K-1 WORLD MAX 2008 - Japan Tournament - Fight Card

[Grabaka]

Ameba presents K-1 WORLD MAX 2008 -Japan Tournament-
February 2, 2008
Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan

Tournament Matches
-Andy Ologun vs. Yuya Yamamoto
-Keiji Oazaka vs. Yasuhiro Kido
-Tatsuji vs. Hiroyuki Maeda
-HAYATO vs. Ryuji

Super Fights
-Artur Kyshenko vs. Shingo Garyu
-Buakaw Por. Pramuk vs. Yoshihiro Sato

Tournament Reserve Fight
-Yasuhito Shirasu vs. Kozo Mitsuyama

K-1 World Youth 2008 (18 and under)
-HIROYA vs. Robby Hageman
-Shota Shimada vs. Roy Tan
-Kizaemon Saiga vs. Bappie "Baby Face" Tetteroo


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[Easye1982]

Impressive so far, lets hope that everyone will be able to fight by the time its show time.

[Uber]

Buakaw...always exciting that one.

[Grabaka]

^yeah he hasn't looked so great his last couple of fights though. He won last night by a razor thin decision. It's a fight most thought he'd easily win too.

[valheruking]

Yeah, he got rocked at the end of the extra round, but it should have been a unanimous decision really, don't know how that one judge gave it to Sato.

[Grabaka]

^I agree with your take on the judges card, but you have to admit that it just doesn't look like the same ol' Buakaw.

[valheruking]

Yeah you're right, he's definitely lost the certain air of invincibility he had back when he destroyed Souwer and Masato and then lost a close decision to Souwer the next year. There have been certain signs of weakness lately that you wouldn't have expected before.

I really do think we'll see him back to his old self though, **** he hasn't even really lost any ground, he just seems to have been mixing it up with his hands more recently when his strength is kicking and came up against a tough opponent in Masato who gave it his all, and Sato is a great fighter, been the second best Japanese fighter for a while now and he was expected by many to give Buakaw a hard fought decision, he caught him in the end of the fight when Buakaw dropped his hands a little and staggered him, not a big deal really, he'll just have to remember to not get complacent near the end of his next fight and learn from it.