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colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

YOU GON' GET IT TONITE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQdpi5uAes

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colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Darn I forgot about the two-knockdown rule for tourneys, kinda lame as far as the bloodthirsty part of my brain is concerned.

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Man why is a guy from Bloody Elbow on my TV

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Really seems that they're trying to fill time here. Cmon, give me my Pat Barry fight :mad:

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Yuriy posted:

@BloodyElbow 2m
Mirko Cro Cop vs Sergei Kharitonov to headline Glory 17 Los Angeles June 21

quote:

Sergei Kharitonov is out of the Glory 17 main event. The Pride and Strikeforce veteran was scheduled to take on fellow Pride star Mirko Cro Cop at the main event of Glory 17 Los Angeles, however, a finger injury has forced Kharitonov to the sidelines for the next two months.

Prior to the Cro Cop vs. Kharitonov announcement, the much rumored main event was Cro Cop vs. Pat Barry, however, Barry's KO loss to Zack Mwekassa at Glory 16 put an end to that fight. Now, with the Kharitonov injury, Cro Cop is again without an opponent.

Glory is currently looking for a suitable replacement and an announcement is due soon. One strange name being tossed around is former UFC Heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia. Sylvia is 7-6 (1) since his 2008 departure from the UFC and has been fighting largely at Super Heavyweight. He's an interesting choice as it sets up a UFC vs. PRIDE showdown, but this is firmly in the camp of rumor, so don't bank on that Cro Cop vs. Sylvia showdown just yet.

Doesn't seem very credible, but :lol: if this happens.

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

I gather that this is a pretty famous fight, but I only saw it the other day when it came up in my recommended YouTube videos. Apparently it was one of the first big American-style kickboxing vs Muay Thai matches. It's pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjPAWx3W03M

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

plus ça change...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DymotqpH2DM

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Kickboxing is the best

quote:

European kickboxing champion Alexander Bolshakov, who holds a 22-0-1 record as a professional, appears to have been brought to justice after it was discovered that he ran a drug smuggling gang that attempted the transportation and sale of narcotics from Latin America.

According to Russian website MMABoxing.ru, the kickboxer and his entire gang were accused of attempting to smuggle and distribute 72 kg of narcotics from the Uruguayan capital city of Montevideo. Apart from 12 kg of cocaine, the Federal Drug Control Service found an additional 60 kg of narcotics including hashish.

It appears that Bolshakov is the leader of the gang, which was revealed when members of his crew were detained in the St Petersburg airport and that ultimately led to his arrest shortly thereafter.

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

So I guess Andy Souwer is still staying active... no idea what this is but lol

https://vine.co/v/O1bpEerIDIH

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Courtesy of BJPenn.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mRwOjeEJw

he's dead :stare:

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Dunno if much is going on these days, so here's some more vintage longpants kickboxing vs Muay Thai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GJBLZje4HM

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Pat Barry vs. Mourad Bouzidi confirmed for GLORY 20: DUBAI card :ohdear:

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfJCYZ06IGI

Yuriy posted:

mike tyson owns

Also even if he's bad there's no way he'll be near as bad as Kimbo was commentating the GP a few years ago.

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HxfXGygex4

lol

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

:pwn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLtPOuwL_M&t=23s

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Let's not forget when he murdered Kid and made his wife cry on TV. :patriot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqt1IFPpxL0&t=695s

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

My only memory of him was when he fought Taiei Kin, thought the ten-second warning was the end of the round and was shocked when Kin continued to punch him, then proceeded to KO him after the round was actually over.

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

K-1 taking Koshien to its logical conclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kPE6oL8Rk0

:3:

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

That was basically the best part of the first Jackass movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po6Ien_Mjto

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

attackmole posted:

The dude who runs my local kickboxing gym is getting all nostalgic and posting long rants on his facebook page talking about the history of the American long pants kickboxing scene of the 70's and 80's. Talking about hanging out with Benny Urquidez, doing analysis of grainy VHS videos of 30 year old fights, etc. It's kind of interesting, because my main exposure to that scene is generally people making fun of it online. Now he's obviously biased given that that was the scene he came up in, but he's given me some new perspective on it. There were so many dumb rules back in the day, but according to him a lot of it was concessions that the fighters were not fans of so that bouts could actually get licensed and promoted. People were scared of everything. Boxing commissions saw things like leg kicks and decided that they shouldn't be allowed because they thought that a stray kick landing to the knee would cause too much injury. The occasional Thai fighter would come to the US, have to fight under a dumb rule set and get pelted with beer cups and booed while they did a Ram Muay. Everyone was crazy uneducated. Easy to look back on and make fun of, but people were trying to do the best they could with the available education of the time. No internet. People were pretty sure Muay Thai fights were bloodsport affairs. It was a weird time. Things didn't start getting standardized until it got more popular to train in Thailand in the 80's and K-1 got off the ground.

On that note, this fight is really cool for anyone who hasn't seen it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpfBYHrCWM

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

Mwekassa is notable mostly for swiftly putting an end to any notions that Pat Barry would be competitive in his return to kickboxing after getting cut by the UFC.

https://fat.gfycat.com/HeavySardonicHippopotamus.webm

colonel_korn fucked around with this message at 21:42 on May 10, 2016

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

:rip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d_aVU1JOvg&t=215s

colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

On the other hand,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1SwrvgcSis&t=110s

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colonel_korn
May 16, 2003

https://twitter.com/GrishamESPN/status/807194206292746240

More weighins should happen in the basement of some warehouse imo, it really adds to the atmosphere

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