Media Sherdog’s Pick Your Best of 2023 in Kickboxing

[BoxerMaurits]

Sherdog’s Pick Your Best of 2023 in Kickboxing

With 2023 now being in the past, it's time to list our favorite moments of last year!


Here are some categories to help you get started:

- Fight(s) Of The Year

- Upset(s) Of The Year

- Fighter(s) Of The Year

- Breakout Fighter(s) Of The Year

- Knockout(s) Of The Year

- Comeback(s) Of The Year

- Controversy(s) Of The Year

- Event(s) Of The Year

- Story(s) Of The Year

You can name a single favorite, do rankings or just share something that stood out to you in 2023.


Let’s kick this off Sherbro’s



PS: Kalutougi’s K1Power inspired me to make this thread, shoutout to him!

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Do you expect 2024 to be an even better year for us Kuckboxing-fans?

 

[Monte Moku]

Fight of the Year:
Chingiz Allazov VS Marat Grigoran

Upset of the Year:
Petchpanomrung Kiatmookao VS Chadd Collins

Fighter of the Year:
Chingiz Allazov

Breakout Fighter of the Year:
Toki Tamaru

Knockout of the Year:
Superbon VS Tayfun Ozcan

Comeback of the Year:
YA-MAN would be my go-to guy, but both of his fights in 2023 were dominant wins. I'll have to be undecided on this one for now.

Controversy of the Year:
Hamicha VS Diaguely Camara I guess?

Event of the Year:
RISE World Series 2023 Final Round

Story of the Year:
YA-MAN

 

[GreenGorilla]

Just my personal Opinion don't kill me.

Fight(s) Of The Year
Rico Osaro (JK)
Allazov vs Superbon

- Upset(s) Of The Year
Never heard of the guy and nothing suggested he would be decent but Liu Ce winning suprised me I thought he was just gonna be a random can getting crushed.
Allazov handling Superbon like he did, not necessarily a crazy upset just the matter in which he won.
Osaro winning vs Plazibat, I thought for sure Plazibat was gonna cruise through and I think Glory thought so too

- Fighter(s) Of The Year
Allazov

- Breakout Fighter(s) Of The Year
Latescu,Touchassie,Liu Ce and Chico Kwasi

- Knockout(s) Of The Year
Noiri vs Askerov
Allazov vs Superbon
Tawanchai vs Kiria (Does a broken arm count?)

- Comeback(s) Of The Year
Can't think of any right now tbh.

- Controversy(s) Of The Year
I suppose the Hari Mcsweeney incident but not sure wasn't really that invested this year.

- Event(s) Of The Year
The parts I was able to see K'Festa 6 was pretty good.

- Story(s) Of The Year
All the announcement of Grands Prix in the future, they are serious about bringing them back it seems.