Amateur Career
As a young boy Piotrowski studied jujutsu before becoming interested in Kyokushin karate. In 1984 he won the Polish Juniors karate championship, following this up the next year by winning the Polish Senior championship. He became a karate black belt 1st dan in July 1993. His official karate record is 13 fights, with 13 victories.
At the beginning of 1987 Piotrowski began to focus on kickboxing, in particular full-contact, which was prohibited in Poland at the time. On 11 October 1987 he entered the 81 kg category of the 6th W.A.K.O. World Championships, a tournament for amateur kickboxers, held in Munich, Germany. Piotrowski won the competition defeating Hungarian Károly Halász in the final. Later that year he entered and won the Full Contact Kickboxing World Cup '87 in Budapest, Hungary and also won the Polish national kickboxing title. He had several more fights in 1988 in Poland and Europe, amassing a 17-0 amateur kickboxing record.
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