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Post by dvewlsh on Feb 1, 2018 20:34:59 GMT 1
Jesus.
That'd be bad.
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Post by Shadess on Feb 2, 2018 1:14:40 GMT 1
Notice it's early in the year and/or there's been changes with people trying to mess with their wikipedia pages again  Wiki for kb in general is such trash it's kind of amazing someone hasn't gone and deleted almost all of it  The notability requirements hopefully will be a little more sensible in some months at least. |
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Post by dvewlsh on Feb 2, 2018 1:27:58 GMT 1
I did an interview last night with a Japanese site last night (Queel.me) and they were asking me why LiverKick and myself are quoted on Wikipedia so much and I had to explain that A) there really isn't a lot of English language kickboxing news out there, at least not on sites that stick around. Most English kickboxing sites disappear after a few years, and that  the requirements to have a wikipedia page are weirdly skewed against kickboxing and the people who do the pages will grasp for any bit of news from a reputable source to justify a page. |
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Post by Shadess on Feb 2, 2018 1:55:12 GMT 1
I don't know if they're really skewed against kickboxing but they are just out of touch with value being put on the ISKA, WAKO, WKN titles and such. I'm being a little forceful  , have to be though since it's been talked a bunch of times and nothing has ever been changed... but I essentially gave them till June to discuss how to update the notability and then I'll just proceed to change it if nobody really objects. Be gone alphabet orgs and in come Kunlun and perhaps other promotions. |
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Post by karaevfan on Feb 2, 2018 2:12:33 GMT 1
I did an interview last night with a Japanese site last night (Queel.me) and they were asking me why LiverKick and myself are quoted on Wikipedia so much and I had to explain that A) there really isn't a lot of English language kickboxing news out there, at least not on sites that stick around. Most English kickboxing sites disappear after a few years, and that the requirements to have a wikipedia page are weirdly skewed against kickboxing and the people who do the pages will grasp for any bit of news from a reputable source to justify a page. Queel is a fantastic site. They've done a ton of long interviews with guys like Tanikawa about the end of K-1 that was fascinating to say the least. |
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Post by dvewlsh on Feb 2, 2018 3:11:17 GMT 1
Not sure why the hell they interviewed me, then.
The dude was SHOCKED that I knew about Japanese stuff, like legitimately shocked. They must think we have zero knowledge at all of kickboxing (I mean, as a whole, yeah). When I told him that I was a big fan of Fire Harada he got all excited.
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Post by fartsmeller on Feb 2, 2018 10:21:05 GMT 1
I hope K-1 doesn't actually explode in a fireworks display of unknowable political bullshit, but more than that I hope that somewhere out there, Fire Harada is happy
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Post by karaevfan on Feb 2, 2018 19:10:37 GMT 1
I hope K-1 doesn't actually explode in a fireworks display of unknowable political bullshit, but more than that I hope that somewhere out there, Fire Harada is happy Last I heard he was running a gym, but he had to quit and gave the gym away to someone else. He had a protege he was raising called "Red" Reo, but he went off and joined Tenshin's team. Seems completely MIA these days. |
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Post by K1power on Feb 2, 2018 22:18:00 GMT 1
So I saw this commercial just air on Dutch television:
It's pretty cool to slowly, but surely see kickboxers become more well known and accepted in mainstream media over here rather than just headlining crime stories.
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Post by Shadess on Feb 2, 2018 22:33:09 GMT 1
~14h till the season ender shows of Wu Lin Feng and GoH. Kunlun also on Sunday in the morning euro time. Interesting to start seeing how they begin going at the new year soon afterwards.
Wu Lin Feng could be slightly disruptive for 63-65kg with a big pile of money tournament this year perhaps, Emei should venture out to Europe a couple times and Kunlun and GoH haven't really said much of anything yet.
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Post by K1power on Feb 3, 2018 12:41:30 GMT 1
I hope it doesn't amount to anything serious. Either way, looking forward to the finalized card! The new rumor I'm hearing is the Try Hard gym is going to drop out of K-1. So Taiga vs Takeru cancelled and possibly Gonnapar vs Rukiya out as well. We should know within next few days. The source isn't great, so I'm giving this maybe 20-40% likelihood. So this confirms it:  www.k-1.co.jp/news/27341/This blows. I wonder what's behind all this? Who started stirring the pot and where will the TRY HARD GYM fighters end up? KNOCK OUT? Glory? China? Scattered? |
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Post by Shadess on Feb 3, 2018 14:24:14 GMT 1
Wu Lin Feng starting live.qq.com/10013567At GoH Varga seems to have lost a close decision to Tie Yinghua |
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Post by karaevfan on Feb 3, 2018 18:36:45 GMT 1
The new rumor I'm hearing is the Try Hard gym is going to drop out of K-1. So Taiga vs Takeru cancelled and possibly Gonnapar vs Rukiya out as well. We should know within next few days. The source isn't great, so I'm giving this maybe 20-40% likelihood. So this confirms it: www.k-1.co.jp/news/27341/This blows. I wonder what's behind all this? Who started stirring the pot and where will the TRY HARD GYM fighters end up? KNOCK OUT? Glory? China? Scattered? Confirmed: The catalyst was that Try Hard gym was unhappy with their contract at the end of last year. K-1 had a discussion with them and things quelled for a while, which lead to Taiga and Rukiya being booked in fights. However, very recently Try Hard pushed to unilaterally scrap their contract. Lawyers are now involved. Speculation: The catalyst seems to be that Taiga wanted to volunteer as Tenshin's opponent for NYE last year. K-1 is quite draconian about how their Japanese fighters can go out and participate in other orgs, so that seemed to be the start of the bad blood. No one is quite sure where people will end up atm, but Tenshin and his crew has been quite gleeful at K-1 Japan breaking up so I would bet at least some of them end up in RISE or KNOCK OUT. |
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Post by Shadess on Feb 3, 2018 19:31:13 GMT 1
Kunlun in 11h30mins. English commentary on fite/ebtv. **ad for personal gain!** You can watch for free on fite if you're not registered yet. Use my ref code and we both get free credits on the service Hey! Use my code "0y2vjlv" to get $15 credit to watch combat sports on the FITE app. fite.tv/invite/0y2vjlvThat's enough for a couple Kunlun streams. Wu Lin Feng could be slightly disruptive for 63-65kg with a big pile of money tournament this year perhaps 67kg 16-man, Bulaid and pals, Singdam probably since he just fought and won. Funny if it ends up being half the same guys Kunlun had just a while ago. After tomorrow then hopefully more stuff about the upcoming year starts dropping. |
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Post by karaevfan on Feb 4, 2018 0:06:40 GMT 1
Its about as good of a time as any to note that K-1 Japan seems to be imploding under the weight of a thousand cuts. This is the first scandal to really impact matchmaking, but we've seen a bunch of tiny scandals rise up over the past month or so. Noiri and Ozawa seemed to have feuded with Kohiruimaki over something which led to Kohiruimaki being purged from K-1 and K-1 Gym (formerly Kohiruimaki Dojo) Ebisu. Kubo Yuta is under fire from allegations of DV which have not gotten an official response yet. And now this.
Since Team Dragon-gate, K-1 Japan's institutional rot has been increasingly exposed. While people are holding out hope that its just some bad apples in management--and I've heard some crazy theories on who the real mastermind behind the shadows is--that can be removed, I'm skeptical.
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