Two Fights Official for Final 16
by Fraser Coffeen on Sep 8, 2010 6:51 PM EDT
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K-1 has officially announced the first two fights for the Final 16, and one is a surprise.
First up, Alistair Overeem v. Ben Edwards. This one was already confirmed by Edwards, and this makes it official. Overeem of course made it to the semi-final round last year, where he was stopped by Badr Hari, while Edwards comes in after setting a record for the fastest K-1 tournament win in the Oceania GP this summer.
The next one is a split from what was rumored as it will be K-1 HW champion Kyotaro v. Jerome Le Banner. I like this fight a lot, as Le Banner has the size and power to simply outmuscle Kyotaro, but Kyotaro has the speed and counter striking to take this. Tough fight to call, and I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
The initial rumors had Le Banner v. Errol Zimmerman and Kyotaro v. Gokhan Saki. Since it won't be Zimmerman v. Saki in the Final 16 (both men train together and are close friends), this throws the rumor match-ups into disarray. Expect more official announcements to come soon.
One final note - Daniel Ghita has confirmed to kombat.ro that he will indeed be taking one of the wild card slots in the Final 16. No word yet on his opponent.
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i still hope hesdy gerges vs badr
Spong – saki rematch
Zimmerman – karaev (eventhough they also train to gether)
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by robinhorobson on Sep 9, 2010 5:17 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
7 out of 8
1) Alistair Overeem vs. Ben Edwards
2) Jerome Le Banner vs. Kyotaro
3) Peter Aerts vs. Ewerton Teixeira
4) Ruslan Karaev vs. Tyrone Spong
5) Errol Zimmerman vs. Daniel Ghita
6) Semmy Schilt vs. Hesdy Gerges
7) Badr Hari vs. Freddy Kemayo
are all of those confirmed because than i would be really dissapointed
Ony spong/karaev en maybe zimmerman/ghita would be a competetive fight
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by robinhorobson on Sep 9, 2010 2:34 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It’s can a bit confusing…
So there are 16 fighters who take part in this event. Those 16 get here by one of 3 ways:
1. The Final 8 fighters from last year’s GP get an automatic entry into this year’s 16. This year that includes 7 fighters – Hari, Overeem, Schilt, Zimmerman, Teixeira, Karaev, Le Banner. The 8th, Remy Bonjasky, is sitting out because he is recovering from injury.
2. Winners of regional GP qualifying tournaments over the year get in. This year there were 2, one in Europe won by Kemayo, and one in Australia, won by Edwards.
3. The rest are determined by wild card slots, which basically means a combo of whoever K-1 wants (mainly) and fan voting.
This year, they gave K-1 HW champion Kyotaro a slot because of his title, so add him to the 7, plus Edwards and Kemayo and you have 10 of the 16 determined, so 6 more will be decided by wild card slots.
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by Fraser Coffeen on Sep 10, 2010 7:04 AM EDT up reply actions
Do you know is Ignashov being considered still>?
by Oleg Alexandrov on Sep 10, 2010 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Iggy
It’s all rumors at this point, but the latest I heard is that he was considered, but is out due to injury.
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by Fraser Coffeen on Sep 12, 2010 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions
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