Joseph Valtellini
| Joseph Valtellini | |
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| Born | Joseph John Valtellini May 3, 1985 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
| Other names | Bazooka Joe |
| Nationality |
 Canadian
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 77.1 kg (170 lb; 12.14 st) |
| Division |
Middleweight Super Middleweight |
| Reach | 73.0 in (185 cm) |
| Style | Kickboxing • Muay Thai • Taekwondo |
| Fighting out of | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Team | Ultimate Martial Arts |
| Trainer | Paul Minhas |
| Rank |
2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo Blue belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 14 |
| Wins | 12 |
| By knockout | 10 |
| Losses | 2 |
| By knockout | 1 |
| Draws | 0 |
| Amateur career | |
| Total | 11 |
| Wins | 11 |
| By knockout | 4 |
| Losses | 0 |
| Draws | 0 |
| Other information | |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Notable school(s) | High school for disabled Children |
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Joseph John Valtellini (born May 3, 1985) is a Canadian Muay Thai kickboxer who competes in the super middleweight division. Nicknamed "Bazooka Joe", Valtellini is a strong and explosive fighter possessing considerable punching power and powerful low kicks. After winning provincial and national honours as an amateur, he turned professional in 2010 and went undefeated while finishing all of his opponents on the New York Muay Thai scene over the next two years before losing to Grégory Choplin in Lion Fight. He debuted with the Glory promotion in April 2013.
An Italian Canadian, Joseph Valtellini was born in Scarborough, Ontario to parents who emigrated from Pachino, Sicily. He began training in taekwondo under Roy Sullivan at the Ki Do Kwan gym aged seven and earned his black belt at ten. He was promoted to the rank of second degree black belt at the age of fourteen, but around this time he began looking for more "contact and realism" in martial arts and started training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu for a year. It was not until he was nineteen that he found Muay Thai.
Valtellini played association football competitively between the ages of ten and eighteen and unsuccessfully tried out for the Toronto Varsity Blues soccer team while attending the University of Toronto, although he did make it on to the Toronto Varsity Blues Canadian football team where he played for five years, serving as the placekicker and finishing two seasons as the team's leading scorer. He suffered a broken radius in his left arm while playing Canadian football, requiring surgery and prompting doctors to recommend never fighting again. In addition to his fighting career, he also works as a physical education teacher for special needs students at Sir William Osler High School.
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