Boxing. Alan Kermorvan, from Le Banner to Chuck Norris
From Landerneau to the roof of “his” world. At years old, Alan Kermorvan won the “grail” by receiving, from the hands of his peers, “the ultimate distinction”, last January in Munich. Inducted into the “hall of fame” of the International Sport Kickboxing Association ISKA, he is the first Frenchman and the first non-combatant to receive such an honor.
“I find myself alongside people like Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee, inducted before me for having also worked for the image of our sport, and before Jérôme Le Banner, one of the greatest kick-boxers of all. the times, which I can’t help but find funny,” says Alan Kermorvan with a big laugh. “I’ve given so much to boxing…” To enter the Kickboxing Hall of Fame, you have to be out of business.
Le Banner having only officially retired since last fall, he will not be inducted by ISKA, the equivalent of the WBC or the IBF in English boxing, until the end of the year, at the same time as Ernesto Hoost, another “legend” of the discipline.
From last fall, the date of the official retirement of Jérôme Le Banner, Alan Kermorvan on the right of the image closely followed the career of “one of the biggest names in foot-fist sports”. Collection Alan Kermorvan President of ISKA France since , Alan Kermorvan has just handed over, keeping the honorary titles of honorary president of the French federation, and vice-president of ISKA Europe and World.
“This award came at the right time. It corresponded with my desire to take a step back. I gave so much to boxing…”, explains the Landernéen, also a physiotherapist and head of the firm he founded, in Cayenne in Guyana, where he lives, in .
“Kickboxing is of course not football or basketball, but it is a sport practiced everywhere on earth. I am proud to have become a recognized actor in the milieu that fascinated me” A “recognized” actor Remains the trajectory taken.
From the city of the moon, where he started boxing at the age of years because he “wanted to learn how to fight”, Alan Kermorvan became a promoter of Explosion Fight Night parties, in particular, then one of the most important agents in the world more fights placed, before juggling his leadership cap.
As federation president, he organized more European and world titles, an absolute record. Mario Balotelli photo, but also Alain Delon, Mathieu Kassovitz or Clovis Cornillac: Alan Kermorvan has rubbed shoulders with many celebrities who love foot-fist sports.
Alan Kermorvan collection “I’ve always had my nose to the grindstone, it’s only now that I’m measuring how far I’ve come,” said the person concerned, before adding: “kick-boxing is of course not football or basketball but it is a sport practiced everywhere on earth.
I am proud to have become a recognized actor in the milieu that fascinated me”. “It all started with one sentence…” Boxer “average, correct but nothing more” victories, defeats as an amateur then semi-pro, Alan Kermorvan first rubbed shoulders with another Landernéen, Éric Perros, five-time world champion , of which he was the “sparring” shortly after his discovery of the “kick” at the Cercle Charlemont. An “important” meeting followed by another, even more decisive.
In , young physiotherapist, he is only an active member on an MMA forum when he starts writing specialized articles. In the intimacy of Jérôme Le Banner, who has become “a brother”. Le TélégrammeCollection Alan Kermorvan “One of my papers caused quite a stir in the community.
From there, thanks to my little notoriety, I was able to get in touch with Le Banner, whom I met for an interview and to whom I offered to take part in an internship that I wanted to organize”. We are then in , and although aged, Le Banner is “still a huge star”. “He replied that it bothered him, that he preferred that I find sponsors for him.
It all started with this sentence: in two weeks, I had found more for him than he had had in his entire career…”. Japan, Delon and big gnons If he had “no desire to become one”, this meeting “also conditioned his career as a manager”.
Because in the process, he founded KA’S management, a structure which will bring together specialists in foot-fist sports, including Karim Ghajji, once world champion. “At one time, every three days, I had a fighter placed somewhere in Europe, but also in Japan and Asia”.
Here alongside Floyd Mayweather. Le TélégrammeCollection Alan Kermorvan In the land of the rising sun, in the wake of Le Banner, the “little guy from Landerneau” finds himself “signing autographs”. “You have to realize: in cumulative audiences, in Japan, Jérôme is more than a billion viewers”, resituates the one who, alongside “Geronimo”, toasted with Alain Delon, rubbed shoulders with Mathieu Kassovitz or Joey Starr, crossed paths with Orelsan and Mario Balotelli, spent time with Eric and Ramzy, and sympathized with Clovis Cornillac or Franck Leboeuf.
A story of sports and friendship which will have earned him, also, to be attacked, “from behind” on the sidelines of a Parisian evening, “by a jealous boxer”. “It’s an environment full of crazy people, full of egos and hormones.
It was fine with me but now I have calmed down,” he continues. Before concluding: “It’s a very beautiful sport but the environment is often not very beautiful. For me, it’s been my whole life, but at my age, it doesn’t really interest me anymore.
The laurels will remain. References: Birth in Landerneau: Discovery of boxing then kick-boxing alongside Éric Perros. : Meeting with Jérôme Le Banner. : Creation of KA’S Management – : President of ISKA France All the news about boxing A story of sports and friendship which will have earned him, also, to be attacked, “from behind” on the sidelines of a Parisian evening, “by a jealous boxer”. “It’s an environment full of crazy people, full of egos and hormones.
It was fine with me but now I have calmed down,” he continues. Before concluding: “It’s a very beautiful sport but the environment is often not very beautiful. For me, it’s been my whole life, but at my age, it doesn’t really interest me anymore. The laurels will remain.
References: Birth in Landerneau: Discovery of boxing then kick-boxing alongside Éric Perros. : Meeting with Jérôme Le Banner. : Creation of KA’S Management – : President of ISKA France All the news about boxing A story of sports and friendship which will have earned him, also, to be attacked, “from behind” on the sidelines of a Parisian evening, “by a jealous boxer”. “It’s an environment full of crazy people, full of egos and hormones. It was fine with me but now I have calmed down,” he continues.
Before concluding: “It’s a very beautiful sport but the environment is often not very beautiful. For me, it’s been my whole life, but at my age, it doesn’t really interest me anymore.
It was fine with me but now I have calmed down,” he continues. Before concluding: “It’s a very beautiful sport but the environment is often not very beautiful. For me, it’s been my whole life, but at my age, it doesn’t really interest me anymore. The laurels will remain.
It was fine with me but now I have calmed down,” he continues. Before concluding: “It’s a very beautiful sport but the environment is often not very beautiful.
For me, it’s been my whole life, but at my age, it doesn’t really interest me anymore. The laurels will remain.
