Nenad Pagonis (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Пагонис; born 28 July 1987) is a Serbian cruiserweight kickboxer as of 2013 fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Team Pagonis in Novi Sad, Serbia. In 2010 he became W.A.K.O. Pro world champion (K-1 rules). He won a number of world and European *les at amateur level.

Contents

• 1 Biography and career
• 2 *les
• 3 Boxing record
• 4 Kickboxing record
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Biography and career

Pagonis is of Greek paternal descent. In 2006, at the age of 19, he won a gold medal at the yearly Balkan Bames, and won gold at the W.A.K.O. European championships held in Macedonia. From 2007 to 2009 he won two world championships, two world cups and a further Balkans championship.

In 2010 Pagonis became professional, and won the W.A.K.O Pro world *le against reigning champion Antonio Sousa, winning by a third round stoppage victory in Milan Sousa was knocked down three times before the referee stopped the fight. Pagonis then joined Mike's Gym in the Netherlands where he trained with fighters including Badr Hari and Melvin Manhoef. Pagonis has now won a world *le 8 times (4 amateur *les, 4 professional *le) and has won 3 European *les. Pagonis also appeared on It's Showtime in Athens in 2010, where he defeated Rustemi Kreshnik by decision, allowing him to challenge the reigning It's Showtime 95MAX champion Danyo Ilunga the following year.

A planned fight on December 9, 2012 under the newly formed Serbian "Supreme Fighting Championship" organisation did not take place after Pagonis was injured.

He lost to Artem Vakhitov by unanimous decision on the Glory 12: New York undercard in New York City on November 23, but that decision was questionable.

Beside his professional boxing career, he is the founder and the lead vocalist of the Serbian rock band Black Pea* (due to legal issues, the band changed its name to Black Pea* from Jur*ic Rock, from his last name, which means pea* in Greek). Pagonis performs with the band manly covers of acclaimed songs by AC/DC, Deep Purple, Eagles and Judas Priest at various festivals around the Vojvodina region and Novi Sad, including the humanitarian Atina and Oktobar fest. Other than that, his music career includes the participation in the fourth season of the Serbian version of Your Face Sounds Familiar. In exact order, he imitated: Luis Fonsi (10th place), Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses (3rd place), Šaban Šaulić (3rd place), Jelena Karleuša (6th place), Marc Anthony (1st place), Harry Styles (8th place), Robbie Williams (8th place), Conchita Wurst (10th place), Lenny Kravitz (9th place), Đorđe Balašević (10th place) and Brian Johnson of AC/DC (2nd place). In the final, he claimed 8th place out of 10.

*les

Professional

• 2014 W.A.K.O. Pro World Low Kick Rules Heavyweight champion -88.61:kg
• 2013 W.A.K.O. Pro cruiser heavyweight world champion -94.1:kg (Low Kick Rules)
• 2012 Wins WAKO Pro World Grand Prix 2011 championship (As member of Serbian national team)
• 2012 W.K.B.F. K-1 Rules International Super heavyweight Championship +95:kg
• 2010 W.A.K.O. Pro heavyweight world champion -88.6:kg (K-1 Rules)

Amateur

• 2015 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia −91:kg (K-1 rules)
• 2014 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Bilbao, Spain −91:kg (Low-Kick rules)
• 2013 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Guaruja, Brasil −91:kg (Low-Kick rules)
• 2012 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Ankara, Turkey −91:kg (Low-Kick rules)
• 2011 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Skopje, Macedonia -91:kg (K-1 Rules)
• 2010 Serbia Open Cup Champion -86:kg (K-1 Rules)
• 2009 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Villach, Austria -86:kg (K-1 Rules)
• 2009 W.A.K.O. World Cup in Szeged, Hungary -86:kg (K-1 Rules)
• 2008 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Oporto, Portugal −86:kg (K-1 rules)
• 2008 W.A.K.O. Balkans Championships in Ohrid, Macedonia -86:kg (K-1 Rules)
• 2008 W.A.K.O. World Cup in Szeged, Hungary -86:kg (K-1 Rules)
• 2007 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia -81:kg (Low-Kick)
• 2007 W.A.K.O. World Cup in Szeged, Hungary -81:kg (Low-Kick)
• 2006 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Skopje, Macedonia -81:kg (Low-Kick)
• 2006 W.A.K.O. Balkans Championships in Burgas, Bulgaria -81:kg (Low-Kick)

Boxing record

Kickboxing record

See also

• List of It's Showtime events
• List of It's Showtime champions
• List of WAKO Amateur World Championships
• List of WAKO Amateur European Championships
• List of male kickboxers

References

External links

• Boxing record for Nenad Pagonis from BoxRec (registration required)
• Kick Boxing Šampion Nenad Pagonis - Official Website