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K-1 MAX Update: K-1 World MAX 2011 Japan Tournament Press Conference Thursday
A press conference is set to be held on Thursday, at 7:00pm JST (6:00am EST) to announce the match ups for the K-1 World MAX 2011 Japan Tournament Final event on September 25th. K-1 will be streaming the press conference live on Ustream, with Sadaharu Tanikawa handling the announcements. The...
Shinya Aoki v. Yuichiro Nagashima at Dynamite!!
More crazy fight news for Dynamite!!, though it looks like this one is actually happening and not just a rumor. Daniel Herbertson at MMAFighting reports that Shinya Aoki will face the K-1 MAX 2010 Japan champion Yuichiro Nagashima as part of the year end show. With Aoki being a Dream champion and...
K-1 MAX Grand Prix 2010 Takes Tentative Step Forward
For K-1's newly formed 63kg division (which is now sorely in need of a catchy "MAX"-style name), Monday's Grand Prix event couldn't have gone better. The show was packed with highlights, from a fight of the year finale, to Yamato's KO-heavy championship run, to Saiga's upset win, to action packed...
K-1 MAX Results: A New King is Crowned, Knocking Out All in His Path
K-1 has finally gotten exactly what they wanted, and that is a Japanese hero for them to raise up and proclaim the best. The -63kgs tournament was an experiment by K-1, a chance for them to get some fresh talent into the mix and dip into the thriving lightweight Japanese scene that they had...
K-1 MAX 2010 Grand Prix Limps Into Action This Monday
The first half of the calendar year is always a bit slow in the world of K-1. Because of their Grand Prix schedule, K-1 shows are very heavy in the back half of the year, with these earlier months typically providing little more than a nice setting of the table. This year, that sense of waiting...
Yuichiro Nagashima: Winning the K-1 World MAX Grand Prix for Japan
World Cup fever is in full effect the world over right now, so of course it is impossible for it not to bleed over into combat sports a bit. Yuichiro Nagashima held an open workout for the press today where he appealed to himself be a goalkeeper for Japan after their failure in the World Cup,...
