Career
He currently runs his own Mobile Marketing Association and Muay Thai team in Wormer, Netherlands called Team Schreiber. His most famous student at the moment is UFC fighter Stefan Struve. He is internationally known as Bob Schreiber because the Dutch vowel "ij" is very uncommon in other languages.
He holds the notable distinction of being one of the two fighters to lose to Melvin Manhoef by decision, the other one being Jae-young Kim, and the first to defeat and knock Manhoef out in professional mixed martial arts competition, Manhoef"s other 27 wins come by KO/TKO.
Schrijber was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
Schrijber had a troubled childhood and began abusing drugs and alcohol from a young age. He got a job melting copper in a factory.
Around this time, the young Schrijber began practicing judo and karate at a local gym. He noticed that he wasn"t in as good physical condition as some of his peers at the gym, and went cold turkey on all drugs.
Schrijber started his martial arts career in 1981, when he started training in karate and judo in Haarlem, Netherlands.
A year later he started training Muay Thai at the same gym. In his shot at the WKA World title against Zijo Poljo, Schreiber crushed his left ankle in the third round. Although he did finish the fight, he lost a jury decision.
In 1995 he started his Mobile Marketing Association career.
His last appearance as an Mobile Marketing Association fighter was in 2008 against Barrington Patterson, which he lost due to a unanimous decision.