K-1 WORLD GP 2019 JAPAN K'FESTA.2 [10-03] Results

[K1power]

~Main Card Part II - Japan vs the World~
Main Event: 59kg Catchweight Superfight
Takeru vs. Yodkitsada Yuthachonburi

Co-Main Event: 60kg - Super Featherweight Superfight
Koji vs. Jan Szajko

68kg Catchweight Superfight
Wajima Hiromi vs. Kimura "Philip" Minoru

51kg Catchweight Superfight
KANA vs. Josefine Knutsson

57.5kg Featherweight Superfight
Ashizawa Ryusei vs. Jorge Varela

67.5kg Welterweight Superfight
Noiri Masaaki vs. Jordann Pikeur

55kg Super Bantamweight Superfight
Takei Yoshiki vs. Martin Sandro*
*Replaces Alex Rivas

~Main Card Part I - Title Fights & Superfights~

67.5kg - Welterweight Championship
Kubo Yuta vs. Kido Yasuhiro

57.5kg - Featherweight Championship
Murakoshi Yuta vs. Urabe Hirotaka

65kg - Super Lightweight Superfight
Sasaki Daizo vs. Anpo Rukiya

65kg - Super Lightweight Superfight
Soda Yasuomi vs. Matsuhana Masaya

60kg - Super Featherweight Superfight
Komiyama Kosuke vs. Goshu Masanobu

55kg - Super Bantamweight Superfight
Kaneko Akihiro vs. Kumura Shuhei

62.5kg - Lightweight Championship
Urabe Koya vs. Hayashi Kenta

85kg Cruiserweight Championship
Sina Karimian vs. Kato Hisaki

62.5kg - Lightweight Superfight
Osawa Fumiya vs. Shinohara Yuto

62.5kg - Lightweight Superfight
Gonnapar Weerasakreck vs. Liu Wei

67.5kg - Welterweight Superfight
Kondo Kaisei vs. Ruku

57.5kg Featherweight Superfight
Ozawa Kaito vs. Hayato

~Opening Fights~

65kg - Super Lightweight Preliminary Fight
Fumiya vs. Nakano Kota

60kg - Super Featherweight Preliminary Fight
Yutaka vs. Kawaguchi Takuma

55kg - Super Bantamweight Preliminary Fight
Morisaka Riku vs. Kuroda Yuto

53kg Catchweight Preliminary Fight
Riamu vs. Rira

[karaevfan]

Takeru vs Takei Yoshiki
Murakoshi Yuta vs Ozawa Kaito
Urabe Koya vs Gonnapar Weerasakrek
Yuta Kubo vs newly crowned Krush Champ Kimura Minoru
Roel Mannaart vs Ibrahim El Bouni
Chingiz Allazov vs ...Sanny Dahlbeck?

EDIT:
65kg tournament
- Noiri Masaaki vs Abdellah Ezbiri
- Hiramoto Ren vs Qiu Jiang Liang
- Yamazaki Hideaki vs Massaro Glunder
- Yamato Tetsuya vs Ilias Bulaid


Not predictions (beyond the 1st one). More of a wishlist of things I hope they will settle if they don't do so in Sep, Nov, Dec.

[fartsmeller]

Already had "the talk" with the wife about why we finally have to take that holiday to Japan next year, and how it's because of sports and not culture. If they actually do Takeru vs Takei that would be insane.

[karaevfan]

Jun 29, 2018 21:34:37 GMT 1 fartsmeller said:

Already had "the talk" with the wife about why we finally have to take that holiday to Japan next year, and how it's because of sports and not culture. If they actually do Takeru vs Takei that would be insane.

Takeru wants to main event KFesta 2. Takei also wants to main event KFesta 2. Boom. Problem solved.

[karaevfan]

2 mins till first card announcements. I will update this post as they come in

Takeru fights reigning Raja champ Yodkitsada

Kubo was forced by his wife to bring a monkey to the presser. Normal shit

[fartsmeller]

A few things of note:

If the event producer switch was meant to fight the Tenshin/Takeru fires, it clearly hasn't worked.

A reigning stadium champ is a huge surprise after settling into a groove of just getting Thais with similar names. Love it.

I'm not sure if Takeru is hinting that his goal is to take K-1 international or whether there's a big open air stadium being built for the olympics or something?

It's nice that they made a real title fight (Noiri vs Pikeur) alongside the tryhard jackass championship of the world.

Great to see Takei/Rivas get made, but it's dumb that it's Rivas' second non-title fight in a row.

[lero]

Noiri fighting 70kg?

[karaevfan]

Dec 28, 2018 0:14:08 GMT 1 lero said:

Noiri fighting 70kg?

67.5!

It's pretty brilliant onKubo's part. I think Noiri, Pikeur, Hiramoto and even Kimura would be the favorite over him but he won't get best by any of them

[fartsmeller]

Bunch of fight announcements today, the card is now up to 13 fights. The first K'Festa would've been like 17 fights without the tournament, so it must be nearly finished now. Karaev Fan said on twitter that the new event producer said there's another Japanese vs non-Japanese fight to be announced.

Not the best fight announced today but I'm into Goshyu finally fighting Komiyama.

[K1power]

Since at this point we have 13 fights announced it was about time I updated the opening post.

The Good:
- So far we have a stacked card with awesome matchups.
- Japan vs the World is what they're actually calling the main portion of the card.
It feels like a throwback to how classic K-1 cards were themed.

The Bad:
- I've said it before, but I'm not a fan of some champions not being in title fights.
I get it for catchweight bouts, but that's it.
- (Why) aren't Mannaart and Allazov defending their belts?
- Title fights still aren't 5 rounds.

[karaevfan]

I expect at least 2, probably 5ish fights to be added to the card on 1.18

No word on whether Mannaart and Allazov aren't on the card, but I presume not. Allazov seems like he was recomitting to bellakick and Mannaart has Glory stuff?

[K1power]

Jan 15, 2019 4:50:54 GMT 1 karaevfan said:

Allazov seems like he was recomitting to bellakick and Mannaart has Glory stuff?

Fuck that!

At least give us title defenses for those guys as they already only fight once a year in K-1.

[Fox]

Maybe Im in the minority here but Mannaart being champ is kinda just a novelty to me and I don't think there are compelling match ups for Allazov. I would have no problem with them going to Bellator or whatever.

[fartsmeller]

Jan 15, 2019 4:50:54 GMT 1 karaevfan said:

No word on whether Mannaart and Allazov aren't on the card, but I presume not. Allazov seems like he was recomitting to bellakick and Mannaart has Glory stuff?

Ask and ye shall receive*

*Offer not valid for Rukiya

They've announced 6 extra fights today, so the card is again enormous

[fartsmeller]

After they announced 6 main card bouts they announced 5 prelim fights (including Kaisei Kondo) so again, enormous