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Post by karaevfan on Feb 25, 2017 8:23:46 GMT 1
Rukiya is massive for this weight class. Weird karate kicks and heavy hands too.
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Post by karaevfan on Feb 25, 2017 8:19:52 GMT 1
HI all. Sorry to be out, been traveling due to work.
Reserve fights starting now!
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 13, 2016 10:31:48 GMT 1
Some card announcements - QF1 (Card change): Ren Hiramoto vs Brice Delval - Tournament Reserve fight: Mizumachi Hiroshi vs Rukiya - Superfight: Noiri Masaaki vs Younes Smaili - Superfight: Hinata vs Matsukura Shintaro - Thomas Adamandopoulos has apparently fallen out of contact with his management team and Brice Delval - Matsukura apparently called Hinata out immediately after his return to K-1 was announced and said that he has pride as a fighter who's been fighting for Krush/K-1 and will chase Hinata out of K-1. Hinata says that Matsukura is 3 years too young to challenge him. He reiterates that he plans on winning the K-1 belt this year and one day fighting for K-1 in the Tokyo Dome
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 11, 2016 6:52:43 GMT 1
Straight rematch Rico vs Hari. Although i see this as a legitimate KO win for Rico, i still want to see a direct rematch. Was an unexpected tactic but Badr was winning the long game. Then Rico lands a knee on Badr's elbow and it's all over. Legit win imo but still, i'd like to see a rematch. And i doubt Hari is interested in fighting anyone else. Unless someone else rises to be the new champion, he won't want to fight anyone else other than Rico. While I'd love to see Rico vs Hari II, didn't Londt earn a title shot from winning a contender tournament? I know that he just lost to Ben Saddik, but apparently they're still giving Hameur-Lain the title shot after getting KTFO'd by Zhuravlev so I would assume the same logic applies here
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 11, 2016 6:50:51 GMT 1
Man, Watson got pummeled there! The king has returned. Haven't seen Petro that aggressive since he broke Yuya Yamamoto's jaw.
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 11, 2016 2:12:17 GMT 1
Do I get credit for saying Rico would KO Badr? Technically?
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 8, 2016 2:16:16 GMT 1
Nothing much lamer than the typical athlete posting inspirational quotes on social media though. I pretty much cringe every time I see Saki post some pain is temporary, hard work whatevery. This! It makes me like him less every time I see one of his 'deep thoughts' pop up. Edit: I blame you for this Shadess.. All due respect to the Gohkan, but I like apples and I've never eaten a "bad" one. I think that's how sugar works.
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 7, 2016 10:19:12 GMT 1
You are way over exaggerating there mark. If it goes to a decision any logical person would choose Rico to win it. The reasons are simple: Rico has magnificent stamina, the best a HW has ever had in kb AND he has several 5 rounds matches fought. When's the last time Hari fought a 5 rounds fight, 12-13 years ago? Personally i think Hari will win in the first or second round by KO seeing how well 'fed' he is. But if he doesn't win in those 2 rounds, i will go as far as to say that Rico has a very good chance to win by TKO in the later rounds. p.s. i say Hari could win in 1st or 2nd but i don't rule out the chance of Rico catching him with a good counter and ending it. People keep under estimating Rico for some reason... I agree that Rico would probably win if it goes to decision in a 5 round fight. But this fight is 3 rounds. So I don't see how Rico could win the first two rounds. That's a logical assessment, but I think one thing you may be overlooking is Badr's chinniness. He has been known to be countered by bigger, slower guys before (I mean, he got dropped by HMC) and given the gap in their relative rustiness I have a feeling that Rico can drop Badr with a counter. Fair chance that Badr decapitates Rico in the first 90 seconds too of course.
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 7, 2016 5:26:18 GMT 1
Yeah, I was wondering if there were unaired prelims or something, because this is a VERY brief card. The production wasn't great, it looked dim and like those lower-end shows like NO KICK NO LIFE (well duh), REBELS and the such. That's okay, but Japanese fans have shown time and time again that the flash helps a lot. Hell, I'm all for KNOCK OUT right now and I wish they'd do things on a bigger scale. It is supposedly by design. The Bushiroad CEO has been quoted as saying that 6-7 fights is the maximum length a casual viewer would be able to pay attention as he drinks beer or something and it encourages the arena audience to come in and stay for the full event. Bold move. Sure those long K-1 events have pretty brutal pacing at times, but it also gives them the flexibility to pull off one night tournaments, Koshien, prelims and all those other fights that help them build up narrative for their top billed fights. If you're gonna be pulling off shorter events, you'd think you also want to be doing events fairly frequently and not every 2 months or so. As you said, the production values is almost entirely lifted from NO KICK NO LIFE. It might change with their next event as this was a relatively smaller pilot (Volume 0) in a smaller arena (2Kish vs. 3-4K for their next event). 2017 is when their TV deal starts kicking in as well though. Again, great start, but its still clearly experimental with a lot of stuff ported over from NO KICK NO LIFE. They need to start tailoring things for mass consumption. Their matchmaking is basically "We got a decent legit guy from Thailand, lets see if this Japanese guy can beat him". Building credibility in their talent is important, but you also want to be building up prospects and setting up narratives for the next event (which is what K-1 Japan does really well). Some of their aesthetic (e.g. their ringgirls, who were apparently all pinup girls) also gives the impression of sleazy underground Japanese KB.
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 7, 2016 5:07:26 GMT 1
I've known about Tenshin for all of 24 hours and Tenshin vs Takeru is already my most anticipated dream fight Its been my dream fight since 2015, second only to a round robin between Petro/Yod/Sittichai. Tenshin was really chasing that fight last year. Takeru won the K-1 55kg tournament and Tenshin won the BLADE 55kg tournament just a few months later. Tenshin then started to really call Takeru out. - Tenshin's crew booked front row tickets to three consecutive K-1 Japan shows just so that they could jeer at Takeru and demand that he fight Tenshin - RISE booked Hakim Hamech to fight Tenshin immediately after Takeru had a relatively tougher fight with him (K-1 immediately spiked the fight stating contract exclusivity so it didn't end up happening) - Tenshin showed up at the K-1 show when Takeru defended his belt and the two shook hands We were so sure it would happen for RIZIN 2015, but didn't pan out. And now it seems like Takeru is injured so won't happen for two years running Heck, UFC fighter Ishihara Teruto and Kizaemon Saiga named Takeru vs Tenshin the #1 fight they want to see and took to Twitter to bug the two and demand that they set a date lol.
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 7, 2016 4:50:40 GMT 1
www.k-1wg.com/19064Looks like Uehara is actually fighting Ibrahim El Bouni, which kinda makes more sense since at Enfusion El Boustati's fake record will remain protected until the inevitable happens and someone puts him to sleep. El Bouni is a dangerous opponent though. Maybe not as experienced as Uehara, but he's certainly racked up some impressive wins in the local circuit over the past two years or so. Good catch. Thanks for letting me know! A few other interesting tidpits came out this presser - Marat Grigorian has been stripped of his 70kg title. K-1 Japan claims to have offered him a title defense for every event they've had since 2015, but Grigorian coudn't make the schedule work (who can blame him, since he has so many fights lined up). While Grigorian said he wanted to defend the title in 2017, K-1 will be stripping him and holding a second tournament in 2017 - Hinata is coming to K-1 with the full support of his gym and the Rebels promotion. The Rebels head (Yamaguchi Genki) showed up at the presser to express his support, which is a big surprise as he was consistently the biggest opponent of Krush/K-1. Hinata is exclusive to K-1 for 2017 and he expressed his desire to fight five times for the promotion next year. He specifically named Dahlbeck and Pikeur as guys he wants to fight and also said he'd beat Kido any day of the week
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 6, 2016 10:50:19 GMT 1
Card additions - Uehara Makoto vs. Ibrahim El Bouni - Hinata vs TBA
Its a SHOCKER that Hinata managed to get up on K-1 Japan. His inability to fighter for them (and his resulting whining about it) has been a fixture for a while. I'm interested in seeing whether this means he cut ties with his gym or if it indicates a sort of detente between K-1/Krush and its competitors.
I hope its the latter. Takeru vs. Tenshin. Gotta happen.
EDIT: Fixed name from Boustati to El Bouni
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 6, 2016 0:50:15 GMT 1
I COMPLETELY forgot this was happening. Man that back kick KO was brutal. Also, I completely missed that elbows were allowed so I was pretty shocked when I saw the spinning back elbow knockdown during Otsuki vs Starboy. Good start for them, it helps when there are lots of KO's in a promotion called KNOCK OUT. If I was a salty coca it'd be time to make a sherdog thread on how Thais suck. Lose to Japanese kids in 1 round and Buakaw, Yod etc. rather fight kickboxing since it's clearly a superior sport. Oh crap, the fight wasn't in Thailand so it doesn't really count since they don't take any fights seriously when they're elsewhere :/ Damn. Haha some of those guys would retire from the internet. Some of the elbows in there were pretty brutal. Credit to Miyamoto for getting up after Ogasawara made half his face explode with one. It is a trial to stay classy on sherdog. Overall the show was super exciting though some questions remain for them in the long term. Pros - Lots of exciting KOs - Ruleset allowing for full clinch and elbows did not slow down action at all - They were able to announce a roadmap for their next few events - They got a full crowd despite not paying their fighters with tickets (that's a real gamechanger for Japanese fight sports) Cons - Overall lower production values compared to even the modest K-1 Japan - Few fights per card (just 6 on this one with no prelim fights). Raises questions about whether they have the capacity to put on tournaments/build up new stars - There's something slimey about the way they use their ring girls (I can't quit put my finger on it)
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Post by karaevfan on Dec 5, 2016 17:00:48 GMT 1
Guys, i'm not sure what went on, but this one just happened and I think some sort of witchcraft was involved 6 fights. 5 KOs. There were a lot of doubt about KNOCK OUT going into this, but with this one event they've managed to prove their worth as a real opposition force vs. K-1 Japan.
Otsuki vs Starboy
Miyamoto vs Ogasawara
Morii vs Yodwandee
Nagashima vs T-98
Tenshin vs Wanchalong
Spoilers
I think the key takeaway is that Takeru vs. Tenshin needs to happen and it needs to happen today. Seriously. Tenshin is an 18 year old that just KO'd the reigning Lumpinee champ in the first round in his muay thai debut and is on a 16 fight win streak. Takeru is on a 25 fight win streak or something and he just won his 2nd K-1 belt. Gotta happen.
Results
Otsuki Haruaki defeats StarBoy KwaythongGym via KO 1R 0:45 (Right Hook) Ogasawara Eisaku defeats Miyamoto Keisaku via KO 3R 2:53 (Left High Kick) Morii Yosuke defeats Yodwandee Nitasamui via KO 3R 1:54 (Right Elbow) T-98 defeats Nagashima Jienotsu Yuichiro via KO 2R 2:50 (Right Straight) Nagashima Tenshin defeats Wanchalong PK.Saenchaigym via KO 1R 2:33 (Spinning Back Kick) Umeno Genji defeats Sirimongkol PK.Saenchaigym via 5R decision (49-47, 49-46, 50-46)
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Post by karaevfan on Nov 28, 2016 2:03:29 GMT 1
Born 1990. Awful and far too young. Rest in peace.
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