Does anyone follow Kyotaro?

He was much better suited to K1. I stopped paying attention to him after his second gift over Nobuhiro Ishida.

 

I would like to see a match between Kyotaro and either Tysone Spong or Alexander Povetkin.

 

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As for Povetkin, he's best left aside from the conversation; even the Price version of him destroys either of the kickboxing vets.

 

Didnt know he did boxing as well, only knew him from K-1. Dont know him well but remember the name and seeing some of his fights. Man I miss K-1. Especially K-1 Max. K-1 still alive, well, kinda, but totally different owners, production, all that is just very much changed. I absolutely loved K-1 Max, the days when Buakaw, Souwer, Masato, Zambidis, Kyshenko, Drago, Yamamoto, Kraus and Kalakoda (and others) fought out there, made for some very fun fights.

Speaking of Zambidis, made an old highlight video of him years and years ago with my old youtube account. Just checked it, had almost million views. Damn.

Glory has been decent kickboxing promotion. Lion Fight has pretty fun fights too, although its with thai boxing rules

 

I know him, but havent seen to many of his matches. I remember he lost to Gegard Mousassi. That's about all.

 

I was a massive Petrosyan fanboy in those days. I always hoped for (and yet at the same time secretly kind of dreaded ) a Buakaw rematch.

 

Dude, he looked a lot better as a kickboxer! What happened?

 

Michael Jordan was a mediocre baseball player.

We can't just expect guys that are world class in one sport to also distinguish themselves in a different one.

 

There is a universe of more similarities in boxing and kick boxing than is basketball and baseball.

 

And yet a universe more differences as well. Or else you'd see guys successfully transitioning between them and straddling both as world class operators with a lot more frequency.

 

Spong ices Price though.

 

Pretty decent fighter at K-1

 

I think he'd do better if he boiled down to LHW-CW.

 

Kyotaro is a reltively small heavyweight by today's standards . . . .I think a match between him and Oleksandr Usyk would be a great promotion as Usyk inches up in weight later this year.