Favorite Kickers & Kicks

[Trabaho]

I apsolutely love Remy Bonjasky and Buakaw.

I love how they use quantity and activity.

Mirko is the opposite. He snipes.

I love it more when they just keep kicking quality kicks and wear down and damage their oponent. Remy would have 5 high kicks blocked then the 9th would KO the guy.

Plus Remy is the only world class guy I can think of who would win based of kicks. He threw more kicks then punches which is rare.

I also loved Kohiruimakis front kick to the face, he threw it as a ko shot.

I love front kicks to the body. Also love roundhouse kicks, especially high and low.

Front kick to the body is not that often utilized. You can annoy the ish out of people with it.

Feitosa was also a crazy specialist with his lead high kick that he didn't wind up.


So fav kick of mine would be rear front kick to body and rear high kick. After that rear low kick.

 

[Bullitt68]

He almost never did it in MMA, but I used to love when Mirko would use his right leg to throw front kicks and side kicks to the body. Even early in his K-1 days, people knew that the LHK was a threat, but he mixed things up nicely by using his right leg a lot more.







And then I loved the way that Ernesto Hoost would shred the back legs of southpaws with low kicks. Neither Mirko nor Andy Hug could stop Hoost from chewing up their back legs, to the point where in their first fight in the 1996 GP, Hoost stopped Mirko with low kicks to his back leg.

 

[DoctorTaco]

Hoost’s low kicks were legendary.

 

[Trabaho]

He almost never did it in MMA, but I used to love when Mirko would use his right leg to throw front kicks and side kicks to the body. Even early in his K-1 days, people knew that the LHK was a threat, but he mixed things up nicely by using his right leg a lot more.







And then I loved the way that Ernesto Hoost would shred the back legs of southpaws with low kicks. Neither Mirko nor Andy Hug could stop Hoost from chewing up their back legs, to the point where in their first fight in the 1996 GP, Hoost stopped Mirko with low kicks to his back leg.

Great post. Honestly I remember Mirko limping to the Hoost fight, I think Feitosa already damaged his leg and it was a tournament. Other win by Host was Mirko having a broken rib and getting body punched, if I remmeber correctly. Then the last fight they had, non tournament, it went to a extra round proving Mirko is on a similar level. However the score reads 3-0 Hoost. But everyone has their losses at peak K1, cause top guys would non stop fight each other.

 

[Bullitt68]

Great post. Honestly I remember Mirko limping to the Hoost fight, I think Feitosa already damaged his leg and it was a tournament. Other win by Host was Mirko having a broken rib and getting body punched, if I remmeber correctly. Then the last fight they had, non tournament, it went to a extra round proving Mirko is on a similar level. However the score reads 3-0 Hoost. But everyone has their losses at peak K1, cause top guys would non stop fight each other.

In the 1996 GP, Mirko beat Jerome Le Banner. Hoost just chopped him down, plain and simple. (Mirko's fight with Feitosa was in the 2000 Fukuoka GP, in which Mirko injured his own foot by low kicking the fuck out of Hiromi Amada. He then hobbled his way into the finals match with Mike Bernardo, who just had to kick Mirko's injured foot once and Mirko dropped immediately.) Then in the 1999 GP, Mirko did get hurt in the course of the night and once Hoost started going to the body, it was the beginning of the end. And then yeah, in their third and final match in the 2000 GP, it was extremely uneventful, with Mirko trying to eke out a decision win without having to engage too much, but he still couldn't overcome Hoost. No shame in that, though, as Hoost was if not the best around at the time then second best to Peter Aerts.

 

[Trabaho]

In the 1996 GP, Mirko beat Jerome Le Banner. Hoost just chopped him down, plain and simple. (Mirko's fight with Feitosa was in the 2000 Fukuoka GP, in which Mirko injured his own foot by low kicking the fuck out of Hiromi Amada. He then hobbled his way into the finals match with Mike Bernardo, who just had to kick Mirko's injured foot once and Mirko dropped immediately.) Then in the 1999 GP, Mirko did get hurt in the course of the night and once Hoost started going to the body, it was the beginning of the end. And then yeah, in their third and final match in the 2000 GP, it was extremely uneventful, with Mirko trying to eke out a decision win without having to engage too much, but he still couldn't overcome Hoost. No shame in that, though, as Hoost was if not the best around at the time then second best to Peter Aerts.

Right. Bernardo got that free win.

That Amanda match was funny too, he threw a milion low kicks, then dropped him with the first unexpected high kick

 

[Bullitt68]

Right. Bernardo got that free win.

And weird kind of reversal for Mirko, as he got through Sam Greco in the 1999 GP in similar fashion, busting his foot by checking a low kick and then dropping him by kicking that injured foot.

That Amanda match was funny too, he threw a milion low kicks, then dropped him with the first unexpected high kick

It was crazy how Mirko was always able to land that kick, even in K-1 before he developed such a devastating liver kick. As soon as he blasted Bernardo with it in 1999, everyone was hip to it, but he still managed to land it over and over again, and always in impressive fashion. He beats Bernardo's attempted parry, he goes over Amada's guard, he avoids Yanagisawa's outstretched arm, he tricks Hunt and Bonjasky into expecting the left straight instead of the LHK...

 

[Hotora86]

 

[MilkManUK]

Andy Hug for me.

 

[Trabaho]

And weird kind of reversal for Mirko, as he got through Sam Greco in the 1999 GP in similar fashion, busting his foot by checking a low kick and then dropping him by kicking that injured foot.



It was crazy how Mirko was always able to land that kick, even in K-1 before he developed such a devastating liver kick. As soon as he blasted Bernardo with it in 1999, everyone was hip to it, but he still managed to land it over and over again, and always in impressive fashion. He beats Bernardo's attempted parry, he goes over Amada's guard, he avoids Yanagisawa's outstretched arm, he tricks Hunt and Bonjasky into expecting the left straight instead of the LHK...

A check is not a fluke at least to me. It hurts to check too and you gotta catch them. Bernardo got a banged up opponent served on a platter. But GPs got back ups, so it's on Mirko to pull out. But Mirko used to be a crazy fighting machine lol

 

[Boomb]

Brazilian or the "question mark" kick, was always my favourite. And sparring with someone that knows how to throw it was always hell.

 

[DoctorTaco]

Brazilian or the "question mark" kick, was always my favourite. And sparring with someone that knows how to throw it was always hell.

it’s rare to see someone generate KO power with it. That’s terrifying

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

So many.
Gokhan Saki for landing low kicks in short range non stop.
Samart for effortless side teep. Modern days Tawanchai is amazing at that.
Buakaw for picture perfect round kicjs.
Alaverdi for super efficient front kicks.
Superlek and Panpayak for speed.

 

[DoctorTaco]

Gokhan Saki Thumped those kicks home. Made me wince watching at home

 

[biscuitsbrah]

I like doumbes low kicks and activity.