By the age of 35, he was the youngest person ever inducted into the World Karate Union Hall of Fame. Now with 30 years of martial arts training and 15 years of fitness instruction, Rivera has become a force to be reckoned with all over the world. Recently, he defeated the light heavyweight champions from both China and Brazil.
Rivera recently expanded his kickboxing success into the professional boxing ring and now holds an equally astounding boxing record of 15-3-2 (8 by KO) He currently holds the Latin American WBC Championship Boxing title, and the IBC America’s Title. Olando intends on being the first Latino to dominate the two sports holding world light heavyweight titles in both kickboxing and boxing.

Rivera has been motivating people outside the ring for years as a celebrity personal fitness trainer - training stars of the big screen, music and television. In New York, where the one-on-one Warrior Training concept originated, Rivera trained Another World's Tom Eplin and Sandra Ferguson. In addition, he’s trained Silver Screen Star Wesley Snipes, R&B sensation Calvin Richardson, and World Champion WCW's Evan Karagias, among many others. He is also a seasoned Kickboxing trainer having instructed over 5000 clients worldwide, kids and adults alike, from as far away as China, Canada and the United States.
Olando also tasted the big screen himself in numerous occasions. Co-starring in a season finale episode of Walker Texas Ranger entitled "Legends", Rivera starred as himself. The famous Chuck Norris, Joe Lewis and other legendary fighters accompanied his role. He also starred in and released a series of kickboxing-themed fitness workout tapes and infomercial in 1999 entitled "Kick Time". Because of his eloquence in front of audiences and on-screen, he has also been featured in many speaking roles on such shows as ESPN's Strike Force and Inside the Ring. Rivera has also been a featured celebrity trainer on The Home Shopping Network and Home Shopping en Espanol.

Every so often an athlete comes along who redefines the sport - taking it to an entirely new level. In basketball it's Michael Jordan, in Baseball it's Sammy Sosa, and in Kickboxing it's Olando Rivera.
Nicknamed "The Warrior", Rivera has dominated the world super-light heavyweight class. Today Olando "Warrior" Rivera is the five-time world champion super light heavyweight kickboxer holding titles in the ISKA (International Sports Karate Association), KICK (Karate International Council of Kickboxing), WWKA (Worldwide Karate Association), P.F.K. and WMMA. Rivera unified the division for the first time in kickboxing history.
His extensive professional kickboxing carrier hosts an impressive record of 32 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw. This record is even more impressive in the fact that two of the only three losses were his first two professional bouts - where, like a true champion, he fought back to maintain a virtually flawless record, winning 29 out of his 30 next fights, with 20 of these victories by knockout.
Olando Rivera began his kickboxing career at the tender age of 9 in Brooklyn, New York where he began training in Tae Kwon Do. However his early career was temporarily derailed when his family could no longer financially support his training. Undaunted, Rivera earned the money himself and at the age of 13 was training once again. Since then, "The Warrior" has never looked back on his way to the top of the kickboxing circuit - and now the boxing - world.

Rivera's unique training style and intense sport-training techniques have been featured on ESPN, ABC's Good Morning New York, on CNN with Another World's Tom Eplin, Madison Square Garden Network's Martial Arts World, Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly, NY Daily News, pay-per view channels, ABC and NBC news and countless others. Rivera's charisma on and off-screen have also been captured in the Latino market via Telemundo Network's Occurio Asi.
Olando Rivera is happily married to Deena Rivera and they reside in Tampa, Florida. Olando Rivera has four children: Victoria Rose age 15, Olando, Jr, age 14, Anthony Michael age 8 and Anjelina Josephine who is 2. The older kids are both skilled in martial arts and the sport of kickboxing. When he's not inside the ring, training clients or playing with his children, you can usually find Olando racing motorcycles and cars in what little "spare" time he can garnish. Another passion of Rivera's is his childhood love of gymnastics.
Rivera is not only the greatest kickboxer in the world, but also one of the most sought after instructors and motivators. He is truly the definition of superstar - in the ring and out.

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1. Is the youngest Kickboxer ever inducted into the Karate Hall Of Fame
2. Five Time World Kickboxing Champion
3. Kickboxing Record of 33-3-1 with 20 knockouts
4. First Kickboxer to Unify all World Kickboxing Titles
5. Represented a USA Team in Bejing, China and was the sole winner on the team.
6. Only Latino to cross over from World Champion status in Kickboxing to the Boxing Circuit
7. Ranked #3 by the WBC ( Latin America )
8. 5th Degree Black Belt in Japanese Shindo Ryu Karate
9. 5th Degree Black Belt in American Kickboxing
10. Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do
11. Creator of Kicktime Cardio Kickboxing Videos
12. Specialty Training - Boxing, Self Defense, Cardio, Body Conditioning & Weapons
13. Creator of Warrior Training - A Hybrid Style of Fitness / Martial Arts Workout
14. Trained along Tito Trinidad in Puerto Rico on several Occasions
15. Trained along with Jeff Lacy, Winky Wright in Tampa / St Pete and Las Vegas
16. Has a Celebrity Roster including-Wesley Snipes, Tom Eplin, Sandra Ferguson, Evan Karagias, Calvin Richardson and Kim Rhodes.
Television Appearances
~ ESPN
~ ESPN2
~ Service Electric Cable TV
~ Pay - Per - View
~ Telefutura
~ HSN and HSN Latino
~ Walker Texas Ranger
( Olando co-starred with Chuck Norris, as himself on the "Legends" episode )