I just watched the fights as shown on japanese TV. (Its amazing what you can find on the net)
VERY nice.
Filho played with Bonjasky, and it was very clear who won.
Bonjasky is a good fighter and I like to watch him fight, but this night he didnt have a chance. Maybe he didnt fight at his best, but he simply couldnt compare to Filho this night. Filho dominated every round from start to finish, and near the end of round 3 bonjasky got a standing 8 after standing passive against the rope while filho used his head as speedball.

Pichkunov was impressive. He looked more like kyokushin than filho and feitosa (Ive never liked the flicking round kick of Filho and Feitosa - a brasilian "dialect" maybe?. Although effective, they never looked "right" to me -and Im not talking about the brasilian kick here), and I hope to see him in k-1 again. Although he may be too light . does anyone know his fighting weight?

Feitosa overwhelmed overeem. not much more to say about that. Overeem may be a good/decent MMA fighter, but not anywhere near feitosa in the striking game. Got to give it to him for taking the fight on short notice though.

Teixeira and Majstorovic (out of seidokaikan and so not unfamiliar with knockdown rules) had a good fight (maybe with a bit much forehead-to-forehead punch-trading). but the best fighter won.
Unfortunaly the whole fight was not show

Kurbanov and Akaishi did a good job in their respective bouts, and it was over before I realy got to form a oppinion about them But admitedly they did not have much of a opposition. Nice tobi ushiro mawashi by Kurbanov though. VERY nice. Dropped Fam (who had about as much skill as Sapp on a bad night, and about the same tactics) like sack of bricks, and he didnt get up.
Maveric came out swinging (with the smaller akaishi defending skillfully), but soon lost momentum and didnt realy have anything to show after first half of 1st round. after his first visit to the floor in round 2 (second visit there with a 8 count in the fight) he should not have been allowed to continue -he still had trouble with ballance when the fight restarted after the count.


I also got to watch a small part of the Magunamu Sakai vs. Ohno Takashi bout (unfortunaly the only thing from the minor fighting card shown) Does anyone know where Ohno Takashi comes from? he is not listed as kyokushin in he fighter line up and ive never heard of him, but his opponent Sakai was shidokan. And is WAS a kyokushin vs k1 event? Anyway from what little was shown, Takashi atleast made it a good fight, even if he didnt win.

Nijman came out fighting dirty (face punch to a opponet down on his back after a slip, as his first technique in the fight). And he continued to fight dirty. in the entire fight he made 5 body kicks (poorly) and a whole lot of face punches, nothing else! Im sure the MMA crowd will gleefully show this as proof kyokushin cant defend against facepunches, but realy! A well deserved disqalification -you would think he would make a punch allowed by the rules atleast by accident. I never got to see Tanaka though, and I hope to see HIM in some other event.

All in all a nice event, even though the K1 side could have been of much better skill.