Category — Moo-ee tie

Things start to go wrong at around the 1:00 mark and then literally slip from bad to worse.

There should’ve been Olympic diving judges ringside at Bob Sapp’s latest kickboxing match in Sweden. He takes a punch worse than Brock Lesnar.

This round starts out with two guys trading heavy kicks and punches. Then it gets crazy. Then it gets silly. Then back to crazy. Definitely a Muay Thai fight unlike any you’ve ever seen.

Here’s a quick hit, er, kick: Dutch kickboxing giant Badr Hari soccer kicks his downed opponent, Hedsy Gerges, at the It’s Showtime event on the weekend. Hari has since apologized and has announced he’ll be taking a break from fighting for a while. Might I suggest he roll a fat one and chill the fuck out?

It ain’t New Year’s Eve without a crazy Japanese super-card. Thursday’s Dynamite!! 2009: DREAM vs. WVR (note the twin exclamation points!) promises eighteen K-1 and MMA bouts with fighters from DREAM and World Victory Road’s Sengoku series.

I’m not sure what the hell Gegard Mousasi is thinking taking on Gary Goodridge in the night’s co-headliner. Not that the Dutch fighter should have much trouble with a past-his-prime GG, I’d just rather he focus on being Strikeforce light heavyweight champ. Likewise, I’d rather Alistair Overeem get back to defending his Strikeforce heavyweight title instead of fighting Kazuyuki Fujita.

The other headliner is a K-1 match-up between Andy Souwer and Masato, which is supposed to be Masato’s career swansong. Other notables include Shinya Aoki vs. Mizuto Hirota, Yosuke Nishijima vs. Ray Sefo, Melvin Manhoef vs. Kazuo Misaki, Masanori Kanehara vs. Norofumi “Kid” Yamamoto, Akihiro Gono vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai and DREAM’s Super Hulk open-weight tournament finale between Ikuhisa Minowa and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou.

A day late and a dollar short but for what it’s worth, here’s the results from yesterday’s 2009 K-1 MAX tournament final from Yokohama, Japan.

Tourney favourite Giorgio Petrosyan lived up to the hype with a decision win over two-time K-1 MAX champion Andy Souwer to win the title. He will next face Masato at the Dynamite! New Year’s Eve card. Petrosyan made quick work of Yuya Yamamoto in the first semi-final with a decisive second-round KO. In the second semi-final bout, two-time K-1 MAX champions Souwer and Buakaw Por Pramuk battled to a three-round draw, with Souwer squeaking out a split decision in the extra rounds.

The tournament reserve bout pitted the 2006 and 2007 K-1 MAX Japan champion, Yoshihiro Sato, against the 2008 champion, Yasuhiro Kido, with Sato walking away with the KO win in the second round.

The apple doesn’t fall far from Melvin Manhoef’s tree. Check out these videos of the K-1 kickboxing champ’s five-year-old son, Million Manhoef. Crazy.

The Sherdog story on Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic was passed along to me by Joel Gerson over at Revolution MMA in Toronto. Turns out that former K-1 champ Michael McDonald will be stopping by RevMMA on Saturday to teach some Muay Thai classes. McDonald scored a first-round TKO over Cro Cop at the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix.