K-1 Hong Kong - finally!

By the time you read this, I'll probably be basking on a beach in Waikiki with a Corona like in those commercials....  (ok, maybe not two major things wrong with that image).  But I've post-dated this entry so you'll get your Etchy fix...

It took me forever to finish!  but finally I have put up my K-1 Hong Kong pictures and Video!  You may recall that this event was actually held in HK over two months ago... but because I took so much video, it took me a long time to actually finish this! :-P




The event was held at the beginning of August at the Asia World Expo, the first K-1 event held in Hong Kong.  For those who don't know,  K-1 (wikipedia) is probably the biggest kick boxing league in the world, based in Japan.  Its pretty famous,  personally I've always preferred PRIDE to K-1 (mixed martial arts vs stand-up kickboxing), but i didn't want to pass up a chance to see it either way. ;-)

The only fighters on the card I really wanted to see were the 'super fight' participants,  Choi Hong Man and Gary Goodridge... 

You may have seen Choi on some of those Japanese Variety Show Clips on Youtube, basically he is a 7'2", 360lb Korean guy who is marginally good at kickboxing (wikipedia)...

Goodridge (wikipedia) is a Canadian guy who used to fight in UFC and Pride (and was an Arm Wrestling Champion of some sort)... he is only 6'3" and 240lb though... so big arms or not, he was in trouble. :-P


Pat pre-ordered seats a few months in advance. We had seats up in the stands for the first half.  in the second half i managed to sneak into the VIP section.  Here's the compilation video that took so long to finish:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDV7O5L-xTQ