Jerome Le Baner still fights?!?!
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I like to think he just still loves fighting, I hope he's doing alright financially. Still hard to see him fighting at this age.
It's been back since ~2014 or so. Tons of great fights you've missed out on man. Although I do prefer RISE over K-1 tbh
K-1 is the third promotion now, after Big 2. Somewhat. Not a solid 3rd maybe everytime. The last time it tried to become "golden" again was in 2011 or 2012, when it promoted with It's Showtime from the Netherlands and then with Superkombat from Romania.
They have very good matches in the categories from 65kg down. At the midgets. However, recently in K-1, 65 has decreased compared to what it was several years ago.
The good thing for Asia is that Glory has dropped 70 and doesn't really invest enough in 65, and other smaller divisions don't. So we'll see more and more in Japan/China/ONE Championship.
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To me this doesn't count as K1. The Wgp that Mirko won alrrady was a fake product to me.
Real K1 was the global kickboxing elite fighting for the championship.
Glory is the new K1. It just isn't even 1/3 as good as real K1 was. The production and events.
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Last year's K-1 world max was pretty good. A solid world class tournament. The openwieght grand prix was ok... Definitely could have been better and should have had an international broadcast.
It was successful, but it remained somewhat regional and only hardcore fans like us went for it. Anyway, it's not so much the promotion that matters, it's the fight that's happening. It's not like K-1 doesn't have a crowd and a good production.
But Carlos was funny telling us that the new K-1 is being revived, comparing it to the golden era.
But Carlos was funny telling us that the new K-1 is being revived, comparing it to the golden era.
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JLB was my all-time favourite so I won't watch that video. I prefer to remember him at his best:
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Le Banner
It is sad. The man is 52. He looks like a mutant.
It is sad. The man is 52. He looks like a mutant.
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A young Lebanner in bare knuckle boxing would have been a very scary opponent and he could have had great success there. F*ck getting punched in the face by Lebannner bare knuckle.
Le Banner is quite an intense guy. Big heart, big mouth, no filter, and act-first-think-later kind of guy. He always finds himself in crazy situations and let's say he is not the type to de-escalate crazy situations.
I sounds like he got sucked in all sort of businesses around the fight industry, on top of being in a weird relationship with a crazy-dangerous type of girl and being fleeced by a manager.
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My favourite with Daniel Ghita.JLB was my all-time favourite so I won't watch that video. I prefer to remember him at his best:
I idolised JLB
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Boxing purists look at me funny when I rank his punching power up there with the all-time heavy hitters like Foreman, Wilder, Shavers, Liston, etc, but watch his fights pre-Hoost shattering his arm and tell me it doesn't compare.
Mix that power with the aggression and shaky chin and someone was gettin' sparked the hell out when he stepped in the ring!
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He was definitely a monster puncher, enough so that Don King wanted him in his heavyweight stable. I don't think I would place him with the powerhouses you mentioned, but he definitely had punching power that was comparable to the top heavyweight boxers of his day.
For what it's worth, I think he was better off in K-1. He probably could have been a solid contender with the right trainer, but the 90's was a golden age for heavyweight boxing.
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can't be too broke, man still looks like an absolute unit. his face though is looking more and more like a Picasso painting.
he has the perfect look for a villainous henchman. i don't know how more of these ex fighters don't go the Taktarov route. especially guys like Le Banner, they have the look and it gives creditability to the inevitable fight scenes.
he has the perfect look for a villainous henchman. i don't know how more of these ex fighters don't go the Taktarov route. especially guys like Le Banner, they have the look and it gives creditability to the inevitable fight scenes.
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If he could hit as hard as Wilder he would have been a boxing champion.
