K1 = sensationlism?!

[Fenris-wolf]

I don't know how many people here have been watching K1, but has anybody else noticed that the entire competition seems to be becoming a farce? It's always obviously been audience-orientated, what with the 1-knee rule etc, but recently the rules seem to have become optional.

 

Take the NZ-Australia K1 that was on recently. One of the NZ competitors, Te Rangi, broke the rules, blatantly about 3 times and got nothing! (To my horror as a NZer. He's never been very good, but this was painful)

 

To be precise, he threw in a punch well after the ref had seperated them, breaking his opponent's nose. He should have been disqualified, but all they did was give his opponent (No, I can't remember his name. It was Greek I think) a 5 min recovery time. Then two or three times he turned his back, holding onto the ropes, which should have got him an 8-count. If it had been Muay Thai the stupid prat would have had the back of his head smacked in! And he kept deliberately falling over whenever he was losing (which was often). Not illegal, but annoying!! And then the ref had the gall to give his opponent an 8-count for hitting Te Rangi "on the ground" when he was blatantly on the way down, which is not illegal.

 

This after the debacle with the sumo wrestler Japan (at least I understand that, even if it's disgusting) leaves me with little respect for K1 right now!

[G Money Slick]

Yeah it's pretty dirty. Last November Francious Botha punched the dude when he was on the ground in the first 10 seconds. Damn frenchman.

 

You'll see Shannon Briggs and Botha in action Friday. I'm gettin it on PPV.

[Northren Ogre]

Botha is South African by the way and in his first K-1 event...hopefully he looks better in his future showings. I'm rooting for the boxers to do well in these events.

[ramymensa]

Given the fact the big money is now from K1 I'm not amazed by this unpleasant turn. Indeed the Yokozuna has nothing to do in K1 (my opinion of course). Sumo is way different than fighting in K1. We are talking distinct techniques, ways of training and rules.

 

Unfortunatelly some matches seem "worked" from outside and less credible. Maybe something would change for the better, though it's a small chance ... we're talking here BIG money.

[G Money Slick]

Cung Li, a San Shou fighter just beat Bulldog Petit last night on K-1 replay. Man that was a sweet fight.

[Northren Ogre]

Was that Cung Li or the better known Cung Le? Cung Le is awesome to watch fight, and I'm glad to see a San Shou fighter with plenty of exposure.

[tofu]

K-1 is trying to expand its popularity in the heavyweights. If your looking for some good technical fights you should check out K-1 MAX (middleweights); there aren’t as many Sumo wrestlers and NHF linemen playing there. I know these fights can be hard to find though: in the US the middleweights aren’t marketed at all.

[unknown]

K1 does showcase many good fights. However, the reason why it is becoming such a farce is due to the fact that the Japanese are just infatuated with western culture - that being said, they get clowns like Bob Sapp and soon Mike Tyson in there to act like complete morons because they think it is "cool".

 

Like I said before, they still showcase some excellent fighting. Ernesto Hoost, Stephen Leko and Masata Masata to name a few......

[Wise Master]

Man cung le kick *, see his fight with differnrt style he rules man, also k-1 one day I want to compete in there as well.