2017 In K-1
The year 2017 is the 24th year in the history of the K-1. 2016 starts with K-1 World GP 2017 -62.5kg Japan Tournament. List of events K-1 World GP 2017 Lightweight Championship Tournament {, class="wikitable" style="font-size: 80%;" , - ! colspan="8" style="background-color: #ccf; color: #000080; text-align: center;" , Fight Card , - ! colspan="1" style="background-color: #E6E8FA; color: #000000; text-align: center;" , Weight Class ! colspan="1" style="background-color: #E6E8FA; color: #000000; text-align: center;" , ! colspan="1" style="background-color: #E6E8FA; color: #000000; text-align: center;" , ! colspan="1" style="background-color: #E6E8FA; color: #000000; text-align: center;" , ! colspan="1" style="background-color: #E6E8FA; color: #000000; text-align: center;" , Method ! colspan="1" style="background-color: #E6E8FA; color: #000000; text-align: center;" , Round ! colspan="1" style="background-color: #E6E8FA; color: #000000; text-align: center;" , Tim ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2016 In K-1
The year 2016 is the 24th year in the history of the K-1. 2016 starts with K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament. List of events K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament ''K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament'' was a kickboxing event held on March 4, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Results K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament bracket K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament ''K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament'' was a kickboxing event held on April 24, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Results K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament bracket K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament ''K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament'' was a kickboxing event held on June 24, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Results K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament bracket K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament ''K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament'' wa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cristian Spetcu
Cristian Spetcu (born November 6, 1989) is a Romanian kickboxer. He currently competes in the featherweight division for the Colosseum Tournament, where he is the reigning Colosseum Tournament World Featherweight Champion. Spetcu has also fought in Superkombat Fighting Championship, OSS Fighters, Kunlun Fight, Glory of Heroes, Wu Lin Feng and K-1. As of June 2020, he is ranked the #4 lightweight in the world by Enfusion Live. As of 18 July 2020, he is the #5 ranked bantamweight in the world, according to the International Professional Combat Council (IPCC). As of November 2020, Spetcu is also ranked the #3 bantamweight in the world by Enfusion Live. Career On 29 October 2016, in Changji, China at Rise of Heroes 3 Final, Cristian Spetcu defeated Wang Wanli by TKO to win the Rise of Heroes 3: 63 kg 4-man Tournament. On 12 Nocvember 2016, in Bucharest, Romania at SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix 2016 Final, Cristian Spetcu defeated Simon Santana via unanimous decision to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takeru Segawa
is a Japanese kickboxer. He is the former K-1 Super Featherweight champion, K-1 Featherweight champion and K-1 Super Bantamweight champion. He is the only three weight champion in K-1 history. A generational talent, Takeru is considered to be one of the greatest kickboxers in the modern history of the sport, alongside his compatriot Tenshin Nasukawa. A professional competitor since 2008, Segawa became the K-1 Super Bantamweight champion when he defeated Taiga Kawabe in the finals of the 2015 K-1 Super Bantamweight Grand Prix, on April 19, 2015. He became the K-1 Featherweight champion when he defeated Kaito Ozawa in the finals of the 2016 K-1 Featherweight Grand Prix, on November 3, 2016, thus becoming the first two-weight champion in K-1 history. He further became the K-1 Super Featherweight champion after defeating Kosuke Komiyama in the finals of the 2018 K-1 Super Featherweight Grand Prix, on March 21, 2018, thus becoming the first and only three weight champion in K- ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hideaki Yamazaki
Hideaki Yamazaki ( 山崎 秀晃, born February 5, 1987) is a Japanese Shotokan kickboxer, currently competing in the super lightweight division of K-1. A professional competitor since 2009, Yamazaki is the former Krush Lightweight and Krush Super Lightweight champion, as well as the former K-1 Super Lightweight champion. He also won the Krush -63 kg WILDRUSH League in 2012. As of February 2021, he is the #3 ranked featherweight according to Combat Press. He's been ranked as a top ten featherweight since October 2020. He was previously ranked in the featherweight top ten by Combat Press between April 2016 and May 2018. He was ranked in the featherweight top ten by LiverKick.com. Kickboxing career Lightweight Early career Yamazaki made his professional debut against Yuichiro Kono at J-NETWORK J-FIGHT 27. He won the fight by unanimous decision. He went on to win six of his next seven fights, drawing once against Shuhei Morikawa. He suffered his first professional loss to Ta ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kaew Fairtex
Kaew Fairtex ( Thai: แก้ว แฟร์เท็กซ์; born, September 5, 1984) is a Thai kickboxer and the former WBC Muay Thai World champion at super featherweight and current WPMF World champion at super lightweight. He trains out of Fairtex Gym. As of 1 August 2020, he is ranked the #7 featherweight in the world by Combat Press. Career Kaew won K-1 World GP 2014 –65 kg Tournament on November 3, 2014 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan defeating three Japanese kickboxers in one night with his lightning fast head kicks, and his ability to avoid punches. He took unanimous decision victory over Hideaki Yamazaki in the quarter final, he went through to the finals upsetting one of the best kickboxers in this category, Yuta Kubo, stopping him in the second round with a right hook, finally defeating Yasuomi Soda and conquering the tournament. Kaew dedicated his win to his father, who died a week before the tournament. Kaew will defend his K-1 super lightweight championship at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kenji Kubo
Kenji Kubo (born 4 April 1989), also known simply as KENJI, is a Japanese kickboxer and former professional boxer. He is the 2017 K-1 Super Bantamweight Grand Prix finalist, the 2011 RISE Bantamweight champion and the 2007 NJKF Flyweight champion. Kickboxing career K-1 Kubo returned to K-1 in 2017, and was immediately scheduled to take part in the 2017 K-1 Super Bantamweight Grand Prix. It was his first kickboxing bout in nearly five years. Kubo beat Suen Tak Chuen by an extra round unanimous decision in the quarterfinals, and Nobuchika Terado by a second-round knockout in the semifinals. Kubo fought Yoshiki Takei in the finals, and lost the fight by unanimous decision. After he finished as the runner-up in the Super Bantamweight Grand Prix, Kubo was scheduled to fight a rematch with Nobuchika Terado for the Krush Super Bantamweight title, at Krush 82. The fight was declared a draw after three rounds, and went into an extra round, after which Terado won a unanimous decision. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoshiki Takei
is a Japanese professional boxer and former kickboxer, who has held the OPBF super bantamweight title since August 2022. As a professional kickboxer, he held the K-1 Super Bantamweight Championship from 2017 until 2020, and was the 2017 and 2019 K-1 Super Bantamweight Grand Prix winner. At the time of his retirement from the sport of kickboxing, in December 2020, Takei was ranked as the best fighter at 55 kg and the eight best pound for pound fighter in the world. Kickboxing career Early career Career beginnings Takei made his professional debut against Tasuku at Krush.47 on November 9, 2014. He won the fight by a first-round knockout, stopping Tasuku with strikes to the body at the 2:33 minute mark of the opening round. Takei would then suffer two consecutive defeates, which would prove to be the only two losses of his professional kickboxing career. He first lost a majority decision to Tenma Sano at Krush.49 on January 4, 2015, which was followed by a majority decision ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rukiya Anpo
is a Japanese kickboxer, who commpeted in the super lightweight and welterweight divisions of K-1. A professional competitor since 2011, he is the former K-1 Super Lightweight champion and the 2021 K-1 welterweight Grand Prix runner-up. As of December 2021, Combat Press ranks him as the eight best super featherweight in the world. From June 2021 to February 2021 Combat Press ranked him as the #4 featherweight in the world. He's been ranked in the featherweight top ten since March 2019. Personal life Rukiya started training in Kyokushin Karate at a young age along his brother, they both left the world of Karate competitions with high accolades. Japanese television did a short documentary when they were children depicting them as Karate prodigies. In 2018 he and his brother left the TRY HARD gym from Tokyo to open their own gym called ALL WIN in Osaka which they established with the help of crowdfunding. Kickboxing career Career beginnings Early career Anpo made his professi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brice Delval
Brice Delval (born July 15, 1999) is an Algerian-French Muay Thai fighter. Delval is a former S1 World Champion and has challenged for the ONE Muay Thai Bantamweight World Championship in 2019. Biography and career Born in Nice on July 15, 1999, Brice Delval grew up on the African island of Réunion, off the coast of Madagascar. At the age of 13, Delval left Réunion for Paris to pursue a Muay Thai career, where he joined the Mahmoudi Gym in Bonneuil-sur-Marne shortly after. On August 12, 2016, he defeated Sae Sor. Ploenchit via second-round TKO to win the S1 World Championship 138lb title. Brice Delval made his ONE Championship debut by challenging Nong-O Gaiyanghadao for the ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Championship at ONE Championship: Immortal Triumph on September 6, 2019. After five rounds, Delval lost by split decision. Delval returned to ONE on January 10, 2020, at ONE Championship: A New Tomorrow, facing Muangthai PKSaenchaimuaythaigym. Despite keeping the fig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Koya Urabe
is a Japanese kickboxer, fighting out of Tokyo, Japan. He is the inaugural and former two time K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg World Tournament Champion. As of December 2020, he is the #10 ranked Super Bantamweight according to Combat Press, first entering the rankings in September 2020. He was ranked in the bantamweight top ten by Combat Press between April 2018 and August 2020. His older brother Hirotaka Urabe is also a professional kickboxer, they fought against each other twice. Kickboxing Early career Urabe made his debut at the second Krush event, against Shinichiro Ishii. He won the fight by a second-round TKO. He would win his next nine fights, going undefeated in the first ten fights of his career, and notably defeating Shota Takiya and Tetsuya Yamato. Urabe then entered the Krush First Generation King Tournament, defeating Lee Sung-hyun in the quarterfinals and Takuya Shirahama in the semifinals, but losing the final bout against Ryuji Kajiwara by majority decision. He part ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daizo Sasaki
Daizo Sasaki (born 20 November 1990) is a Japanese kickboxer, currently competing in the super lightweight divisions of Krush and K-1. He is the former Krush Super Lightweight champion, the former Krush Lightweight champion, the 2018 K-1 Super Lightweight Grand Prix finalist and a one-time K-1 World GP Super Lightweight title challenger. As of June 2022, Sasaki is the #6 ranked featherweight in the world according to Combat Press. He's been continuously ranked in the featherweight top ten since February 2021. Kickboxing career Lightweight career Krush lightweight tournament At a press conference held by Krush on December 2, 2015, it was announced that Sasaki would be one of eight participants in the 2016 Krush lightweight tournament, held to fill the throne left vacant by Hideaki Yamazaki. Sasaki faced Hisaki Higashimoto at Krush 62 on January 17, 2016, in the tournament quarterfinals. He won the fight by majority decision. Two of the judges scored the fight 30–29 in his f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Makoto Uehara
Makoto Uehara ( ja, 上原 誠; born November 14, 1984) is a Japanese Shidokan Karateka and heavyweight kickboxer competing in K-1. He is the former RISE Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight champion. Biography and career He faced Hiromi Amada at the ''K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Tokyo Final 16'' on October 14, 2012 and won via unanimous decision. Despite qualifying for the ''K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final'', Uehara was left out in the cold when the event rolled around and was replaced by the higher-ranked Pavel Zhuravlev. Uehara defeated Kengo Shimizu by way of split decision at ''RISE 92'' in Tokyo on March 17, 2013 to win the RISE 90 kg title. He was set to fight Dustin Jacoby at '' Glory 12: New York - Lightweight World Championship Tournament'' in New York City on November 23, 2013 but the match was switched to '' Glory 13: Tokyo - Welterweight World Championship Tournament'' in Tokyo, Japan on December 21, 2013. He defeated Jacoby by split decision. Titles * 201 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |