K1 is terug! Van Japan naar China. Mooie line-up, 29 oktober.

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Op vrijdag 27 juli 2012 21:24 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Seth Petruzelli

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Op vrijdag 27 juli 2012 21:24 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Seth Petruzelli

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Seth Petruzelli's already fought in pro kickboxing before, and he's got an awesome 0-2 record at the moment, with one of those losses coming from the almighty Bob Sapp.

His third try is probably going to turn out as well as Marcus Davis's foray into kickboxing--meaning, pretty fucking badly.

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America's best heavyweights including Mighty Mo (32-16), Rick Roufus, (63-9-1), Seth Petruzelli (22-16), Dewey Cooper (49-14-2), Randy Blake (22-0), Xavier Vigney (6-1), and Tony Lopez (31-9) and one more yet to be announced will compete on Saturday, September 8 for a chance to represent the United States in the K-1 Rising World Grand Prix Final 16 in Tokyo, Japan.

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K-1 has slowly but surely gotten their Los Angeles re-debut on September 8th together, as they had first announced the names involved in the event, now we have a fight card. A bit of a mix of names from K-1's US GP events ten years ago to newer names, the matchmaking was done with a few different ideas in mind, looking to make competitive bouts where possible. Card is as follows.

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OK, that is pretty shit. I get its a US GP and the max/heavy were going to be like this. But these super fights wtf? They had a tough job selling tickets as it was already, i assumed they would throw in the Crocops/Badrs/etc in as superfights to at least have a chance of selling some tickets.

Well not Badr...but you get the deal

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2012 16:34 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
crocop doet niet meer mee? zeker geen geld voorruit gehad

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2012 16:49 schreef Michael_Moore het volgende:

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Je verwart US GP met Final 16 in Japan.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2012 17:02 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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oh, eens kijken of die er nog komt,lol

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2012 17:58 schreef Michael_Moore het volgende:

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Voor Badr maakt het wsl sowieso niet uit.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2012 19:03 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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is dit dezelfde K-1 waarvan Rutz zei, dat ze niet betaald hadden?

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At the weekend Simon Rutz, the head of Its Showtime, gave a statement about his relationship with K-1 and the K-1 Rising show, in which he accused the brand’s new owners of not paying their bills and leaving the local Spanish promoter with extensive costs to pay. He said it was because of this that he had decided a working relationship was untenable and to sell out to GLORY.

Today K-1 owner Michael Kim issued a short statement of his own in which he claimed that Rutz’s allegations were untrue. He says that “almost all the money for the fighters who participated in the event has been paid” and that “a few did not get paid because the person who introduced these fighters to us, Simon Rutz, has yet to provide us their payment details and that has prevented us from wiring them their money.”

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Glory Sports International, the parent company of world championship kickboxing league GLORY World Series, has today revealed the names of the first 13 fighters who have accepted an invitation to compete in the 'GLORY Grand Slam – Heavyweight,' 16-man, one-night, single-elimination tournament event in Tokyo, Japan in December.

World No.1 ranked heavyweight Semmy Schilt of The Netherlands tops the list and is joined by legendary icons Remy Bonjasky of Suriname, Peter Aerts of The Netherlands and Jerome LeBanner of France as well as decorated champions Errol Zimmerman of Curacao, Gokhan Saki of Turkey, Sergei Kharitonov of Russia and rising stars Filip Verlinden of Belgium, Ismael Londt of The Netherlands and Suriname, Braddock Silva of Brazil, Brice Guidon of France, Jamal Ben Saddik of Morocco and Igor Jurkovic of Croatia.

The nearly complete tournament field marks an unprecedented assembly of the world’s most outstanding kickboxing talent. The three fighters who will fill the remaining spots in the tournament draw will be announced soon, with Japanese fighters expected in the line-up.

The December date and Tokyo venue for the event will also be announced soon.

Only fighters in the upper echelon of the stand-up fighting world were invited and their names underline GLORY’s position as the world’s No. 1 kickboxing league. Never in the history of the sport has there been such a convention of top-ranked fighters in a single night.

”We are thrilled to be able to bring such a high-caliber group of talent to Tokyo as part of our mission to usher in a new dynasty in stand-up fighting,” said Marcus Luer, Managing Director of GLORY World Series.

“GLORYis the premier league of kickboxing and the tournaments are open only to those fighters who have proved themselves to be worthy,” explained Cor Hemmers, kickboxing icon and GLORY ambassador.

“The fighters we have invited to the Grand Slam are either household names in the sport already or are the future Champions. They represent more than 10 nations spanning 4 continents”

“The fights will be spectacular and the tournament will be dramatic. The winner will be the unquestioned king of the heavyweight division.”

The Grand Slam event will debut a new tournament format devised by Hemmers. The sixteen fighters will battle it out over four stages in one night to determine an overall winner.

Full details of the new tournament format will be announced soon.

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Op woensdag 8 augustus 2012 17:03 schreef Michael_Moore het volgende:
World's greatest kickboxers for GLORY GRAND SLAM – Heavyweight

No. 1 ranked Semmy Schilt joined by legends Remy Bonjasky, Peter Aerts, Jerome LeBanner and 9 other champions and rising stars

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Badr Hari will be in police custody for 90 days, which is reserved only for people who have a lot of evidence against them. This means that there is no way he will be able to compete in K1′s next event in October.

K1 has invested a lot in Badr Hari, and it seems at this point it has all come to nil. Badr Hari has been in this kind of trouble before, but has always seemed to escape serious jail-time. This time, however, the victim is a millionaire, and cannot be payed off like perhaps previous victims have been before.

Someone commented that Badr seems to be in a similar position that his hero, Mike Tyson, was in when he was sent to jail for the rape of Desiree Washington. Once released, Mike Tyson, was never the same fighter that he was before. It remains to be seen what impact this event will have on Badr’s career. Whatever it is, Badr’s future career prospects look bleaker than ever. It will probably be a long time before we ever see Badr Hari in the ring again.

What a waste of talent.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2012 21:01 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
AS neemt het rest van het jaar vrij, schijnbaar was het een zwaar gevecht tegen Sonnen

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GLORY_WS twitterde op maandag 13-08-2012 om 16:02:25 GLORY's Grand Slam tournament will feature an exciting new format. Prepare for an action overdose in December in Tokyo! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 augustus 2012 16:00 schreef johndekniller het volgende:
Ik hoop snel deze topper weer in de kickbox ring te zien, laatste tijd houd hij zich vooral met mma bezig heb ik begrepen :

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Melvin Manhoef will continue his Asian tour. The Dutchman, who recently competed with OneFC, will return to Asia only this time in Korea to fight Kim Jae Young at RoadFC 009 and will be the main event of the card.

Manhoef's last fight ended in a bit of disappointment when his shin bone split through his skin after exchanging leg kicks, causing the fight to be stopped and ruled a no contest. Manhoef's fight with Nakanishi will hopefully be rebooked at some point as the two are very highly touted fighters that would have no doubt put on a good show.

Kim Jae Young is 14-9 and a veteran of the Korean circuit. Having fought the majority of his fights with Spirit MC, Young is now a regular with the promotion. He has also seen fights with M-1 Global and DEEP. The idea here is obviously to create a fight between two sluggers as Young has won over 70% of his fights by knockout. We know what Manhoef is capable of.

This is Manhoef's first fight with RoadFC, part of the OneFC Network of Asian promotions. The fight will be contested at middleweight.