He now runs a successful security company in Berlin, and regularly aids in police investigations.
In 2001 he worked with the Landeskriminalamt Berlin as part of the special unit "Besondere Aufbauorganisation (BAO) Türsteher", established to help combat organized crime.
[citation needed] Between 1990 and 1994 he was champion of the world associations WAKO-PRO, PKO, ISKA and IKBF.
Michael Kuhr and his security team have regularly appeared on television in news reports and documentaries, and have aided police in a number of high profile criminal investigations, including the 2010 armed robbery of the Hotel Grand Hyatt during the European Poker Tour.
[4] In 2012 German police intercepted intelligence that local organised crime figures had attempted to have Kuhr assassinated.