Biggest tournament for kickboxing?

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Hey guys, i am pretty new to MT/KB i just wanted to know which league was the best and what there pays were like?
 
K-1 grand prix is a pretty big tournament but the biggest I'm not sure. I don't know many kickboxing tournaments.
 
The biggest promotion nowadays is Glory.
K1 used to be the biggest, but due to mismanagement and loss of interest by the Japanese audience it is a shadow of its former self.

Other kickboxing promotions are SuperKombat and Enfusion.

Personally I like to watch muay thai. Keep an eye on:
Thai Fight, Max MuayThai (new promotion founded by Buakaw), Yokkao and of course watch fights in Lumpinee stadium Bangkok. LiveMuayThaiGuy on Youtube is posting the most recent fights.
 
Glory is the biggest with most of the talent nowadays. In terms of pay they don't disclose much, aside from the grand prize.
Back a few years ago it was all K-1.
 
Νow Glory is the best.

K-1 used to be the best until last year.

Showtime used to bet at the top, but Glory bought it.

Superkombat and Enfusion are remarkable European promotions.
 
TMBmate said:
What are the average kick boxers pays like?
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In Europe, for a fighter without a huge name? $2,000 per fight. Most of the somewhat name fighters are pulling about 15,000 - 20,000 per fight. The bigger name guys in Glory are pulling a lot, but there are only a few pulling in over 100,000 per fight, most are close to retirement.
 
DW HKL said:
In Europe, for a fighter without a huge name? $2,000 per fight. Most of the somewhat name fighters are pulling about 15,000 - 20,000 per fight. The bigger name guys in Glory are pulling a lot, but there are only a few pulling in over 100,000 per fight, most are close to retirement.
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I always wondered about this. do you know what kind of sponsorship money any of these guys pull in?
 
I guess you can add Thai Fight

But I see them more like exhibition matches...

If I had a chance to manage Thai Fight I'd have Thais fighting Thai and treating the thing more serious than what they are doing now.
 
Troy4141 said:
I always wondered about this. do you know what kind of sponsorship money any of these guys pull in?
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Back in the good old K-1 days guys like Sapp, Hoost, Aerts etc. got huge Japanese sponsorship (starting from 50k to 250k per sponsorship/tv-commercials)
Hari's sponsor-contract with Kia was rumoured to be in the range of 500k a year. Nowadays sponsorship in kickboxing is really peanuts compared with the K-1 days. Tyrone Spong, Buakaw, Petrosyan got some decent sponsorship though.
 
manlyseaeagle said:
1976-1983 PKA:wink:

in truth Kickboxing well never be big or be like it was in Japan etc as there are too many rule's/promotion's.
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Not really. The only big promotion putting in work in the US is Glory and its rules are pretty much in line with other promotions like K-1 and Superkombat. Other than that there is Muay Thai which is a sport in itself.

There were more rule discrepancies back in those old "American Kickboxing" days...
 
Snubnoze707 said:
Not really. The only big promotion putting in work in the US is Glory and its rules are pretty much in line with other promotions like K-1 and Superkombat. Other than that there is Muay Thai which is a sport in itself.

There were more rule discrepancies back in those old "American Kickboxing" days...
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Do you think ? I would love to see a central Kickboxing comp i.e. like the old WKA who tried to bring the Full Contact fighter's on the same scene as the Muay Thai lot or just 2 rules with one being the old PKA FC rules and the other being full Muay Thai.
 
manlyseaeagle said:
Do you think ? I would love to see a central Kickboxing comp i.e. like the old WKA who tried to bring the Full Contact fighter's on the same scene as the Muay Thai lot or just 2 rules with one being the old PKA FC rules and the other being full Muay Thai.
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Glory is bringing in guys like Randy Blake. Those full contact guys are just going to have to adapt to the currently accepted Kickboxing rule set. Otherwise it's off to Muay Thai rules which is an even deeper learning curve for them.
 
So to compare good old K-1 with the current "kickboxing force" Glory I would so say Glory got a awesome start in their first 18 months but to reach the same level K-1 had in the late 90s early 00s they still need alot of things to improve. But on the other hand K-1 (starting from K-1's foundation in 1993) never had this kind of global exposure as Glory now already have plus Glory's US TV deal could get them settled to have a final breakthrough in the US market (which will be really hard to accomplish)

K-1 events in Japan were really awesome and gigantic ( I don't think Glory will ever have a 75k stadium packed) but that's the nostalgic past, "Glory is the Future"
 
Snubnoze707 said:
Glory is bringing in guys like Randy Blake. Those full contact guys are just going to have to adapt to the currently accepted Kickboxing rule set. Otherwise it's off to Muay Thai rules which is an even deeper learning curve for them.
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I liked the WCL concept as it had a bit of Point's Karate background with old school Full Contact pant's but also people with K-1/MT/Boxing background's.

What would you think be the perfect Kickboxing rules which you bring all fighter's from all stand up Martial art's.
 
Boran said:
The biggest promotion nowadays is Glory.
K1 used to be the biggest, but due to mismanagement and loss of interest by the Japanese audience it is a shadow of its former self.

Other kickboxing promotions are SuperKombat and Enfusion.

Personally I like to watch muay thai. Keep an eye on:
Thai Fight, Max MuayThai (new promotion founded by Buakaw), Yokkao and of course watch fights in Lumpinee stadium Bangkok. LiveMuayThaiGuy on Youtube is posting the most recent fights.
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