Old But Gold !! Best K1 Fighters Moments With Awesome Knockouts

Fair enough, the sun is handy, but from a strictly sporting point of view the best thing ever to come our way from Japan is K-1. It's a combat sport folks, and it's about to take over the planet. Almost more important than what it includes is what it removes. The brainchild of Master Kazuyoshi Ishii, who staged the first ever Grand Prix in Tokyo just eight years ago, K-1 it is now the biggest spectator sport in Japan because it is designed to be awesomely tough to practice but thrillingly easy to watch. With referees ruthlessly preventing any holding and judges awarding points not just for successful hits but also for aggressive intent, bouts rarely turn into the sort of boring stalemates that boxing so often produces. What's more, the fact that matches only last five three-minute rounds means fighters can go at it with gusto and we are spared the sight of great warriors either standing off in the early rounds to save energy for later or whacking each other stupid for fifteen minutes before stumbling through the final rounds like drunken oafs. Instead we get five rounds of high-tech, full-on battling with all six permitted weapons (both hands, feet and knees - head-butting and elbow strikes are forbidden). It's brutal and unrelenting but this is not street-fighting or some kind of glorified King of the Tinkers contest. This is a discipline, or rather a spectacular synergy of several disciplines. Fighters may march into the ring under monikers such as 'The Beast" and "The Red Scorpion" but they are not to be confused with Stone Cold Steve Austin or The Undertaker: this is not the WWE.