Thanks for that link I think it s great to be a Van Damme fan He s done a lot for the martial arts through his films and that s a worthy accomplishment This is the only competitive footage I ve ever seen for Vanvarenberg I hope you noticed that it was point fighting competition The reason Van Damme has many detractors is because he likes to claim that he won a world kickboxing title It began as part the PR campaign for Bloodsport and Kickboxer and he s just never dropped it So the genuine world kickboxing champions have good reason to call him on it I can tell you the Joe Lewis whon we regard as the father of modern kickboxing along with Bill Wallace and Don Wilson all condemn Van Damme for this bogus claim If Van Damme just told the truth they d show him due respect for his film accomplishments as well as for his amateur point fighting achievements As for his sport record Jean Claude was a very legitimate point fighter He fought on the WAKO semi contact Belgian team that won the team championship that year I m guessing this video comes from one of his 1979 team championship bouts in Florida The referee looks very much like promoter Mike Anderson So Van Damme was no slouch as a point fighter But it was point fighting not kickboxing The Teugels match was conducted inside a kickboxing ring but the rules were clearly semi contact In that era putting semi contact bouts inside a kickboxing ring for the preliminary undercard was not that unusual Promoters would fill out a pro card with a few amateur kickboxing and or semi contact matches either because they could not afford a total pro card or because there weren t enough qualified competitors available in the area I remember when PKA world champion Jean Yves Theriault s promoter Real Masse was finally able to offer an all pro fight card It became a featured story in the martial arts magazines because he was the first promoter to do it on a regular basis In the Teugels bout Teugels injured himself and quit Officially that s a forfeit due to injury My understanding is that Vanvarenberg and Teugels fought each other on several occasions But Teugels was the WAKO semi contact vice champion at the time of this match and on the European tournament circuit that meant something I doubt the Lenny Leickman match was full contact kickboxing Those same gloves were also sometimes used in Europe for semi contact competition I suspect the authentic outcome of this match was not a knockout clearly they are not fighting inside a padded ring but rather either a forfeit due to injury or a foul disqualification Sherman Bergman was not a pro and was not ranked as a STAR designated contender until many years after his 1979 encounter with Vanvarenberg I can not comment further on Michael J Heming STAR did not follow his career However I have emailed Gary Daniels about him I ll post his response here if he gets back to me Also I ll send your video link of Vanvarenberg s tournament footage to Mike Anderson for his verification that it came from the 1979 WAKO team championships