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The early years Prince Hamid started his martial arts career as a boxer at the age of 9, when he would run to the soccer stadium in Rabat, so he could learn how to punch the pads at the boxing classes. When Hamid was 13, he discovered Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art. The discipline, flexibility, and coordination he developed in Tae Kwon Do gave him the base skills that helped him to build his successful and exciting Muay Thai career – including his spinning back kick, and the ability to move about the ring on his toes, with speed and agility, as if in a deadly dance, exhausting his opponents. When his gym introduced kickboxing classes, Hamid quickly signed up for this new innovation, and he never looked back. At 21, he left his family, and his home in Rabat to fly across the world to begin training and fighting in Bangkok, Thailand. Training in Thailand Every morning, he would wake up at 5.30am, and by 6am, he would be leaving the gym with his cohort of fighters for a 10k run around the streets of Bangkok. By 7.30am, they would start training with their Thai trainers, doing pads and bag work, and finishing with grappling, sparring, and core work. The daily training focused on improving their technique, and, as Muay Thai fighters, on increasing and building powerful kicks. The passion of the camp atmosphere took Hamid’s already hard and fast kicking skills to the next level of lethal power. Within two weeks of starting his training, Hamid had his first fight – 3 rounds, 2 minutes. He stopped his opponent with a spinning back kick to the head in the first round. Becoming the Moroccan Whirlwind After training in Thailand for three months, Prince Hamid came to New Zealand for the WKBF title fight in Auckland. He won the WKBF belt on points. Hamid’s first professional fight was in Melbourne, Australia in 2004, at a show run by Kelly Seif. He had agreed to the fight without even knowing who he would be fighting. He found out on the plane to Melbourne that he would be fighting a two-time world champ. He may have lost the fight, but it was the start of his professional career, and he never looked back. From then on, he fought professionally all over the world in A1, K1, S1, King Cup, King of the Ring, Judgement Day, Last Man Standing, and Superleague. Hamid’s career included 88 professional Muay Thai and kickboxing fights, and 13 pro boxing fights.