Group photo at the press conference
K-1 WGP Undifferentiated Eight-Man Race
Hideaki Yamazaki VS Tetsuya Yamato
Eugenic Egawa VS Ryuya Oiwa
Hisaki Kato VS Ai Yingliang
The K-1 WORLD GP 2022 JAPAN ~K'FESTA.5~ competition, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan on April 3, officially announced that the finale of the day was the undifferentiated (+100kg) championship eight-player race, and there was also a K-1 WGP ultra-lightweight (-65kg) championship defending battle on the same day.
The K-1 WGP Undifferentiated Champions Eight-player lineup is: MMA athlete LEGION champion Koharu Sukuwa (3-1, KO) against karate player Seiya Tanigawa (7-5-1, 3 KO), Beijing Olympic judo champion Kei Ishii (2-0, 0 KO) against Bigbang champion Kosuke Shikata (13-9, 10 KO), and former K-1 heavyweight champion Keitaro Fujimoto (19-6, 10 KO) against J-NETWORK and KROSS × OVER champion Hidenori Sakamoto (15-7-1, 6 KO) against former K-1 WGP sub-heavyweight champion K-Jee (21-11, 18 KO) against Iran's undefeated champion WAKO, M-1 Muay Thai and Krush champion Mohammed Satari (16-0, 9 KO).
Current K-1 WGP Ultra Lightweight Champion Hideaki Yamazaki (34-8-1, 19 KO) is defending his title against Lion Fight champion WBC Muay Thai Tetsuya Yamato (42-20-1, 31 KO). Hideaki Yamazaki won the K-1 WGP Ultra Lightweight championship in the first ko security game in September 2020 by Anpo Rukiya, just after the first ko kashi Mizutani in March last year. Tetsuya Yamato suffered three consecutive defeats before, and in 2019 was defeated by the Unthinkable Second KO, lost points to Sasaki Daizo, and was defeated by Tapruwan Hadesworkout's first TKO. However, it was just in the third round last December KO Yujiro Ono.
In addition, former K-1 WGP featherweight champion Yuso Egawa (14-4-1, 10 KO) will face Bigbang champion Ryuya Oiwa (20-8, 7 KO). Eugenic Egawa just lost the K-1 title to Tsubakihara Tatsuya in a split decision in the fourth overtime in March last year, and Oyan Ryuya just beat Takuma in the third set of last March kooki Yamamoto.
Match Match Chart:
K-1 WGP Undifferentiated Championship Tournament:
Animal Koji vs. Tanigawa Seiya
Ishii Satoshi vs. Jitsukata Kosuke
Kyotaro Fujimoto vs. Hidenori Sakamoto
K-Jee vs. Mahmoud Sattari
K-1 WGP Undifferentiated Championship Tournament - Reserve:
Kato Hisaki vs. Aitaka Ryo
K-1 WGP Ultra Lightweight Championship Tournament:
Yamazaki Hideaki (#c) vs. Tetsuya Yamato
Super Featherweight Competition:
Egawa Yuuki vs. Oiwa Tatsuya
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