 after just 97 seconds - this time Le Banner kicked the ground in the second round and couldn't keep fighting. He had his next important fight a month and a half later on September 7th against Rick Roufus, whom he knocked out in the third round and thus qualified for the final tournament in 1997, which he had missed the previous year. In the quarter-finals, however, was already the end of the line when Ernesto Hoost, whom Le Banner was able to defeat in 1996, knocked him out after just 75 seconds.

In 1998 and 1999 respectively, Le Banner was able to start with a winning streak of four knockout successes in a row: Combat Ziyo and Sam Greco in 1998, in which he only played these two K-1 fights, and in 1999 Matt Skelton and He could defeat Peter Aerts. The early knockout after only 71 seconds against Aerts was a kind of revenge for Le Banner, because Peter Aerts had already inflicted two very sensitive knockout defeats on him; the victory against Aerts also took place in the K-1 World Grand Prix quarter-finals, for which Le Banner was able to successfully qualify by defeating Skelton. In the semifinals, however, he was stopped again by Ernesto Hoost, who was able to defeat Le Banner with a knockout as in the previous year. That was Le Banner's last fight in 1999. In 2000, Le Banner played a total of five K-1 fights, all of which he was able to win; There were four knockouts for him this year: He scored the first two knockouts in the first round when he won against Francisco Filho on April 23 and against Jan “The Giant” Nortje on May 28. The last three wins then all took place in the World Grand Prix Nagoya tournament on July 30th, which Le Banner won. He first beat Mark Hunt on points in the quarterfinals, Nick Pettas in the semifinals and Ernesto Hoost in the finals were eliminated prematurely, which brought Le Banner the Nagoya title; it was the fourth meeting between Hoost and Le Banner.

2001-2005

The year 2001 began with a curiosity, because the fight on March 17th against Mike Bernardo could not be counted because the gong was completely lost in the cheering of the audience after the first round and Bernardo Le Banner had hit him after the regular fight time Punch went down. The fight was later declared invalid. After this fight, Le Banner won the K-1 tournament in Osaka : All three opponents were knocked out in round one on April 29th. First Pavel Majer, then Ebenezer Braga in the semifinals and finally Adam Watt after just 46 seconds. In the same year three other fights followed, of which Le Banner won two, namely on June 24th against the German-Croat Stefan "Der Blitz" Leko and on August 19th against Marc de Wit, the Le Banner in the second round knocked out. His last fight in 2001 he had in the quarterfinals of the K-1 final tournament against Mark Hunt, who knocked Le Banner out in the second round.

The year 2002 was a very strong one for Le Banner, who celebrated six victories in a row, including five more fights that did not go over the distance; three fights were decided in the first round in favor of Le Banners. This series broke again in the K-1 final tournament, for which he was able to qualify again: In the final, Le Banner met Ernesto Hoost again and Le Banner showed a very strong fight, but he had to in the third round due to a broken arm to give up. The arm was seriously injured by a kick from Hoost, but his kick complied with the rules and brought Hoost his fourth K-1 triumph, which makes him the record holder to date. Le Banner lost his second final and struggled with this injury for a long time. In the quarterfinals before he was able to defeat Musashi, and in the semifinals Mark Hunt; Musashi was knocked out in round two

Le Banner only made his comeback in the summer of 2003 when he was able to knock out Vitali Akhramenko on June 14th. His last fight of the year was on September 21st against Shaka Zulu, whom he also knocked out. Nevertheless, 2003 was probably the most unspectacular year of his career. Le Banner had his first fight in 2004 on July 17th. In any case, Le Banner only fought four fights in 2004, but this year he also made his MMA debut against the American Bob "The Beast" Sapp, whom he met in the Dynamite !! tournament on December 31; the four-round fight ended in a draw, but aroused a lot of media interest. Previously there were two knockout wins and one defeat against former boxer Francois Botha . In 2005 he was able to win all of his first three fights by a knockout, but this year ended with a disappointment in the K-1 final tournament, when Peter Aerts was able to defeat him unanimously on points in the quarter-finals after the extra round. His last fight that year Le Banner was able to make a successful knockout for himself; the first and last fight in 2005 were again MMA fights, which - unlike against Sapp - took place under Hero's rules.

2006-2010

Le Banner - now 33 years old - completed only four fights in 2006, the first of which again took place under Hero's rules and which he won after just 124 seconds. On May 13, 2006 there was another curiosity, this time the judges were involved: Le Banner filed a complaint against his point loss to Remy Bonjasky and the verdict was later actually turned in favor of Le Banners by the K-1 commission; Le Banner also won his second fight in 2006, albeit indirectly. The final elimination was again successful for him and so he was able to defeat the 2.16 meter tall Hong-man Choi after an extra round and points. In the final tournament, however, there was a point defeat in the quarterfinals, which he suffered against the Dutch series winner from 2005-2007 Semmy Schilt, who is also known as the "Hightower" because of his 2.12 meters.

In 2007, Le Banner again only fought four fights, he even lost his first to newcomer Sawayashiki. However, he was able to win the final elimination again: Yong-Soo Park was knocked out in the first round and Le Banner was back in the quarter-finals of the final tournament, which he won on December 8th against the giant Hong-man Choi, whom he played in Year earlier in the elimination on points. In the semifinals, however, the injury bad luck struck again, because his team threw in the towel in the second round, as a knee injury to Le Banner broke open again during the fight and he even went down and his own with a slight low-kick from his opponent Semmy Schilt Corner saw no point in continuing the fight.

In the following summer, Le Banner met Schilt for the third time, this time not in the final tournament, but in Fukuoka. However, he could not defeat the Dutch "Hightower" in the third attempt, as it again won unanimously on points. Le Banner's second fight in 2008 was already the elimination fight he was able to win against Sawayashiki on points. In the quarter-finals of the final tournament in 2008, however, a similar scenario played out against the Dutch fighter Bonjasky as in the previous year: Le Banner had to stop the fight in the third round - this time due to an arm injury that broke up again.

In 2008 he only completed three fights, in 2009 only three: he lost his first fight on March 28 against Ewerton Teixeira after an extra round and points, his second he won again on points when he won Musashi in the K-1 -Elimination and was able to qualify again for the final tournament.

The tournament took place on December 5th, 2009 and Le Banner had to fight the "Hightower" Schilt again, who defeated him in the fourth meeting - Semmy Schilt, who is 22 centimeters taller than Le Banner, got a kick in the first round , move into the semi-finals of the K1 World Grand Prix final tournament and then even won it for the fourth time in the last five years. The now 37-year-old Le Banner could not interrupt Schilt's K1 dominance.

On April 3, 2010, Le Banner was able to convince again after defeating the aspiring Tyrone Spong on points.

On October 2, 2010 Le Banner met the Japanese Kyotaro in the Finale Eliminations. After three tough rounds, the judges tied the fight and started an extra round. Le Banner was not satisfied with this verdict as he saw himself as the winner in this fight. Le Banner left the ring and lost the fight and could not qualify for the World Grand Prix 2010.

On December 31, 2010, Le Banner fought against Satoshi Ishii at Dynamite. The fight took place according to MMA rules. Le Banner lost the fight on points.

Match record

  • 58 K-1 fights; 39 wins (30 (T) KOs) are compared to 17 defeats (10 (T) KOs). A fight ended in a draw and one was not scored.
  • 4 MMA fights; 3 wins (3 (T) KOs) are matched by a draw.

Greatest successes

  • WKN Thai boxing champion
  • ISKA super heavyweight Thai boxing world champion
  • French & European kickboxing champion
  • K-1 World Grand Prix 1995 finalist
  • K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 in Nagoya Champion
  • K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 Osaka Champion
  • K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 in Osaka Champion
  • K-1 World Grand Prix 2002 finalist

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FieLDS K-1 WORLD GP 2007 IN SEOUL FINAL16 ( Memento from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Le Banner, Jérôme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French martial artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Havre