K-1: Past and Future

Or Japan and the Big Boys
Kazuyoshi Ishii had been a karateka in the (then) fearsome Kyokushin system, before breaking was and forming the Seidokaikan struggling system. When Sir Ishii has created the K-1 that struggles formed in 1993, essentially took the Kyokushin formed of tournament of open weight in which has been raised, and in the modifying with the reality has based kickboxing technical. Kyokushin, expensive punches was fouls that directed to disqualification. Relatively the Japanese fighters had been abler to maintain a tenuous superiority on foreigners more grains #by spirited training, rules that have favoured fighters smaller in fights of next decision, and questionable judging. Fort, skilled, relatively small Japanese men and Kenji Midori and Shokei Matsui was able to win championships of world-wide tournament. K-1, even so, discovered that discrepancies of weights carry more, uh, weights, when punches is aimed in the noggin, and that judge' the decisions carry least weights when a fighter is more unconscious that the another.
Any sport that looks in market his precise product a superstar, and Ernesto Hoost was the man of K-1. A big, sleek Dutchman of Surinamese descent, his terrible shins and compatible technical had won it moniker of "the Perfect Sir." Wine of so enough aloof, and his style could be overly cautious time, but was undeniably the better fighter K-1, the plus carry guy in the 'hood, the man that could be behind Sir Ishii when it has said another martial the big art wigs: "This is my bodyguard." And along wine Bob Sapp.
In the 1990, my Japanese friends of the dojo pester me with queries on "Iron" Mike Tyson and his diverse comebacks of the penal system. It could Tyson has beaten a prime Ali? No, would say... Roy seen does not struggle never of Jones? Floyd Mayweather? His eyes invariably look for the premises and if looking for keys lost, or a punch line. He can have beaten Tyson?
Or Problem in Paradise
Such time is time for K-1 to turn to the men the plus small, times to depend so much in the swimming pool of talent smaller of the big boys. There is abundance of men in Japan and elsewhere that it is not 6 '5', still possess the athletic skill and heart to compete in a sport that does not require freakish measure. These men are not only more that abundan quantity, but often more pleasing quality. After all, most of popular boxear of the last decade has been Oscar Of the Hoya, struggling in the weights that comprise of 130-160 pounds. The K-1 could do worse that to increase exposed in his World Max (70kg and down) tournaments, with some how many special heavyweight extreme tacked to the map to satisfy our fascination with big boys. Such time diminutive Norifumi "Boy" Yamamoto could be a kind of dwarfish Golden Boy. It does "the Boy" speaks English? He sings ballads and habladuría on his dead mother? It is dead? He thinks on the possibilities! "Boy" Yamamoto in the Grammy, singing Japanese love ballads...
Or Paradise Reinvented
the K-1 was an impact in Japan, and towering the Europeans have appointed Branco, Ernesto, and Aerts became favourite adherent. Most of popular of all was Andy Hug, one that excites Swede that it had been raised in the Kyokushinkaikan (before wisely complimenting his extraordinary kicking skills with a healthy fact of Muay Thai kickboxing); and has spoken Japanese to kick. Another big Kyokushin karateka, as Fihlo, Feitosa, and Pettas, has tried his hand in the punching in the party of face, when some #how much Japanese Sir Quixotes, as Sataake and Musashi. The K-1 extended during the globe, with the fighting and the tournaments that appear Australia, Africa, #varied European outposts, and finally America. These were "the days of salad".
With a melon begins bigger that most of men torsos, that seat atop a torso more muscled that a hero of book of the comic, carried by legs that looked too heavy to elevator (much less fell), Sapp was one oddly índole fearsome. But has possessed anybody struggling pedigree. A player of football failed, Sapp there has been only recently carried #his 350+ pounds to the kickboxing gymnasium to train. Although it has appeared quite #bobo when struggling, the men the plus small frequently neglected to give a no aparta when Sapp touched, pues has won some trivial extreme. To the Japanese adherents has loved them his cartoon looks of índole and personality. But that puts Sapp with Hoost was folly; it was First Carnera versus Joe Louis.
Realities: there is a fundamental difference between a chin and a breast. The Dutch Men are considerably bigger than Japanese men. It is far more exciting to see two means-naked men (being they Dutch or Japanese) aiming to strike each how another was with any punches, than two gi-carrying guys socking each how another in the breast in a kiai fest.
Although tournaments of K-1 had become global events, the same always seemed fighters to do his way in the Big end Price tournaments that correspond in Japan toward the end of each year. There were the champions (Hoost, Aerts, Hug), the almost champions (Him Banner, Bernardo, Sefo, Fihlo), and always struggled each how another. Then 2001, some fat slob of Australia has appointed Mark Hunts up and won the world-wide tournament, and any K-1 evolved (new blood), or totally random (fat guy has won it all). And along wine Bob Sapp. Random appeared to take the upper hand.
This takes us to the second phase of the evolution of K-1: MMA govern to struggle. Although it would be nice to develop the base of adherent of the K-1, has very diehard adherents of full contact martial arts, and precisamos be answered to and titillated now and again. The K-1 there #be recently does inroads in the world of MMA with the addition of Hero to his shows. That Follows the recent example of Pride and UFC, Hero of characteristic K-1 MMA competition in several kinds of weights. They are train to cultivate A culture to excite, Japanese fighters plus (Yamamoto, Tokoro, and Known), recruiting old MMA stalwarts (the Gracies and - how a knock!--Sakaraba), And providing an earth of training for support-on top of fighters wetting his feet in the swimming pool of full contact (Aerts, Him Banner, and Sefo). This ladder the group indicates the attraction of full contact MMA in the martial world of arts. Fighters of K-1, the being because of boredom with the same old opponents or a wish to try they in a plus challenging format, is branching was. One only can expect that K-1 incursión to MMA is enduring, encourages competition and cooperation between the three organizations of entity (UFC, Pride, K-1), further develops fighting of variegating stature, and finally helps to translate the emotion of MMA to the lexicon of the adherent of fight norteamericana. Or such fair time would have to launch Yamamoto with Sapp and leave them punch each as another bobo in the breast.
K-1: Past & Future
Here an odd contradiction in sports norteamericanos' culture: practical, martial the arts tend to attract middle and practitioners of upper kind, while draws of boxing combatants mainly of the ghetto, still like this the decidedly upper-middle the kind masses average that reluctantly covers the boxing totally has shunned competitive martial arts (UFC, K-1, Pride) in earths of excessive brutality. Most of adherents of boxing and too average is drawn in blood & guts boxers who sacrifice his good when being #by aggressive, incautious brawling (think of the recent Gatti-Ward trilogy). But somehow K-1 with his concussive kicks of none, and MMA with his relatively foreign earth game, strikes a lot of these same Americans how be brutal in a bad way ("human cockfighting").For appeal in a plus wide (and.I.: Norteamericano) Audience, needs of K-1 to market a product that is not the only action wrapped, but also artful in a way that is not too subtle by a inexperienced audience. Graceful carnage.
Boxing pundits how Teddy Atlas and Emanuel Steward bemoan the present state of the heavyweight division, that notes that the current dearth of the big men is big part because of marketing. Big boys (those who frequently grows until being big men) is raised television, and the television is more probably to show big men-- big men, rich-- dribbling basketballs or taking footballs that punching (and when being punched by) other men. The same apply in the current state extraneous struggling arts: the big boys prefer balls on brutality.
By the premiers few minutes of the fight, Hoost has put a perfect beating to give it support. Who have thunk that the Sir Perfects would fail to move his head or feet when a hurt, scared, enraged Sapp has run in a rincón? This Sapp would strike out of the fighter of K-1 bigger? Two time! No kickboxers know as to move his feet and head? It was so if Jordan of Michael had become a player of professional baseball And tore Randy Johnson a new asshole. Tonya Harding There has been laced on top of the gloves of boxing And striked out of Lucia Riijker (two time!). No, this was even goofier. The plus big kickboxer in the world had been striked out of--two time!--By a player of mediocre football. What carry was Sir Ishii neighborhood, when the plus carry guy could not beat a give support? The implications were bigger that Sapp none of melon: Which he seriously can take a sport built in #a so precarious foundation?

Come the new millennium, and my Japanese acquaintances had moved his attention to Bob Sapp and his freakish foray to the K-1 and The Pride that struggle. Can anyone has beaten Sapp, have asked ? He finally atropella Ernesto perfect Hoost, the fighter of K-1 bigger from always? Himself, I scoffed in the previous, and hell fits regarding the last, befuddled and bemused by the oriental obsession with occidental big boys. I have imagined that it was a no different phenomenon my friend of adherent of the boxing that is unduly impressed by the flashy fell big, or the kárate fighting that marvel in the bar of arm. Wow. Look in this guy the one who can no. Look in which guy when being bigger that all the world in my career. Wow.

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