K-1 WORLD GP 2022 JAPAN ～K’FESTA.5 ～ [03-04] Results

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Fightcard

Lightweight Title Fight
Yamazaki Hideaki vs. Yamato Tetsuya

Superfights
Noiri Masaaki vs. Kato Kona
Anpo Rukiya vs. Phlaychumphon Sor. Srisomphong
Murakoshi Yuta vs. Asahisa Hirotaka
Egawa Yuuki vs. Oiwa Tatsuya
Gunji Taito vs. Toma
Tsubakihara Tatsuya vs. Niimi Takahito
Konnapar Weerasakreck vs. Suzuki Shoya
Matsukura Shintaro vs. Julio Cesar Mori
"Kyoken" Takeuchi Yuji vs. Satori Nariai
Hayashi Kenta vs. Suzuki Hayato
Fukashi vs. Kojima Ruku

Open Weight Tournament
K-Jee vs. Mahmoud Sattari
Kyotaro Fujimoto vs. Sakamoto Hidenori
Ishii Satoshi vs. Jitsukata Kosuke
Animal Koji vs. Tanigawa Seiya

Tournament Reserve Fight
Kato Hisaki vs. Aitaka Ryo

Preliminary Fight
Rui vs. Hoshi Ryunosuke

www.k-1.co.jp/schedule/16575/

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I'm digging it.

We definitely need some more big fights, but due to travel restrictions
I don't think we'll see a lot of foreign fighters on the card.

Less than two months to go!

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One week to go!

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Happening this Sunday!

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Awesome to see some new footage of Mirko, he looks and sounds great.

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Updated the card in the OP.

Absolutely loving it. Just hope the tournament delivers violence.

At "only" 21 fights it's actually one of the smaller K'Festa cards, which is good!

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Event is live AND (partially) streaming on YouTube!

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www.hula8.net/article/48416.html

For the rest of the card, thanks to lero

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Results
Lightweight Title Fight
Yamato Tetsuya defeats Yamazaki Hideaki by KO R1

Superfights
Noiri Masaaki defeats Kato Kona by KO R2
Anpo Rukiya defeats Phlaychumphon Sor. Srisomphong by KO R1
Asahisa Hirotaka defeats Murakoshi Yuta by KO R1
Oiwa Tatsuya defeats Egawa Yuuki by Unanimous Decision
Gunji Taito defeats Toma by Extra Round Unanimous Decision
Tsubakihara Tatsuya defeats Niimi Takahito by Unanimous Decision
Konnapar Weerasakreck defeats Suzuki Shoya by KO R1
Matsukura Shintaro defeats Julio Cesar Mori by Unanimous Decision
"Kyoken" Takeuchi Yuji defeats Satori Nariai by KO R2
Suzuki Hayato defeats Hayashi Kenta by KO R3
Fukashi defeats Kojima Ruku by KO R3

Open Weight Tournament
Mahmoud Sattari defeats Tanigawa Seiya by KO R3
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Mahmoud Sattari defeats Kyotaro Fujimoto by Majority Decision
Tanigawa Seiya defeats Kato Hisaki* by KO R1
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Mahmoud Sattari defeats K-Jee by KO R1
Kyotaro Fujimoto defeats Sakamoto Hidenori by KO R2
Ishii Satoshi defeats Jitsukata Kosuke by KO R2
Tanigawa Seiya defeats Animal Koji by Unanimous Decision

*Kato replaced Ishii Satoshi who was injured after his first fight.

Tournament Reserve Fight
Kato Hisaki defeats Aitaka Ryo by KO R3

Preliminary Fight
Hoshi Ryunosuke defeats Rui by KO R1

www.k-1.co.jp/schedule/16575/

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Thoughts:

+ Most of the event aired on Abema's YouTube channel...
+ Fantastic event overall with mostly good to great fights.
+ So many awesome KO's & knockdowns.
+ Tournament went pretty much as expected: Not the highest level of kickboxing overall, but a highly entertaining affair nonetheless.
+ Solid tournament victory by Sattari.
+ Liked Tanigawa's heart throughout.
+ Tanigawa's KO over Kato is an instant classic.
+ Yamato one shotting Yamazaki was unreal.
+ Noiri is on an entirely different level and I agree with the notion that he should be P4P ranked already.
+ Impressive comeback victory by Anpo Rukiya.
+ Asahisa Hirotaka's performance was super impressive. It must be said though that Murakoshi Yuta looked less than ready for this fight.
+ Great comeback within a fight by Gunji.
+ Peter Aerts was there!
+ Production values for the event were on point.

- ...The 4 main fights didn't air on Abema's YouTube channel.
- A bit disappointed my boys K-Jee and Kyotaro fell at the hands of Sattari. Of course Sattari was one of the favorites going into this, but as former Champions I was expecting them to give Sattari more trouble. Nothing against Sattari though, I like him and his performance was great.
- Gunji/Toma groin shots & headbutts killed the momentum of the fight multiple times.
- Fukashi/Kojima got more clinchy as the fight went on, though it was saved by the KO.
- One ref had this slightly weird habit to pause counts to tell the other opposing fighters to stay in their corner when they were wandering about. More of a nitpick than a complaint.
- While we're nitpicking, there were a few hiccups in the presentation. Like at the end of round 2 between Hayashi/Suzuki when they played victory music for a few seconds instead of just the break music. I get where the confusion happened, but it's a bit rare for K-1 events to have such mixups.

Think I only missed 2-3 fights in total that I have to catch up to so yeah, feels like a very efficient start to Sunday to me lol.

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Masato should be considering a comeback. Old guys are having a second spring.