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2016 In K-1
The year 2016 is the 24th year in the history of the K-1. 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'' was a kickboxing event held on September 19, 2016 at the Yoyog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In K-1
The year 2015 is the 23rd year in the history of the K-1. 2015 starts with K-1 China vs. USA, and ends with K-1 World GP 2015 The Championship. List of events K-1 China vs. USA K-1 China vs. USA was a kickboxing event held on January 1, 2015 at the Golden Eagle Culture City in Changsha, China. Results K-1 World GP 2015 -60kg Championship Tournament ''K-1 World GP 2015 –60kg Championship Tournament'' was a kickboxing event held on January 18, 2015 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. This event featured 8-Man tournament for the inaugural K-1 -60kg Championship, and other super fights. Results K-1 World GP 2015 -60kg Championship Tournament bracket 1 Extra round K-1 China vs. Japan K-1 China vs. Japan was a kickboxing event held on February 1, 2015 at the Golden Eagle Culture City in Changsha, China. Results K-1 World GP 2015 -55kg Championship Tournament ''K-1 World GP 2015 -55kg Championship Tournament'' was a kickboxing event held on April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaaki Noiri
is a Japanese Kickboxing, kickboxer, currently competing in the Featherweight Division of ONE Championship, where he is the List of ONE Championship champions#Featherweight World Championship, interim Featherweight Kickboxing World Champion. He is a two-weight K-1 champion, having held the List of K-1 champions#K-1 World GP Super Lightweight Championship, K-1 World GP Super Lightweight Championship between 2017 and 2018 and the List of K-1 champions#K-1 Welterweight Championship, K-1 World GP Welterweight Championship between 2021 and 2024, as well as a one-time Grand Prix winner, having won the 2021 K-1 World Welterweight Grand Prix. He began practicing karate as a teenager and had great success in both full contact karate and amateur kickboxing in his early teens, which included winning the K-1 Koshien 62 kg (136 lb) schoolboys tournament in 2009, two JKJO titles and a Shin Karate title. After turning professional in 2010, he became a mainstay in the Krush promotion a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilias Bulaid
Ilias Bulaid (born May 1, 1995) is a Moroccan-Dutch kickboxer and mixed martial artist. Ilias was the 2016 K-1 World Super Lightweight Tournament Runner-Up, and is the former Enfusion 67 kg World Champion. He was first ranked as a top ten Featherweight by Combat Press in January 2016, and was last ranked in the top ten in August 2019, before being dropped from the rankings in September 2019. Youth and beginnings Ilias Bulaid was born to parents from Ksar el-Kebir and raised in Den Bosch. At the age of five, his older sister enrolled him in a kickboxing gym in Den Bosch. At eleven, his father died. In Den Bosch, he trained at Fight Club Den Bosch under the tutelage of William van Roosmalen and William Beekwilder. He would later leave Fight Club Den Bosch and join SB Gym to train under the supervision of Said el Badaoui. Kickboxing career Enfusion Early career Bulaid made his professional debut against Angelo Campoli at The Night of Kick and Punch 4°edizione on November 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeru Segawa
is a Japanese kickboxer currently competing in the flyweight division of ONE Championship. 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. Takeru is considered by many to be a generational talent and one of the greatest kickboxers in the modern history of the sport, alongside his compatriot Tenshin Nasukawa. He is currently ranked #2 in the ONE Flyweight Kickboxing rankings. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koya Urabe
is a retired Japanese kickboxer, who competed professionally in the super featherweight and lightweight divisions of K-1. He is the former K-1 Lightweight champion, the former K-1 Super Featherweight champion and a two-time K-1 World Super Featherweight Grand Prix winner. Urabe was ranked as a top ten super bantamweight kickboxer in the world by Combat Press between September 2020 and April 2023, as well as a top ten bantamweight by between April 2018 and August 2020. Professional kickboxing career Super featherweight Urabe made his professional kickboxing debut against Shinichiro Ishii at Krush.2 on March 14, 2009. He won the fight by a second-round technical knockout. Urabe faced the one-time AJKF bantamweight title challenger Shota Takiya at Krush.3 on May 17, 2009. Despite the contest taking place at -60 kg, Takiya weighed in at 55.1 kg at the official weigh-ins, while Urabe came in at 59.1 kg. Urabe won the fight by unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiga Kawabe
Taiga Kawabe is a Japanese kickboxer, currently signed with RISE, where he is the former RISE Super Featherweight (-60kg) champion. He is the former Krush Super Bantamweight and K-1 Super Featherweight champion, as well as a two-time K-1 Grand Prix runner-up. Taiga is the younger brother of Hiroya, who inspired him along with the two time K-1 Max World Champion Masato to start practicing Karate in his childhood, becoming a Black Belt at the fifth grade. He was ranked as a top ten bantamweight in the world by Combat Press between April 2018 and January 2019. Kickboxing career Early career Taiga made his professional debut against Ryota at Krush-EX 2012 vol.6, winning by a third-round TKO. He won his next three fights by unanimous decision, before participating in the Krush Youth Super Bantamweight Grand Prix. He won the tournament with a split decision against Namito Izawa in the semifinals and a unanimous decision against Ryuji Horio in the finals. After an extra round dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Egawa
is a Japanese kickboxer, currently competing in the super featherweight division of K-1. A professional competitor since 2013, he is the former Krush Featherweight and K-1 Featherweight champion. Combat Press ranked him as a top ten super flyweight between September 2020, when he peaked at #2, and July 2021. He was furthermore ranked the #2 strawweight in August 2020. Fighting style Yuki Egawa is a swarming pressure fighter. He likes to make use of non-committal low kicks and feints to force his opponent to strike. Once his opponent's feet are planted and the weight is fully transferred onto the lead foot, Egawa swarms into the pocket and unleashes a combination of body and head strikes. Egawa makes use of lead-leg snap kicks and body kicks, while cutting the ring with small measured steps, to maintain his desired distance and force his opponent into the ropes where he can punch in combinations. Kickboxing career Early career Super Bantamweight career Egawa made his professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minoru Kimura
is a Brazilian kickboxer of Japanese and Italian descent, fighting out of Battle Box Gym. He is the former K-1 Super Welterweight champion. He has faced several notable fighters of his weight division such as Kaew Fairtex, Hideaki Yamazaki, Yasuomi Soda, Masaaki Noiri, Massaro Glunder and Hiroya. He was ranked in the featherweight top ten by Combat Press between June 2015 and March 2017. He was also ranked in the top ten by Liverkick.com. Kickboxing Krush title run He began his kickboxing career fight under the banner of MA Japan. He amassed an 8-2-1 record with them, with six of his wins coming by KO. He capped off his time with MA Japan by winning the MA Japan Super Lightweight Championship. In his Krush debut, Kimura fought NOMAN. He beat him by KO in the first round. In his second fight with Krush, he KO'd Daizo Sasaki in the first round. In his third fight with Krush, he TKO'd Ryuji Kajiwara in the third round. Following his three fight winning streak, Kimura foug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasuomi Soda
is a Japanese kickboxer fighting out of the Silver Wolf Gym, the same gym of the legendary kickboxer Masato. He was the RISE kickboxing Super Lightweight champion, winning his title against Japanese kickboxer Koji Yoshimoto. He was K-1 World GP 2014 -65kg Championship Tournament finalist and holds victories over notable featherweight kickboxers such as Minoru Kimura and Yuta Kubo. Kickboxing career RISE Super Lightweight title run Soda made his debut in 2009, when he participated in the RISE 59 RISING ROOKIES CUP. He won the tournament with victories over Ryuji Yamaguchi, Ishitsukasa Koichi and Atsushi Hori. Soda then went on to win his next eight fights, winning three of them by stoppage. His eleven fight winning streak earned him the chance to challenge Koji Yoshimoto for the RISE Super Lightweight title. He suffered the first professional loss of his career, as Yoshimoto won the fight by unanimous decision. Soda bounced back with a TKO of Kim Dong-soo and a decision win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Uehara
Makoto Uehara (; 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 *2013 RISE 90 kg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroya (kickboxer)
Hiroya (born 6 January 1992) is a Japanese kickboxer. Career He made his K-1 debut at the K-1 World MAX 2007 Japan Tournament in one of the opening fights as the youngest contestant at the age of 15 on February 5, 2007. On February 25, 2012, he lost to Naoki via split decision at ''Big Bang 8'' in Tokyo. He moved up to 65 kg and stopped Chonden Chuwattana with low kicks just thirty seconds into round two at ''Big Bang 11'' on December 2, 2012. He beat Keiji Ozaki by majority decision in a non-tournament bout at ''Krush Grand Prix 2013 ~67kg Tournament First Round~'' on January 14, 2013 in Tokyo. Hiroya had his rubber match with Masaaki Noiri in the quarter-finals of the ''Road to Glory Japan -65kg Slam'' on March 10, 2013. He lost the close fight by majority decision due to a point deduction for low blows. He lost to NOMAN is an extension round split decision at ''Krush.29'' in Tokyo on June 16, 2013. He beat Sapanpetch Sit-Itisukato by decision at ''MAX Muay Thai 4'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuta Kubo
is a Japanese mixed martial artist and former kickboxer, currently competing in the featherweight division of Rizin Fighting Federation. As a professional kickboxer, Kubo is the former Krush and K-1 welterweight (-67.5 kg) champion. Kubo was furthermore the 2011 K-1 World MAX Lightweight (-63 kg) Japan Tournament winner, 2013 Krush Welterweight (-67.5 kg) Grand Prix winner, 2013 Glory 65kg Slam Tournament Winner, and the 2017 K-1 World GP Welterweight (-67.5 kg) World Grand Prix Winner. Combat Press ranked him as a top ten featherweight kickboxer in the world between September 2014 and July 2016, as well as between April and July 2020. Controversy In September 2016, Kubo was detained and arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on allegations of assault causing bodily harm raised by his then-wife. According to his ex-wife's testimony, she was verbally and physically assaulted by Kubo, who was upset over a failed stock investment. Kubo punched the woman several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |