The Big Kickboxing News & Rumors Thread [2018]

[lero]

Yi Long knocked Hong Mang Choi down with a spinning kick that landed in the giant's liver, the korean was pretending it landed in his balls, but in the replay is clear that was not the case.

Yi Long wins by KO.

[Shadess]

That was fake as fuck though. Embarrassing to have Kunlun people involved in that.

Choi wasn't even trying to fight really. Literally, had he just extended his arm Yi Long couldn't have even gotten in range to throw those low kicks he did.

It was the same shit that was with Zhou Zhipeng vs. Choi. It wasn't a real fight. I don't know how they had meant for it to end, maybe just in a draw? Just that with the "low blow" then Choi got like 7-8 minutes to try to continue and didn't.

There were some entertaining fights but overall the event was quite badly done.

They seemed to be running long or whatever the case was and Fox Sports cut the broadcast before the main event.
The PPTV stream lagged out and didn't even show ~the first third of the Yi Long fight. Instead, they just kept cutting to a promo video for the fight like 5 times.

The fights also started by them putting on the gloves for the fighters in the ring. So they walked in, faced off, then we got 5mins of crowd shots before each fight could even start.

[K1power]

Victories over Kehl, Buakaw and now Choi. Yi Long is the REAL Champion of the World...

[fartsmeller]

I haven't watched it and don't intend to, but I don't think Choi having absolutely no interest in actually fighting is indicative of it being some sort of setup. That's kind of his MO now.

[Shadess]

Choi isn't out there to be the best in the world for sure, but still in the last fights before these ones against Zhou Zhipeng and Yi Long it took him like 5 seconds to do more in a fight than what he did in those 2 fights combined. I doubt the lack of takedowns and now being against ~73kg guys is more of a threat to him.

Can't imagine all sides weren't well aware of what was expected to happen here.

[Shadess]

http://instagr.am/p/BqFbSxHgx7T

Well, he seems ok, but he's missed a few fights just this year due to injuries. Think he was supposed to be in the Wu Lin Feng League thing, would've been 3-5 fights but broke his hand, now was supposed to be on EM-Legend I'm pretty sure and knee surgery instead.

"shocking announcement" next guy to Glory? If there's a weight-class for him.

[lero]

ISKA is opening a chinese branch. They hold a press conference yesterday, they said they are going to do a reality show for discovering new talents in China.



Paul Nicholls was there, Glory of heroes CEO and Qiu Jianliang were there.






Hope this can lead in the long run to some chats between Glory and GoH. Would be Awesome to see QJL in Glory now that K-1 and GoW relationship seem to be stagnated after the Wei Rui miss-weight series of incidents in K-1 Festa.

sports.qq.com/a/20181112/016037.htm

sports.people.com.cn/n1/2018/1112/c22158-30395271.html

sports.sina.com.cn/others/boxing/2018-11-11/doc-ihnstwwq3423255.shtml

[Shadess]

Some GoH guy who runs ISKA China I think. Wonder what they can really do in China. Don't know what to think of it really either. Usually, I'm just hoping all these kickboxing organizations just "went away", to say it nicely.

[lero]

Happening this saturday




-Tenshin Nasukawa vs. Taiki Naito II
-Rodtang vs. Yuuki
-Suakim vs. Capllonch
-Beinoa vs. Watabe Daiki

[fartsmeller]

I desperately need to watch Rise but I'm supposed to meet an old friend at the same time. Please get sick. Please.

[fartsmeller]

Also Floyd has now un-backed out of the Tenshin bout but made sure to totally deflate it as much as possible. Promotional genius at work.

[K1power]

There was another inside Glory type of program on Veronica last night. I just zapped past it, but it looked like Hemmers was spotlighting undercard fighters again.

[K1power]

[K1power]

Ghita just shared a picture of how his shins looked after Glory 4's 16-man tournament:



That hurts just watching it.

[lero]