Am I the only one who was impressed with Vitali's kickboxing? He looks very agile for a guy his size and he's basically contesting the match with kicks and holding his own until the KO. When you realize that this isn't his best sport, it's pretty impressive.
I think the "letdown" is only for fans that had the distorted view that certain fighters could never, ever be KOd--even with the perfect shot. Vitali has a great beard, maybe 2nd only to Tua's in this generation of HWs. But now I can find a YouTube clip of both of them getting single-shot KOd wearing headgear. It happens folks.
Am I the only one who was impressed with Vitali's kickboxing? He looks very agile for a guy his size and he's basically contesting the match with kicks and holding his own until the KO. When you realize that this isn't his best sport, it's pretty impressive.
I think the "letdown" is only for fans that had the distorted view that certain fighters could never, ever be KOd--even with the perfect shot. Vitali has a great beard, maybe 2nd only to Tua's in this generation of HWs. But now I can find a YouTube clip of both of them getting single-shot KOd wearing headgear. It happens folks.
I always tell people that the right punch knocks anyone out and that "chins" in the physical sense are a myth.
Am I the only one who was impressed with Vitali's kickboxing? He looks very agile for a guy his size and he's basically contesting the match with kicks and holding his own until the KO. When you realize that this isn't his best sport, it's pretty impressive.
I think the "letdown" is only for fans that had the distorted view that certain fighters could never, ever be KOd--even with the perfect shot. Vitali has a great beard, maybe 2nd only to Tua's in this generation of HWs. But now I can find a YouTube clip of both of them getting single-shot KOd wearing headgear. It happens folks.
1992 was a bad year for guys known for their iron chins in the professional ranks to wear headgear.
1992 was a bad year for guys known for their iron chins in the professional ranks to wear headgear.
I believe this was actually 1991 (at the World Championships at Sydney). The pair nearly met at the 1992 Olympic final but Tua lost to David Izonritei (who Tua knocked out as a pro) in the semis.
To be fair here as well, Tua was a relatively inexperienced 19 year old who'd only appeared on the world amateur stage a year or so earlier while Savon was in his prime... a 25 year old monster who had already won two world titles, two Pan-Am games and two Central American and Caribbean Games.
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The fight with Reid doesn't look like a proper kickboxing match; it looks like a Tae Kwon Do match. I could definitely be wrong.
It's W.A.K.O style light-contact kickboxing... almost different enough to be classed a completely different sport to current K-1 style kickboxing, let alone Muay Thai.
The closest thing to it is probably the old American kickboxing. Here's Dennis Alexio winning his first world title. Not that these bouts were 12 rounds rather than the three that kickboxing normally is today:
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