David Tarpey is a two-time WPKA World Heavyweight Kickboxing champion from Ireland. The Irish fighter was Irish National Kickboxing Champion six times, holding national WAKO, WPKA, and WKA titles. He competed internationally from 1998 until 2005, winning the amateur WPKA world championships in 2000 followed by winning the Professional WPKA World Heavyweight title later that year.
Tarpey began his training in 1991 in the Bushido Karate Gendi club in Leixlip Co.Kildare, under the guidance of multiple World Champion, Roy Baker. In the late 1990's Roy Baker reformed the kickboxing club into the Bushido Martial Arts system breaking away from the parent club,Bushido Karate Gendi which had been formed by the late Eddie Ince. It was in the late 90's and early part of the 2000's that Baker brought the club from its humble beginings and established it as one of the most prestigious and succesful sports martial arts systems in the world.
It was in these years that Tarpey went on to win numerous national and international tournaments. These included victories in the WUMA, ISKA and WSMA championships as well as final and semi final placement in the Irish Open, Best Fighter WAKO World Cup, British, Belgian and Austrian Open championships.
Various injuries in 2004 forced Tarpey into early retirement from Kickboxing. It was at this stage that he began Boxing. Competing in a number of amateur national and British isle tournaments with a fight record of 7-1 (7 ko's).
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