musashi's hands down, fast footed, switch hitting style works at times but at other times he gets in big trouble. most japanese fighters he's fought are good examples of it working. ray sefo is a great example of it not working.

lazy? most k-1 fighters don't have great endurance. after 10 rounds, i'm not surprised that musashi was dog tired. we'll see how tired pettas is in tokyo against ignashov.... if it lasts long enough.

i see a world of difference between satake and musashi. satake didn't train except for photo sessions for the press. he depended on matchmaking to get him in the grand prix. remember kimo?

as for aerts, he did ko sefo last year and after that fight, i thought he was back after the lebanner humiliation.

then there was abidi, abidi and abidi. at the end of last year, i thought abidi was a great fighter.

then crocop beat aerts. i thought crocop was a great fighter
then hayashi went 5 rounds with aerts. i thought he was greatly improved.

now i'm going back and realizing that aerts was struggling with weak competition. he can't put guys away like he used to. he gets rocked. he gets knocked out.

this isn't aerts-1998 in the ring these days, it's aerts-2001 and he doesn't scare anyone. on the contrary, most guys want what abidi's got.

oliver,
do you have a copy of GONG KAKUTOGI magazine [apr 2001]? on page 124 there is a picture of kazumi sparring for punches to the head. i thought "wow. is he going to fight in the k-1?" i guess the answer is no.