TAKERU SEGAWA

Biography

Takeru Segawa ( Japanese : 世川 武尊 , Hepburn : Segawa Takeru ) , known mononymously as Takeru , is a former Japanese kickboxer . He is the former ONE Interim Flyweight Kickboxing World Champion , K-1 Super Featherweight champion , K-1 Featherweight champion and K-1 Super Bantamweight champion . He is the only three weight champion in K-1 history. Takeru is considered by many to be a generational talent and one of the greatest kickboxers in the modern history of the sport, alongside his compatriot Tenshin Nasukawa . A professional competitor since 2008, Segawa became the K-1 Super Bantamweight champion when he defeated Taiga Kawabe in the finals of the 2015 K-1 Super Bantamweight Grand Prix, on April 19, 2015. He became the K-1 Featherweight champion when he defeated Kaito Ozawa in the finals of the 2016 K-1 Featherweight Grand Prix, on November 3, 2016, thus becoming the first two-weight champion in K-1 history. He further became the K-1 Super Featherweight champion after defeating Kosuke Komiyama in the finals of the 2018 K-1 Super Featherweight Grand Prix, on March 21, 2018, thus becoming the first and only three weight champion in K-1 history.