Help me get into K-1

[Tawren 0]

I'm going to buy a copy of the recent K-1 PPV, Grand Prix 2003. Is K-1 a good shoot group? What other shows should I look at? Stand-out fighters? Specific rules?

 

MMA obsessers, guide away...

[Tim Cooke 0]

K-1 is Kickboxing.

 

For tournaments, they use 3-3 minute rounds. For non tournament super fights, they use 5-3 minute rounds.

 

The Sapp/Hoost fights from 2002 (10/5 and 12/6) are fun, if just to watch Hoost dominate Sapp until the cover up to keep Sapp face occurs each time.

 

There is a nice Andy Hug special, actually two out there, one covering full fights from 1992-1995 and another covering clips of every fight from 1993-2000.

 

Tim

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I've been watching for a bit, but I'm new to K-1. I have a question though; are the Hoost-Sapp fights worked? I can't imagine a guy like Hoost losing to Sapp twice, and I'm sure most others can't either. Especially since Cro Cop handled Sapp in short order.

[razazteca 0]

It's glorified kickboxing, if they used Muay Thai rules than I might care but from what I have seen I do not like it.

[AmericanDragon 0]

I've been watching for a bit, but I'm new to K-1. I have a question though; are the Hoost-Sapp fights worked? I can't imagine a guy like Hoost losing to Sapp twice, and I'm sure most others can't either. Especially since Cro Cop handled Sapp in short order.

I'm pretty new to K1 too but from what I've seen, Hoost just basically covers up when someone is throwing a flurry of punches at him. He just waits for them to stop instead of countering. It worked on everyone else but when sapp got him in the corner, it didn't.

[Tim Cooke 0]

Both Hoost/Sapp matches weren't worked, they just were able to come up with lousy ref stoppages to make Sapp advance. Hoost was killing Sapp most of the time. Sapp is a lot better in MMA rules matches.

Tim