Bob Sap and Ernesto Hoost

[MC Paul Barman]

That is just silly. Prime Sapp almost destroyed best HW fighter at the time (Big Nog) and beat
Hoost (Best kickboxer) twice. Early 2000s HW boxing scene is just sad. In top 10, you got shot Tyson, shot
Holyfield, John Ruiz (lol), Glass-jaw Wladimir Klitchko, and fat and about-to-retire Lewis on top.
Sapp would have destroyed most of the top 50. (Hell, maybe some of the top 10 if he got to
abuse the rule like against Hoost who know?)

It's impressive how wrong you are.
It's like your ignorance on things is only eclipsed by your confidence.

 

[DastardlyMass]

Sapp v Hoost was an embarrassment for K-1.
Did more to hurt that sport venue than anything else.
A multiple K-1 champ loses a fight to a big, strong beast who has minimal fighting skill. That just can't look good. Now maybe if the fight was reffed better then it would have had a different outcome.
But it made K-1 look like a fucking circus.

how exactly did it hurt the sport? sapp took the sport to new highs with his circus act and for real brought it into the mainstream japenese culture.

 

[Wrestler160]

Still surprised at this outcome after all these years.

 

[Farbeyondthesun]

Sapp was allowed to blatantly break the rules in both fights. Disgraceful.... The Japanese loved Sapp and were perfectly fine with him fouling nonstop. Hoost beats Sapp 100/100 in a fight with proper officiating.

 

[punkmother]

Sapp was allowed to blatantly break the rules in both fights. Disgraceful.... The Japanese loved Sapp and were perfectly fine with him fouling nonstop. Hoost beats Sapp 100/100 in a fight with proper officiating.

well that's because he was going to throw the fights against japanese heroes in the end.

 

[UWanaPlayDaGame]

Sapp v Hoost was an embarrassment for K-1.
Did more to hurt that sport venue than anything else.
A multiple K-1 champ loses a fight to a big, strong beast who has minimal fighting skill. That just can't look good. Now maybe if the fight was reffed better then it would have had a different outcome.
But it made K-1 look like a fucking circus.

several others legit K-1 fighters beat Bob Sapp up to the point where he lost the will to fight.

Hoost just had a dumb approach to the fight and fell victim of the japanese morbid obsession with giant people. every other elite kickboxer that Sapp faced beat him, some literally made him cry in the ring.

the whole thing only proved that skill beats size more often than not and that elite HW kickboxers are dangerous people.

 

[Kanka]

Lol. It's easy to win fights when refs let you break the rules

 

[sparkles]

Hoost cleary underrated Sapp the first time, he said how he was going to hurt him like never before, that he couldn't fight etc. He did put Sapp in pain with his lowkicks, but as soon as Sapp had Hoost hurt, he was on a cloud and pounded him in the corner till he dropped. Size and power do matter as Hoost also experienced in his match vs Greco in 1998.

Hoost is a great fighter, hut he can be beaten with power and being very agressive. Hoost was furious after the first fight smashing his locker room.

The second fight was even better, Hoost winning the fight and sticking to his gameplan using his kicks. But then it happened, his proud took over and he wanted to box with Sapp and that changed the fight. Instead of winning the fight with his lows, the ref stepped in when Hoost was cornered.

Sapp would not have been able to fight another round, but it's irrelevant at this point as it's in the books as a TKO.

A black spot in Hoost his carreer, professionally and personally, especially as their third meeting, chance for revenge, was cancelled.

Anyway, great and exciting fights.

 

[Vil7]

It did look bad when Hoost lost to him. People like to bring that up when they try to discredit kickboxing. They conveniently like to ignore that Cro Cop destroyed Sapp though.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

I wish both Sapp and Semmy had stayed in MMA and kept their noses out of K-1.

 

[Snubnoze707]

I wish both Sapp and Semmy had stayed in MMA and kept their noses out of K-1.

But Semmy sticking his nose into Kickboxing resulted in him making a boatload of money and becoming the most dominate fighter the sport has seen. Not a bad decision IMO.