Today Snickers and I headed out to Osan to watch his best bud, Wonder Boy, have his debut K1 fight. I've never seen a live K1 fight so I was overly eager to go and ready and waiting by the door long before it was time to actually head out.
Some of Wonder Boy and Snickers' friends had showed up to also show their support. 
I had anticipated all the fighters wearing the odd piece of protective equipment but all but two matches involved protective gear. Regardless of all the gear, you knew those kicks especially had to hurt. Snickers helped Wonder Boy with his gear and off he went to fight. Wonder Boy use to be a champion boxer here in Korea but has since retired from boxing and taken up K1 fighting. Lately Snickers has been talking about moving into K1 fighting or even MMA but my response is "If you want a new sport, find a new wife." I'm okay with his random broken bones, black eyes and needed stitches, but cauliflower ears and a quicker much easier source of punch drunkenness is nothing I can stomach.
For the most part, Wonder Boy stuck to his boxing skills. He's always had massively strong legs because of his love for cycling but he admits that when it comes to K1 fighting, he still has to work on using his legs and not just his arms.
Regardless of whatever skills he did or didn't use, he won. Congrats big guy!
The fight that really sparked my interest was the one female fight of the day. Prior to the fight both Snickers and I picked our fighters. I cheered for the girl in the blue and she won.
Many of Snickers buddies are convinced they want to end up with foreign women. It's obvious that despite their teasing of Snickers and his "lavish life", as they refer to it as being, they envy him. I'm not sure if dating foreign women is the route for them to go but I definitely think dating a fighting chick is the way for them to go. I tried to convince one of the guys to chat it up with the girl in blue but he said he was scared, saying that she might kick his a$$. "Trust me, if a girl like her kicks your butt, complaining is the last thing you'll be doing... just ask Snickers" and with that Snickers blushed... hahaha.
One of the big attention getters for today's tournament were two older opponents. Both were in their thirties, if not a bit older, and both were massive. Their punches were hard, their kicks were intense and they both ended the fight with quickly swelling faces and beat red legs. It was awesome!!!
Of the two fights that actually had very little padding (they only wore a cup), one of the fights ended on a brutal note. In the first round one fighter gave a brutally hard kick to the other fighter's ribs, causing him to collapse to the ground... and stay there. He stayed there for a good five minutes. He couldn't move; he couldn't do anything more than lay in agony. Finally, they got him out of the ring and he flopped back down on the ground. I assume he was later taken to the hospital to be treated for some very, very sore ribs... ouch!!!QUESTION OF THE DAY...Why do such brutally violent sports interest us?QUOTE OF THE DAY...Just do it.-- Nike
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