Background
Karim Bennoui was born on 26 January 1988.
Karim Bennoui was born on 26 January 1988.
Bennoui resides in Lyon, France and trains at Gym boxing Street Fons in Lyon, Saint-Fons. His trainer is Nasser Kacem.He is of Algerian descent. He begins Muaythai at the age of 10, with Nasser Kacem who was educator in the suburbs of Lyon.
Early career lieutenant counts 38 fights for 30 wins (including 13 by knockout), 6 defeats and 2 draws.
Karim Bennoui fought in Muaythai and Kickboxing. He was scheduled to face Plynoi Por Paoin at Thai Fight: Lyon on 19 September 2012 in Lyon, France.
The fight was cancelled, however, when Plynoi suffered a knockout loss against Hiroki Ishii in Japan four days before. Bennoui was then expected to fight Koya Urabe at Krush.25 in Tokyo, Japan on 14 December 2012.
However, he was forced to pull out of the bout due to an injury to his right hand sustained in the Adamandopoulos fight and was replaced by Mickael Peynaud.
He lost to Masahiro Yamamoto via an extension round unanimous decision at Revista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali 92 on 17 March 2013 in Tokyo. He was set to fight Aranchai Kiatpatarapan at the WBC World Muay Thai Millennium Championship in Saint-Pierre, RĂ©union on 7 September 2013 but the event fell through.