Japanese Scene Year in Review

[shinyAoki]

For those interested, I'm doing a 2012 recap of Japanese kickboxing on Liverkick, highlighting the Prospects, Upsets, Events, Promotions, Knockouts, Fights and Fighters of the year. Started it today with prospects of the year, then doing 1 post each day, ending with Fighter of the Year on January 1st or 2nd, depending on what plans I have for NYE. Feel free to leave comments or questions about the fighters or rankings. by rankings I mean which ones I chose as #1. I just did the winner, then listed each one after in no particular order

Here's the prospect post
http://www.liverkick.com/index.php?o...=37:kickboxing

[shinyAoki]

Upsets of the year
http://www.liverkick.com/index.php?o...et-of-the-year

[Snubnoze707]

Nice work!

[shinyAoki]

Event of the year
http://www.liverkick.com/index.php?o...nt-of-the-year

[BugsFunny]

good work dude

[shinyAoki]

Promotion of the year
http://liverkick.com/index.php?optio...-year&Itemid=1

[shinyAoki]

Knockout of the year, complete with videos and pictures
http://www.liverkick.com/index.php?o...=37:kickboxing

[Brocktirement]

japanese scene really sucks thus........detoriating with each passing year

[shinyAoki]

Originally Posted by Brocktirement

japanese scene really sucks thus........detoriating with each passing year

umm... not really. just because they don't produce top level 70kg fighters doesn't mean their scene is deteriorating

Fight of the year
http://www.liverkick.com/index.php?o...=37:kickboxing

I'll do fighter of the year tomorrow

[Viva Italia]

No other country has a better overall scene at 63kg and below aside from Thailand than Japan.