Tiffany van Soest

Tiffany van Soest is the most successful American woman in kickboxing and the clearest counter-example to the assumption that the United States scene never recovered from the above-the-waist era. She fights a full modern game — leg kicks, knees where the rules allow, and a comfort switching stance that keeps opponents guessing about which side the power is coming from.

Her style is unusually aggressive for the division, built on volume and forward pressure rather than the range control that many of her contemporaries prefer. Against the counter-fighters that suits her; against equally aggressive opponents her fights become genuinely hard to score.

She has competed under GLORY, Lion Fight and ONE rules, which between them span kickboxing and Muay Thai codes — a useful demonstration that the modern American pathway now produces fighters who can adapt across rulebooks rather than only within one.