Anybody watching? GP Tournament Bouts: • Former PFC Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko battles PFC Grand Prix 2001 Champion Mark Coleman • Interim PFC Heavyweight Champion Rodrigo Nogueira squares off against Hirotaka Yokoi of RINGS Japan • Croatian kickboxer Mirko Filipovic takes on Hammer House wrestler Kevin Randleman • Golden Glory fighter Heath Herring Pancrase veteran Yoshiki Takahashi meet in the ring • Chute Boxe fighter Murilo Rua goes toe-to-toe with Russian Top Team fighter Sergei Kharitonov • Inoki professional wrestler Naoya Ogawa faces K-1 kickboxer Stefan Leko • Giant Brazilian professional wrestler Paulo Cesar Silva meets former sumo wrestling champion Henry Armstrong Miller • S.L.O Kickboxing wrestler Gan McGee and Semmy Schlit combat one another for a spot to move on in the tournament. Tough first round match ups for Coleman and Randleman. I like Emilianenko to win it all. EDIT, oh yeah, I forgot, SPECIAL BONUS SUPERFIGHT: Francis3422 vs. some kid
I will say that I watch a K-1 fight the other day when Bob Sapp fought Ernesto Hoost. That was a good battle. It looked like Hoost had Sapp in that first round after kicking his leg so many times and breaking a couple ribs. Sapp got knocked down and I didn't think he could get up, but he did. Then Sapp came back in round 2 with some great punches. Hoost mounted a small comeback, but then Sapp cornered him and the ref stepped in. I thought the ref stepped in a bit too early. What is the latest on the Mike Tyson / Bob Sapp match? I saw that Tyson is supposed to do a K-1 fight soon, but his opponent wasn't Sapp. After watching the Hoost fight, I don't think Sapp has a prayer against Tyson. Sapp is too undisciplined. He throws wild punches and is very slow. I was also disappointed in Sapp's ability to take a punch. Hoost stunned him many times with punches and it just paralyzed Sapp. You do that against Tyson, and it's lights out.
That was the second Hoost-Sapp match. The first one was even more one sided in favor of Sapp. The second probably was stopped too early but K1 likes to favor Sapp. Tyson will never fight Sapp -- it's perennially rumored but will almost never happen as he can get a much bigger payday in boxing and doesn't have to deal with low kicks.
im always irked by how UFC is marketing themselves as PRIDE, being that 1) in society, the word pride is often associated with gay pride and 2) the sport does involve half naked men manhandling each other. really makes me wonder wth they are thinking.
