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Overeem-Edwards, Le Banner-Kyotaro Announced for K-1 Final 16

BigKahuna — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:05:49 GMT

K-1 President Sadaharu Tanigawa revealed two fights for the K-1 World GP FINAL 16 to be held on October 2 in Seoul, South Korea.

Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem will face Ben Edwards who tore through this year's Oceania GP, scoring three first-round knockouts and Jerome Le Banner, who recently claimed the WPMF Muaythai Super Heavyweight World title will take on current K-1 Heavyweight Champion Keijiro "Kyotaro" Maeda.

Bouts for the K-1 MAX Final 16, which is to be held the following day also in Seoul are to be announced this weekend and more Super-Heavyweight GP bouts are to be announced next Tuesday.

Tanigawa was this week quoted as saying that the much needed financial partnership with Chinese investment bank PUJI has been pushed forward to begin at the end of September and so PUJI money will be supporting the Korean Final 16 events.

A fan vote is currently unde rway to fill the remaining six spots in the K-1 World GP Final 16. Although the results of the fan vote have not yet been announced, Tanigawa noted that he was surprised at how many votes Romanian Dancing with the Stars participant Catalin Morosanut and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski have received.

K-1 World GP FINAL 16, October 2, 2010 at Olympic Gymnasium 1st in Seoul, South Korea

Alistair Overeem vs Ben Edwards
Jerome Le Banner vs Keijiro "Kyotaro" Maeda

Participating
Semmy Schilt
Badr Hari
Errol Zimmermann
Ewerton Teixeira
Ruslan Karaev
Freddy Kemayo

Remy Bonjasky is qualified to participate in the Final 16. but is unable to take his spot due to his ongoing eye injury.

Krush.10! The Urabe Bros Versus Champions

BigKahuna — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:53:02 GMT

Krush.10 will take place on September 20th and what a card it is.

In the first of the two main events K-1 Koshien 2009 champion and undefeated 17 year old Masaaki Noiri will take on 2010 K-1 Minus 63 Japan Tournament participant Hirotaka Urabe.

Hirotaka lost his first round tournament fight against Toshiki Taniyama but has since got back on the winning track with a victory at Krush-EX ~Next Generation Fight 2010 vol.2~ in June.

Noiri has fought 3 times since winning K-1 Koshien 2009 last NYE. All of them have been outside of K-1 and two of them are KO victories. His second fight of 2010, against Yosuke Sol-de-tigre, is available on YouTube�

The second main event of the evening is a very important fight between 2010 K-1 Minus 63 Japan Tournament champion Tetsuya Yamato and the younger of the Urabe bros, Koya Urabe.

This will be Yamato�s first fight since winning the tournament. Koya did not lose in said tournament but was not one of the chosen 8 for the finals after the first round. He did however win his reserve fight at the finals and this will be his first fight since the tournament as well.

Also fighting on the card are fighters such as Tae Kwon Do stylist Keiji Ozaki and crazy Tatsuya Ishiguro making his return to a real Kick event.

Very good stuff once again at Krush.
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How to Follow 2010 World Wrestling Championships

nhbnews — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:01:40 GMT

Live video from 2010 World Wrestling Championships in Moscow (Russian page, may require plug-in) http://wrestrus.ru/page/online

USA Wrestling's live audio from 2010 World Wrestling Championships
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/2010-w...-championships

USA Wrestling Special Section on 2010 World Wrestling Championships
http://www.themat.com/specialevents/...?EventID=23959

2010 Wrestling World Championships Thread

BigKahuna — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:45:48 GMT

http://www.fila-wrestling.com/moscow10/

September 6-12 2010