Boxing champ Baxter Humby honored
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Baxter Humby
Baxter Humby, two-time World Kickboxing Champion known as "The One Armed Bandit" lost his right arm from the elbow downwards at birth in Winnipeg after becoming entangled with the umbilical cord. He is the only man in the world to win world titles with just one arm. Baxter is the current IMTC (International Muay Thai Council) World Super Welterweight Champion.
WINNIPEG, MB-On April 30, 2015 Baxter Humby received an award for his dedication to Combative Sports in Winnipeg at the professional boxing event, High Stakes Havoc.
Baxter Humby, two-time World Kickboxing Champion known as "The One Armed Bandit" lost his right arm from the elbow downwards at birth in Winnipeg after becoming entangled with the umbilical cord. He is the only man in the world to win world titles with just one arm.
Baxter is the current IMTC (International Muay Thai Council) World Super Welterweight Champion. He holds a number of title belts including WMC Intercontinental Super Welterweight Champion (2011, featured on ESPN Sportscenter top 10 Highlights with his first round knockout),WBC Super Welterweight National Champion (2010), IKKC USA Kickboxing Champion, IMTC World Middleweight Champion and IKBA International Kickboxing Champion.
In 2012, Humby was nominated for an ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete with a Disability, after he knocked-out Dominic Zedov in the first round, by a kick to the solar-plexes, sending Zedov clear across the ring.
Baxter Humby
Baxter Humby is not only a professional role model, he is a role model for fathers and their children. Here he is with his two young kids.
His interest in sports led him to take up running at age 11 and martial arts at 17. He ran for the Canadian National Track Team in Barcelona in 1992 and in Berlin in 1994.
Baxter won the Canadian Super Welterweight Kickboxing Championship in 1996, and in 1997, moved to California to pursue a professional kickboxing career. He currently trains with Muay Thai World Champion trainers, Master Tom Khamvongsa and David Huey, at the Muay Thai Academy in North Hollywood, California.
Baxter has been working as a stunt man in Hollywood since 1997 and has appeared in numerous movies including A Million Ways to Die in the West and Spiderman 3.
On April 30 during the High Stakes Havoc Professional Boxing event, Baxter Humby will be in attendance at the event and honored for his tremendous dedication to Combative Sports. Proud of his Aboriginal heritage, Baxter has shown his community that everything is possible.
