Relive the 2005 K-1 Heavyweight Grand Prix!

Back when being a man was a great thing to be

Le Banners corner: something in French ... weeeee! waaaaah! ... something in French

Semmy Schilt, a decent fighter with enourmous height and reach advantage over the rest of the K1 fighters during this domination era. Schilt could reach other fighter's head height easily by just slighty raising his knees while others had to make jumping knees to reach the head. Same with the high kicks, Semmy only had to make a 90 degree angle straight kicks to reach other fighters heads. And don't talk to me about them actually reaching Schilt's head with their high kicks, nearly impossible (Glaube Feitosa's incredible brazilian question mark hight kick being the exeption!). And that front kick, wow, they had no chance defending that treelog of a kick. Most fighter's tools were almost useless against Schilt's height. The fact is Semmy came to K1 and used his size to destroy some of the best K1 fighters, who up until his arrival had fought on a fair and equal footing to become the best of the best with some incredible fights. Then came Semmy, and there's no way he was a better fighter than Bonjasky, Aerts, Hari and Hoost just to name a few legends.

The best K1 was during the 90 to around 2005

Who else was watching on Eurosport? Bonjasky was my favorite fighter back then. I dearly enjoyed his 2003/2004 run.

Me and my friends used to watch all the worldwide tournaments on Eurosport through out the year, everybody had a favorite to win the Final Grand Pix in Japan. What a great format, every year was a new martial arts season. It almost felt like a movie, every year was a sequel with old heroes, some new crazy characters and even a few bad guys. I was a huge Bonjaski fan back in the day, 2003 and 2004 he was unbeatable. Aerts, Hoost, Sefo, and LeBanner were some of the all time greats, they all started in the 90's and came back year after year. Hunt and CroCop had great success as well but switched to MMA in the early 00's. And there were some crazy entertaining characters like Gary Goodrige, Bob Sapp and Mighty Mo.

There goes that beautiful man, Hong Man Choi.

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Man Schilt is so controlled / agile for a guy that size.

Remy Bonjasky is 6'4". Those dudes are giants.

Très injuste ces combats

루슬란 vs 무사시 = 루슬란 승이어야됨. 박치기 말곤 유효타가 압도적이었음.

Ele e muito esquisito esse grandão ai

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So came Schildt and made K 1 boring.

Thanks for the upload. But the content is one word「 boring」.
Remy is interesting to watch now that I'm an adult, but Shults is really boring.
Musashi too (noticeable in other tournaments as well) has too many slips, golden interruption, and weird judgments.
No wonder they are going out of business.

K-1, best tournament ever.

試合が不愉快でつまらんセームシュルト時代の到来やなwww
ここからK-1観るのやめたわwww

Damn, I was 15 and watched this all night long. Good memories!

Karaev vs Musashi is one of the worst decisions Ive ever seen, up there with Roy Jones vs Park si hun

Bonyaski was great. But the way he used flying kicks and then dropped to the ground so the referee has to interfer, was kind of 'playing the system'.

Damn deny had to fight both giants on the same night 😮

でかいのに膝は無しやわ

Musashi's robbery was just insane

semmy schilt is uninspiring boredom😂

Gary double jab right hand 👊

Is k1 and glory kickboxng same organisations,,?

Glory Kickboxing: Could you upload the 2001,2002,2003 WGP'S That would be great! Osu! thx by the way for this one 💪

Stop posting fights if you don't show who wins in the end, one didn't show

heavyweights light on their feet like butterflies

Ruslan karaev got robbed.

This is missing the Badr Hari fight Against Stefan Leko.

Cool! Kickboxers nowadays don't seem as epic as these guys.

Anyone know all the fighters names for each match?

I thought now that K-1 bought their rights back you wouldn’t be allowed to upload K-1 bouts anymore.
Still wear for Glory to upload K-1 stuff

Wow just WOW…. That is some nostalgia right there. K1 GP was some of the best. All were beasts. Made me get into K1.