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As a child, Hector suffered asthma and his father encouraged him to take martial arts to help him overcome his disease. So at the age of 4 he started taking lessons in Tai Chi Chuan and Chinese Boxing with the Chinese Shaolin Monk Grand Master Tung Kuo Tsao.
By the age of 6 he had been training Judo and Jiu Jitsu under Grand Master Mayamoto of Kodokan and by the age of 16 he had been learning Karate, Kung Fu and Tae Kwon Do and had grown to be a superb athlete, and became the youngest Kickboxer ever to enter the ring professionally.
Hector has now a 7th Dan in Karate Shury-ryu, a 5th Dan in Tae Kwon Do, a 7th Dan in Kempo Karate, a 2nd Dan in Judo and a 2nd Dan in Jiu Jitsu and remains undefeated in 11 World Kickboxing bouts.
By now he has some great stats, and is legendary in Argentinia:
2000 Inducted in the Hall of Fame
Full Contact Fighter of the Year
1989-2000 ISKA and WKA Vale Tudo Kickboxing Champion of the World
World Champion titles in the US Karate Association and the World Kung Fu Association
Many titles in Karate Kung Fu between 1981-87
Following the succes of his martial arts carreer Hector also became a popular actor in Argentinia and is now gaining fame in the US, with his newest movies.
Check his full resume by clicking here!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Duel of Legends (2007)
The Girls Next Door (2006)
Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Los Bravos (2001)
-aka The Falkland Man
-aka Final Assault
Kickboxing by Hector- Echavarria (2000) (instructional)
Extreme Force (2000)
-aka The Sacred Seal
-aka Extreme Dragon
Brigada (1992-97)
Exterminator 3 (1991)
Exetrminator 2 (1990)
Exterminator (1989)
-aka Los Extermineitors
Miami Vice (1987)
: Dax
: Himself (episode #2.15)
: Eddie Castillo
: Ultimate fighter
: Hector Riviera
: Instructor
: Marcos DeSantos
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: Batista (episode #3.12)
