I suppose this year the World Grand Prix will be reserved to the light-heavyweights, and not the heavyweights. I think there will be a final pyramide with Dawid Kasperski and 3 more.
This tournament on May 24 looks very interesting and I think the winner between Vidovic and Simson will win it. For those who don"t know, Miljan Vidovic is the current WAKO world champion and Miles Simson is another Surinamese prospect (I watched him winning against Nonsai Sor Sanyakorn in Slamm on Muaythai rules and looked very good; that Thai lost only by decision after five rounds to Askerov and is solid enough). All are very young including the previous winner from Poland. In the other semifinal, Jamie Bates currently ranked number 1 in Great Britain (he"s interesting too) takes on Flavius Boiciuc, a tough Romanian though he"s pretty smilar to previous Șchiopu (I don"t think he can provide in this moment, they both must keep developing).
Sebastian Ciobanu will fight against the current WKN Muaythai world champion Corentin Jallon and finally returns in his weight class, the cruiserweight one. I"m following the 3 black fighters on the card: Corentin Jallon, Miles Simson and Aristote Quitusisa (Quitusisa, Frenchman of Angolan origins and WKA world champion, will fight the WAKO European champion Daniel Alexandru; this is a pretty competitive fight, Alexandru was in good form in KOK) to see if they are potential future new heroes, and even Jamie Bates. And I hope that Vidovic wins the tournament, if not Simson. Vidovic did very well in the Superkombat New Heroes and earned a spot in the Superkombat World Grand Prix.
And I hope Paraschiv, Ristea and Hurduc who are now heavily promoted will win.
The promotion will stay at the Romanian seaside for this summer, promoting the Black Sea towns (Andrei Stoica will be on next event"s card defending his title). Then it will move to the Netherlands I think and possibly England.