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Post by Shadess on Apr 19, 2020 20:50:10 GMT 1
lol
Just to be clear, it was in no way actually a ONE Championship event. Global Citizen organized it, ONE has had some kind of partnership with them probably gave them free ad space on their events and in return got to use the Global Citizen name to plug some of their athletes. The event was called One World: Together At Home, Chatri stylized the name to ONE World: Together At Home and they re-streamed it some hours later. Some apparently bought it as their event...sigh.
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Post by Shadess on Apr 25, 2020 16:28:07 GMT 1
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Post by Shadess on Apr 25, 2020 16:31:32 GMT 1
They might be going from ~1h30mins live broadcasts to ~3h, or even more if they wanted to.
I don't know what Henan usually broadcasts during the night, but looking at their schedules now at least it's basically every day from midnight to 6 in the morning Wu Lin Feng replays. Meaning on Fridays and Saturdays when they also broadcast from nine to midnight it's Wu Lin Feng for nearly 9 hours straight.
Really interesting to see how this goes actually. Might mean they could have to up to double the amount of fights they do. Or could be they'll just show an additional 1h30min replay every Saturday. Would be kind of dumb to show old replays starting from ~21.15 though, when for years they have broadcast fresh content in that timeslot.
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Post by Shadess on Apr 25, 2020 20:15:17 GMT 1
Kunlun 70 kg NYE Tournament ---------------------------------- Dzianis Zuev (2014 Champion) Superbon (2016 Champion) Davit Kiria (2018 Champion) Dong Wenfei (WLF/S-1 Champ of some sort) Kong Lingfeng Anatoly Moiseev (WLF Champion) Khayal Dzhaniev (Champion of making Buakaw bleed) TBA Kunlun saying once the corona situation outside China improves, travel restrictions go away etc. they'll do the 2x postponed 70 kg tournament. Kiria, Zuev, Moiseev, Dzhaniev and Kong Lingfeng still seemingly onboard. Same place, (mostly) same lineup...gotta work on the 3rd try, right? |
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Post by Shadess on Apr 27, 2020 19:42:39 GMT 1
Wu Lin Feng upcoming leagues/cups. With the corona situation/international travel restrictions they can't hold their 3rd annual World Cup, so instead they have elected to run a bunch of domestic leagues/cups over multiple weights. The main one being a 63/66 kg "China super king" cup, however exactly that's supposed to translate idk. This is a weird one with the groups being kind of sorted by different weights. I don't know if the groups are actually fought at those separate weights and then the semifinal and final at whatever catch weight or how this all goes  Group A - 63 kg Zhao Chongyang Zhu Shuai Fang Feida Jin Ying Group B - 66 kg Jia Aoqi Wei Rui Wang Pengfei Liu Xiangming They'll also be doing domestic 60, 63, 65 and 70 kg leagues. 60 kg: Zhao Jiangfeng Li Yuankun Xue Shenzhen Jin Hu Yang Ming Zhao Boshi Zhao Zhanshi Zhang Lanpei 65 kg: Pan Jiayun Zhao Chuanlin Bai Lishuai Kong Dexiang Li Xin Meng Gaofeng Zhang Mengfei TBA 70 kg: Ji Xiang SongShaoqiu Cheng Zisa Liu Shenghao Li Shiyuan Oyang Feng Pu Dongdong Wu Xuesong The 8 fighters will be split into 2 groups, group lottery draw will be streamed on the 29th. Fighters will fight everyone else in their own group once, the 2 fighters with the most points advance to the semifinals. Winner of group A vs. the runner up of Group B/Winner of Group B vs. the runner of Group A. Dates for the group fights: May 15, June 5, July 3, July 31 and August 29 for the semifinals and the final of each tournament. |
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Post by Shadess on Apr 27, 2020 22:30:30 GMT 1
Random thought of the day: Robin van Roosmalen hasn't fought in like a year and a half.
Leaves Glory
--months break--
Signs with Bellator
--months break--
Has a fight scheduled, misses weight
--months break--
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...coronavirus...
Things don't always go as planned.
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Post by lero on Apr 27, 2020 23:02:34 GMT 1
Random thought of the day: Robin van Roosmalen hasn't fought in like a year and a half. Leaves Glory --months break-- Signs with Bellator --months break-- Has a fight scheduled, misses weight --months break-- ... ... ...coronavirus... Things don't always go as planned. I know he is know an MMA fighter, but now that you are talking about Bellator, we can all agree know that Bellator Kickboxing is not a thing anymore right? Gabriel Varga had TWO Kickboxing bouts under Bellator banner since 2018 and is now fighting Bellator MMA, Chingiz Allazov had also TWO bouts on Bellator since joining them in 2018, Raymond Daniels had his last Kickboxing bout in 2018 and now is the new Michael venom Page in Bellator MMA, Joe Schilling has not fight Kickboxing since 2017 and now is full time MMA fighter on Bellator... Fuck you Bellator! |
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Post by Fox on Apr 28, 2020 1:28:44 GMT 1
Isnt Bellator Kickboxing just a regional level Italian league that Bellator runs and sometimes throws in a star main event to attract attention? In any case I cant be too mad because Varga says they pay him more to beat up the Italians than Glory ever paid him to fight killers.
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Post by lero on Apr 28, 2020 1:54:58 GMT 1
Isnt Bellator Kickboxing just a regional level Italian league that Bellator runs and sometimes throws in a star main event to attract attention? In any case I cant be too mad because Varga says they pay him more to beat up the Italians than Glory ever paid him to fight killers. But they did some cards in the US as well. No point to fill up American (and Canadian) top talents if they were going to fight every timein Oktagon (Italy) Now is only Bellator Kickboxing Italy. |
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Post by K1power on Apr 28, 2020 15:13:08 GMT 1
Gabriel Varga's latest kickboxing fight was in October. He actually has an account here, but hasn't been online in a while. Would be cool to hear his side of things.
And yes, 7 out of Bellator's 12 Kickboxing events have been in Italy, I'm guessing with most of the work done by Oktagon.
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Post by Shadess on Apr 28, 2020 21:30:14 GMT 1
Yea they only do kickboxing in Italy anymore I think. Wonder why bother with it just in Italy, doesn't MMA by itself sell at all there or what?
They worked with Oktagon/Fight1 before, now more recently with FIKBMS/WAKO and whoever.
Wonder if Varga sticks with MMA, or maybe back to kickboxing somewhere else if Bellator won't keep paying high kickboxing purses to him in MMA beyond whatever contract he has had.
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Post by Fox on Apr 29, 2020 4:03:21 GMT 1
Bellator also has worked with Rizin in the past so if we're lucky we might get some more cross over fights
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Post by lero on Apr 29, 2020 5:51:08 GMT 1
This is the only Kickboxing match Bellator and Rizin have done (That I'm aware)
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Post by lero on Apr 29, 2020 19:17:16 GMT 1
They'll also be doing domestic 60, 63, 65 and 70 kg leagues.  Grupo A: Li Yuankun, Zhao Boshi, Zhao Jiangfeng, Zhang Lanpei Grupo B: Xue Shenzhen, Yang Ming, Zhao Zhanshi, Jin Hu. 63KG: Grupo A: Wang Zhiwei, Li Tao, Ma Yunkang, Zhang Jun Grupo B: Zheng Junfeng, Liu Chunrui, Jiduo Yibu, Wang Wanli 65KG:  Grupo A: Pan Jiayun, Bai Lishuai, Kong Dexiang, Meng Gaofeng Grupo B: Zhao Chuanlin, Li Xin, Guo Wentao, Zhang Mengfei 70KG: Grupo A: Ji Xiang, Cheng Zisa, Li Shiyuan, Liu Yaning Grupo B: Song Shaoqiu, Wu Xuesong, Pu Dongdong, Ouyang Feng |
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Post by Shadess on May 5, 2020 7:10:01 GMT 1
Seems like iqiyi had sued youku for illegally distributing Kunlun Fight content. See news about Chinese video sites suing each other back and forth over content every now and then, but not seen that they were fighting over Kunlun views loool.
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