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Interview of LUCIA RIJKER by Serge TREFEU (2012)
Serge TREFEU: Hello and thank you for having me grant this interview, you began very early the combat sports, at first by the judo and then with the fencing, in 15 years you begin the kickboxing, how you discovered this new sport, the kickboxing?
LUCIA RIJKER: I started after my older brother Harold dragged me to the gym after he came home and practiced his new moves on me!
You liked at once this sport?
I loved all sports and honestly I was so tired after the first kickboxing training that I considered not going back!
The techniques of trainings at the beginning of you combat career, it was only low kick and fists, style Kickboxing or there were also the knocks of knees, the seizures, the clinch, the style Muay Thai?
It included all the above!
How it are crossed the first serious trainings what is that you were the only girl in the gym? ( Lucia does not want to speak about his first trainer in Kickboxing)
I was Freddie Roach (trainer Boxing) only female fighter and Joe Goossen (Trainer Boxing) the same, I think I had to earn my place with the boys!
What champions there was in the time in the gym of Kick Boxing?
Moused, Sprang,
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5'6" junior welterweight Lucia "Rijker-Striker" Rijker of Holland, now living in Los Angeles, California, may be the world's most dangerous female fighter on a pound-for-pound basis. She has been referred to as �The Most Dangerous Woman in the World,� and �Queen of Lightning�.
Born in Amsterdam on December 7, 1967, Rijker began training in judo at the age of six.
At seven, she became a member of the Dutch National Softball Team. At thirteen, she took up fencing and won the Amsterdam championship, going on to become the Netherlands' junior champion.
Claressa Shields hugs Lucia Rijker right after Rijker was inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in July of 2014. Shields also came up to the podium and spoke to the audience at the IWBHF Event.
Photo Credit: Dalia Duran
Rijker began kickboxing at age 15, studying in the gym of Johan Vas, one of the most respected training facilities in Holland and training She burst into prominence in the kickboxing world in her sixth match on January 15, 1984 ... disabling veteran American champion Lilly Rodriguez (sister of then world champion k