Artem Pashporin

Artem Pashporin (born 26 January 1993, Bogorodsk, Russia – Russian professional welterweight Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer.

Following the trainer, Maxim Vinogradov, who participated in Muay Thai competitions, turned to this kind of martial arts, which soon became his speciality.

At the end of the year in Vienna in fights with Cosmo Alexandre(Brazil) and Chris Ngimbi (Congo) Artem won the W5 world title.

In 2017 he have lost the title of W5 world champion in the fight with kickboxing legend Giorgio Petrosyan, losing to him on points in a five-round bout.

In 2018, Artem started with a knockout win in the second round over Magnus Andersson (Sweden) at the Battle of Champions-10 tournament, where he represented Russia in the muay thai block.

On the eighth of July at the arena of the RCC Academy in Yekaterinburg in the framework of the Fair Fight IX tournament, Artem Pashporin managed to win by the results of three rounds over Yodwicha Banchamek by a unanimous decision of the judges, however, later the organizers of the tournament decided to cancel the result of this fight because of public criticism.

In the first fight, the Russian won over Song Shaoqiu from China, and in the final lost by a split decision to the representative of Belarus Dzianis Zuev.

In August, he received an invitation from Senshi to go to the international Kyokushin World Union training camp along with kickboxing legends Peter Aerts, Semmy Schilt and Ernesto Hoost.