Andy hug and the 10th anniversary of his death

Andreas Hug was born on September 7, 1964 in Zurich, Switzerland. Andy's father, Arthur, was a foreign legionnaire, who died in Thailand without ever seeing his son. He seldom saw his mother Madelaine Hug-Baumann, and together with his brother Charly and sister Fabienne, they grew up with his grandparents in Wohlen. He was six, when he started playing soccer and was also selected to the Swiss National Under-16 team.[citation needed] At eleven, he started practising karate at Wholen Karate school under Werner Schenker.
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Karate career

s in 1981 at the Dutch Kyokushinkai Karate Championships. Two years later, he took first place at the European Cup in Hungary. In 1983, Andy took part in the Karate World Championships. Around eighty fighters from all over the world were at the start of the open weight class. Andy was able to battle his way through and reached the final sixteen. He made his second World Championships in 1987. In the semi-finals, Andy defeated his opponent Akira Masuda and for the first time in the history of Kyokushinkai, a non-Japanese fighter, was taking part in the finals. Andy lost the fight by a controversial point decision to Shokei Matsui.

The fifth World Championships of full-contact karate no weight division took place in 1991 at the Budokan, Tokyo, Japan. As early as 1988, Andy had become a trainer for the Swiss national team, thus offering his knowledge and experience to other competitors. In his third fight, Andy came up against Francisco Filho. At the end of the round, as the bell rang, Filho landed a high kick on the side of Hug's head and knocked Andy to the floor. Mas Oyama confirmed that the technique was legal. It was later confirmed that Filho's kick had indeed struck after the bell rang, but he had started his move before the time was up and Filho was declared the winner.

Andy kept fighting in Japan with success and became extremely popular. The fans were impressed by his technical diversity, spectacular aesthetics, tactics and strength. On August 28, 1993 Andy married Ilona in Inwil. At the same time he changed from Kyokushinkai to Seidokai karate, completing the step from being an amateur to becoming a professional fighter and star in Japan.
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K-1 career


Later that year Hug competed in his first WGP tournament, where he was favored by the Japanese fans having already defeated Branco Cikatic a few months earlier. But Andy was upset by American kick-boxer Patrick Smith via first round stoppage.

In the autumn of 1996, Andy was struggling within himself that he wasn't able to win the K-1 World Grand Prix. In his second fight at the 96 WGP Finals he met Ernesto Hoost and won by decision. In the final, Andy was matched up against Mike Bernardo. After his two defeats to Bernardo in 1995 Andy was determined to beat him and was ultimately successful, winning via spinning low kick, securing his first and only WGP title.

Andy Hug reached the K-1 Grand Prix finals again in 1997, where he lost to Dutch kick-boxing legend Ernesto Hoost by decision. He made it to the 1998 WGP final as well, where he lost to Peter Aerts by KO, although he became the first fighter to ever make three consecutive WGP finals. (until matched by Semmy Schilt some years later)

1999 was the most successful year for K-1 since its inception. Record numbers of spectators were recorded for all tournaments. In the first half of that year, Andy provided his fans with sensational fights. However at the World Grand Prix, fate wrecked his plans. In the second bout, he was up against Ernesto Hoost. As early as in the first round, the groin injury that he had sustained a month earlier became acute. This handicap was so severe that he could not employ his legs as he was used to doing, and dropped a decision.

In Japan he was given the name "Blue-Eyed Samurai", even though he had brown eyes. He was the only K-1 fighter ever to be rewarded an honorary samurai title by K-1 founder Kazuyoshi Ishii[citation needed].

Andy was also recognized for his axe kick and the spinning low heel kick, targeting the opponents thigh, was another trademark kick of his. In Japan, it was known as "the Hug Tornado" since it was rumored that no other fighter could perform it with the same perfection as Hug.

Andy defeated Mirko "Cro-Cop" Filipović at K-1 Fight Night, on June 3, 2000, in Zurich, Switzerland. His last fight was against Nobu Hayashi on July 7, 2000. Andy Hug died in August 24, 2000 as a result of leukemia a few weeks short of his 36th birthday. Andy's body was cremated and his ashes deposited in the cemetery of the Hoshuin temple in Kyoto, Japan.[3]

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[mamutko94]

name of the 1 song is  Switchfoot - Meant To Live

[mamutko94]

Andy was the best of the best blue-eyed samurai .. .. for more idol .. you were just a man with a good heart .. : (RIP froom Slovakia... thank you Andy

[Questionmarksign]

Great video his warrior spirit will never die...peace

[NKTpajhuam]

what cause him death? he is still too young to leave! He is a very intertain fighter, never boring to watch his fight. RIP.

[WoGz86]

The most complete stand fighter i have ever seen My his spirit R.I.P a legend

[bloodline262626]

thanks for this video. fighting against my tears right now...

[majkrofon]

@mamutko94

RIP from Slovakia again

Heros never Die, 4ever in our Hearts

dom arigato

[Leon4257]

I think whole K-1 miss fighters like Andy now at present. Andy was warrior with heart and soul.

Mamutko94 vdaka za video...a v takej dobrej kvalite...nesledoval som vtedy bojove sporty, takze vdaka za taketo spomienkove videa...

[Resu78]

RIP Andy

[MegaBobDenard]

Great respect to the ultimate warrior. Thanks for all you did

[Youness33530]

I didn't know Andy Hug until this last two weeks , and now , i know that there are some people who diserv all the respect on this earth ...

[yank4050]

Andy Du warst der Beste....schade um Dich...

[noavaro]

best .....