Joseph John Valtellini was born on May 3,1985 and is a Canadian retired Muay Thai kickboxer who competed in the super middleweight division.
23 Facts About Joseph Valtellini
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Joseph Valtellini debuted with the Glory promotion in April 2013 and went on to win the Glory Welterweight Championship in June 2014.
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Joseph Valtellini retired the following year due to post-concussion syndrome and now works as a commentator for the promotion.
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An Italian Canadian, Joseph Valtellini was born in Scarborough, Ontario, to parents who emigrated from Pachino, Sicily.
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Joseph Valtellini began training in Taekwondo under Roy Sullivan at the Ki Do Kwan gym aged seven and earned his black belt at ten.
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Joseph Valtellini was promoted to the rank of second degree black belt at the age of fourteen, but around the age of seventeen he began looking for more "contact and realism" in martial arts and started training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
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Joseph Valtellini trained both styles for couple of years until he dropped jiu-jitsu after he decided to become a full-time striker.
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Joseph Valtellini played association football competitively between the ages of ten and eighteen and unsuccessfully tried out for the Toronto Varsity Blues soccer team while attending the University of Toronto, although he did make it on to the Toronto Varsity Blues Canadian football team where he played for five years, serving as the placekicker and finishing two seasons as the team's leading scorer.
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Joseph Valtellini suffered a broken radius in his left arm while playing Canadian football, requiring surgery and prompting doctors to recommend never fighting again.
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Joseph Valtellini first came to prominence when he won the Canadian Amateur Muay Thai Association of Ontario Amateur Ontario Super Middleweight Championship in 2008.
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Joseph Valtellini then won the Council of Amateur Sport Kickboxing Canadian amateur middleweight title in early 2010 before turning professional.
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Joseph Valtellini sent Yarborough to the canvas with a right hand but he was able to beat the count.
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Joseph Valtellini struggled with his French opponent's clinch and elbows, receiving a cut over his left eye in the first round.
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Joseph Valtellini rebounded with a unanimous points victory over Mehdi Baghdad at Muay Thai in America: In Honor of the King in Los Angeles, California, on December 1,2012.
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Joseph Valtellini made his promotional debut against Murat Direkci at Glory 6: Istanbul in Istanbul, Turkey on April 6,2013, and overcame the Belgian-Turk's aggressive start by scoring a knockdown late in the opening round.
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Joseph Valtellini returned to New York to face Francois Ambang at Glory 9: New York on June 22,2013.
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In round three, it became evident that Ambang's lead leg was injured and Joseph Valtellini went on the attack to score a knockdown with low kicks.
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Joseph Valtellini then swarmed on the Frenchman, landing a high kick which caused a TKO victory.
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Joseph Valtellini beat Marc de Bonte via unanimous decision to take his Glory Welterweight Championship at Glory 17: Los Angeles in Inglewood, California, US on June 21,2014.
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Joseph Valtellini re-signed with the company on a multiple-year deal in February 2017.
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Joseph Valtellini has co-hosted the GLORY Kickboxing Podcast, which debuted in November 2016, with Todd Grisham.
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Joseph Valtellini was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience in January 2017.
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Joseph Valtellini appeared in a minor role in the 2016 film Kickboxer: Vengeance.