Petr Monster Knize: MMA veteran who has fought with limited leg movement for most of his career

Petr Kníže is a true MMA veteran. Despite the fact that he is already 44 years old, he is still an active fighter, as he confirmed in his last match under the Oktagon banner. Who is his only opponent and why does he have a partially immobile leg?

Petr Kníže is a former judoka, he even won the Czech Republic championship in singles. Later, however, he took up MMA, which has not let him go.

However, he doesn’t have many fights in professional MMA, more precisely he has 13 according to the renowned website Sherdog, but this number should be taken with a grain of salt.

The Prince has been fighting for three decades, during which time he has fought more than 500 fights in Vale-tudo according to the IAF website.

In professional MMA, he has only one defeat out of the aforementioned 13 fights. With whom? Well, with Karlos Vemola, whom he wanted to teach the right behavior.

“The thing was that until then Karlos had done nothing on the Czech scene. He didn’t train here, nobody even knew him, he was just a stranger. Suddenly he came here and started saying how much it sucks here.

I told him that we’ve been doing ultimate fighting here for 20 years. At that time he didn’t know anything about it and was just lifting weights. Plus, if you watched his fights, he’d always run up, throw his opponent to the ground, and beat him like a deaf man in a door. No technique,” said Kníže in an interview with iSport.

The fight took place back in 2013, since then Kníže has managed 9 fights. And all of them with a very limiting injury.

His right leg is very limited and he cannot straighten it completely. Because of this, he can appear to limp when walking. What happened back in 2001?

“I fell from a height of eight metres and had an open fracture in my knee. The bone came out and I had several operations. In addition, I was taken to an old hospital at the time, where apparently a golden streptococcus got into it, so I had severe inflammation,” he said.

But the prince hasn’t given up and is now close to a title fight. But he still has to fight if he wants to take on welterweight champion David Kozma, whom he has beaten in the past.

Source:: Sherdog, iSport, IAF