K1 Final 16, Ben & Paul

[Nick Boutzos]

Hello forum peoples,

I've been sitting on this for a bit but now that announced Ben Edwards & Paul Slowinski will fight at the K1 final 16 in Tokyo October 14...

Ben Edwards will fight Raul Catinas from Romania

Paul Slowinski will fight Catalan Morusanu

Both are very good chances to win there respective fights and move on to the final 8.

With 2 big shows in the world of kickboxing - Glory & K1 it has opened up the fighter pool for more fights and prize money.

Cheers
Nick

[Bushi]

Awesome exposure, and best of luck to both boys. And WHEN they get into the final 8, here's hoping they are on opposite sides of the card and we get a Sting and Guv final

[Adambjjoz]

Would be an absolute shocker if either weren't able to easily beat their opponents. The real story is the absolute laundry list of top K-1 guys who aren't fighting due to injury & other issues. The GP fights featuring Paul and CropCop are headlining the event, supposedly.

Full line up for the event:

World Grand Prix Round of 16 Match-up's:
8. Mirko "CroCop" Flipovic (Cro) vs Randy Blake (USA)
7. Paul Slowinski (Aus) vs Catalin Morosanu (Rom)
6. Jarrell Miller (USA) vs Arnold Oborotov (Lith)
5. Ismael Londt (Sur) vs Singh Jaideep (Ind)
4. Hesdy Gerges (Egypt) vs Sergii Laschenko (Ukr)
3. Zabit Samedov (Aze) vs Xavier Vigney (USA)
2. Makoto Uehara (Jap) vs Hiromi Amada (Jap)
1. Ben Edwards (Aus) vs Raul Catinas (Rom)

Super Fights:
4. Rick Roufus (USA) vs James Wilson (USA)
3. Pavel Zuravliov (Rus) vs Saulo Cavalari (Bra)
2. Jafar Ahmadi (Ira) vs Benjamin Adegbuyl (Nig)
1. Genji Umeno (Jap) vs Chanhyung Lee (Kor)

[Adambjjoz]

Man, K-1 are sure dragging out some has-been's. I watched poor Hiromi Amada get his head knocked off by Mark Hunt in Melbourne, at least 10 years ago.

[TomS]

Yep. Poo line up that's for sure. Looking good for you Aussies though as a result.

[dreamer]

Good luck to Ben and Paul, hopfully they both make it through to the final 8. Hesdy Gerges is a beast would be hard to back against him getting into the final 8 and taking it out.