The Big Kickboxing News & Rumors Thread [2018]

[Fox]

Their first fight was fun, so this should be good. I don't mind the clinching.

[K1power]

I completely forgot about their first fight and it actually being decent lol

Oh and I like clinching when it's skilled quality clinching.

Adamchuk however is horrible to watch when he's in a clinchy fight and he tends to have those sometimes.

[K1power]

Lol @ Ghita taking jabs at Adegbuyi and Ben Saddik on Facebook right now.

I'd like to see how he'd do against either of them now.

[kbfan]

Actually, he only took jabs at Adegbuyi cause of the shitshow that happened between him and Morosanu mainly, but with Benny and Catinas as well.

He said before the tournament that Saddik is the only really good HW in this tourney. And it's definitely true, HW division today is extremely weak compared to what it once was. Put any of the guys in this tourney (except Saddik) in any of the K-1 final 8 until 2010 and it's a slaughter. It's sad but this is what we have, maybe we'll get to the K-1 standard again sometimes in the future. Maybe ...

[K1power]

The fact that Ghita posted the vid where he knocked out Ben Saddik is pretty much saying "Here's how your champ did against me." and I absolutely detest when fighters do that.

And Ghita is not in a position to talk down on the quality of the division when he himself never held a meaningful title nor defeated an absolute top dog even in this somewhat weaker era.

In fact I don't even think the HW division is that weak to begin with and this is coming from the biggest K-1 fanboy. The main problem is the fractured landscape where not all the best fighters are in the same promotion fighting each other and that the current top heavyweights for the most part just aren't as charismatic as the K-1 legends.

[kbfan]

Dec 9, 2018 12:36:04 GMT 1 K1power said:

The fact that Ghita posted the vid where he knocked out Ben Saddik is pretty much saying "Here's how your champ did against me." and I absolutely detest when fighters do that.

Trust me, he did that to only bash Benny, to show him the difference between them. He did exactly the same with Morosanu, where he showed what he did against Zimmerman, then what Moro did. I'm 99% certain he didn't mean it like that, he actually called Ben Saddik as the only proper HW in this tourney before it finished.

[K1power]

Fair enough. I still think it's a weak comparison, because Ben Saddik is a much different fighter than he was when he fought Ghita. Let's see if Ghita would do better at this point than Benny did last night. Ghita being able to easily defeat Jamal in 2012 means absolutely nothing. I understand that it's just Ghita throwing jabs at Benny, but if his politics are as weak as his reasoning here I understand why he came back to fighting.

[kbfan]

Of course it's weak and very childish as well and Ghita did prove along the years to be a huge crybaby. He's just trying to create controversy in Romania, i suspect he wants to have another go in politics, candidate for a 2nd time in the next whatever elections. He failed badly first time.

[dvewlsh]

I love Daniel Ghita, he's one of my favorite fighters.

But it's been so long now. Farting around with a way over-the-hill Dzevad Poturak is a lot different than a prime JBS.

I get it, he kicked an out-of-shape, young JBS in the gut and put him down, but that was a long time ago and both men are in different places. One man dealt with a terrible illness and kept fighting, the other held out for more money, tried to go into politics and only came back to fighting when most people had forgotten about him.

[Shadess]

Dec 9, 2018 22:18:29 GMT 1 dvewlsh said:

I love Daniel Ghita, he's one of my favorite fighters.

But it's been so long now. Farting around with a way over-the-hill Dzevad Poturak is a lot different than a prime JBS.

I get it, he kicked an out-of-shape, young JBS in the gut and put him down, but that was a long time ago and both men are in different places. One man dealt with a terrible illness and kept fighting, the other held out for more money, tried to go into politics and only came back to fighting when most people had forgotten about him.

BUT HE'S FIGHTING TAVARES!
...OR MOROSANU!
...OR... idk in Sanda or maybe against foreign trees taking Romanian jobs or something.

[dvewlsh]

Luis Tavares has been the measuring stick for all canceled Enfusion fights.

[Shadess]

Just seen a casual mention but seems Wu Lin Feng has Taishan "The Great Wall" Dong of Golden Boy, WWE and some early kickboxing fame, on January 2.

[Shadess]

[lero]

#peopleschampdibuba

[lero]