Ciprian Sora

Ciprian Sora (born 23 October 1976) is a Romanian kickboxing trainer and founder of the Golden Glory Romania gym in Bucharest. As an athlete, he became the first ever Romanian to win a gold medal at the Muay Thai world championships in 1999 and still holds the record for that. Sora had an amateur record of 75–5, being undefeated in Romania throughout his career before turning professional. He signed with Local Kombat, the future SUPERKOMBAT, in 2004.

Career

Ciprian Sora took up kickboxing and Muay Thai at 14 under the tutelage of Dan Deliu. He began his amateur career in 1996 under the tutelage of shinan Mircea Boldea. Sora came to prominence in 1999 by taking a gold medal at the IAMTF World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand at −86 kg/189 lb, where his cousin Daniel Ghiță also fought and won the bronze medal in another weight category. Having amassed undefeated kickboxing and Muay Thai records in Romania from 1996 to 2003, he turned professional. In 2004 he signed with the largest Romanian kickboxing promotion Local Kombat.

In 2009, he founded the Golden Glory Romania kickboxing gym in Bucharest, Romania. Also present at the ceremony were Semmy Schilt, Dave Jonkers, Bas Boon, Andre Mannaart, Todd Medina and Eduard Irimia. Later were added Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) to the gym's repertoire.

Championships and accomplishments

Source:

Muaythai

• International Federation of Muaythai Amateur
  • 1999 IAMTF World Championships −86 kg/189 lb Gold Medalist

  • 1997 IAMTF World Championships Bronze Medalist

  • 1998 IAMTF European Championships Silver Medalist

  • 2000 IAMTF European Championships Bronze Medalist

Kickboxing

• International Kick Boxing Federation
  • 1997 IKBF World Cup Silver Medalist

  • 1998 IKBF European Championships Gold Medalist

• Local Kombat
  • 2007 Fighter of the Year
  • 2007 Most Technical Fighter of the Year

• World Kickboxing Network
  • 2007 WKN Romania Heavyweight Championship

Personal life

He has not got along with his cousin Daniel Ghiță since 2012 when he received Semmy Schilt at his academy to train for the Glory 4: Tokyo grand slam. Ghiță accused Sora of training Schilt for him, the two being in the same heavyweight pyramid and later even meeting in the final.

Sora holds a 3rd dan black belt in kickboxing.

Kickboxing record