K-1 World Grand Prix Final 2008 to air live on HDNet featuring Kimbo Slice as guest commentator

by Jesse Holland on Dec 3, 2008 10:59 PM EST Comment 22 comments

Fighting and Entertainment Group (FEG) and HDNet are partnering once again to bring North American fans LIVE coverage of the K-1 World Grand Prix Final 2008 from the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan starting at 3:00am ET on Saturday, December 6.

Joining the broadcast team of Michael "The Voice" Schiavello, four-time K-1 WGP Champion Ernesto Hoost and FEG USA's Mike Kogan will be none other than Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson.

Kimbo was invited by FEG and HDNet to be a guest commentator for K-1's stateside debut.

FiELDS K-1 WGP 2008 Final, an 8-man knockout tournament for the coveted K-1 Grand Prix crown, features the world's best heavyweight strikers including Moroccan/Dutch Bad Boy Badr Hari; legendary triple K-1 World Champion Peter Aerts; French monster Jerome LeBanner; Russian wonder Ruslan Karaev and two-time former champion Remy Bonjasky.

The broadcast also includes superfights featuring New Zealand's "Sugar" Ray Sefo vs. seven-foot-plus giant Hong Man Choi and Australia's Paul Slowinski vs. now un-retired Dutch demon Melvin Maenhoef.

Here is the official fight card for K-1 ‘World Grand Prix 2008 Final’:

Main Card:

K-1 World Grand Prix Final
Winner of Semifinal 1 vs. Winner of Semifinal 2

K-1 World Grand Prix Semifinals
Winner of Aerts/Hari vs. Teixeira/Zimmerman
Winner of Karaev/Saki vs. Le Banner/Bonjasky

K-1 World Grand Prix Quarterfinals
Peter Aerts (93-26-1) vs. Badr Hari (75-7-1)
Ewerton Teixeira (7-0) vs. Errol Zimmerman (74-7-1, 1 NC)
Ruslan Karaev (18-6) vs. Gokhan Saki (74-9, 1 NC)
Jerome Le Banner (91-15-1, 1 NC) vs. Remy Bonjasky (79-14)

Preliminary Card
Mitsugu Noda (6-2) vs. Tsutomu Takahagi (1-5)
Takeru (5-12) vs. Taisei Ko (1-0)

Reserve Fights
Paul Slowinski (87-13-1) vs. Melvin Manhoef (38-4)
Hong Man-Choi (17-5) vs. Ray Sefo (74-20-1)

For those of you who love K-1 but still need their beauty sleep, FEG is kind enough to offer an encore presentation later that evening starting at 9:00 p.m. ET.

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Man what the hell does Kimbo know about striking or K-1 that he can announce.

by NameNotRequired on Dec 4, 2008 12:24 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

good question… hell probably say two sentences the entire nite

by brendan on Dec 4, 2008 1:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

does anybody knows the result of the first fight? (I am from Holland)
Grtz
Ray

by Raymond on Dec 6, 2008 3:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Kimbo makes about as much sense at K-1 as he did at the Country Music Awards. I will give Kimbo credit for milking himself for everything he can get. I hate him as an mma fighter, but as a pseudo celebrity, he is actually not so bad.

by naturalshadow on Dec 4, 2008 2:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

How can you hate him for fuck sake.The guy didn’t do anything wrong.If you want to “hate” anyone direct it at the Shaw’s and Jeremy Lappen their the ones who wanted to market Kimbo as the baddest man on the planet.People act like Kimbo claimed to be the King of MMA,he always said he had a lot to learn and a long way to go.At least if he goes into K-1 or boxing he won’t have to worry about developing a ground game at 34 years old.He can concentrate on what he knows standing up and throwing punches.

by tyler on Dec 4, 2008 3:30 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I can’t imagine he’d do well in K-1. The striking in K-1 is a lot more evolved than MMA. I know Kimbo has some boxing experience but that’s not enough to go against some of the world’s best Muay Thai & Kick boxers is it? He’s more of a brawler and he’d be torn apart in K-1. He might be better off compteting in in Art Davie’s Xarm lol.

by Stefan Manojlovic on Dec 4, 2008 8:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

He would do awful in K-1. He has some basic boxing skills, but that is about it. Plus, he was knocked out by a jab from a lhw. His chin would never hold up in K-1.

by naturalshadow on Dec 4, 2008 1:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You have no idea how he’d do you’re just a hater.

by tyler on Dec 4, 2008 9:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think naturalshadow is right and kimbo would get a real schooling in K1, cant wait for the fights tonight should be another great K1 grand finalI hope badr hari does better this year.His first fight will be a real test.Hopefully he can withstand Aerts vicious lower body kicks.Everyone should be entertained with the fight 3 times in one night event. Theres nothing more exciting than live K1

by dave on Dec 5, 2008 6:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Having that disgrace Kimbo announce really adds some credibility to the broadcast.

by the_mexicutioner on Dec 4, 2008 6:18 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

As much as Kimbo is a digarce, he hasn’t given the sport a bad name for taking drugs or steroids like some of the stars we have or have had in the sport.

by Ade on Dec 4, 2008 9:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Kimbo is not a kickboxer he has no place comentating or fighting in K-1

by Shadow side on Dec 4, 2008 10:27 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Always nice to have arrogant people around to tell everyone else where they have a place and where they don’t.Thanks

by tyler on Dec 4, 2008 12:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

do you think he would come on these mma blogs and read the stupid crap people write about him? he must feel like a joke… the worlds biggest dumbest richest joke

by sp00ner1234 on Dec 4, 2008 10:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Whose idea was this? Worst idea ever.

by Ian on Dec 4, 2008 10:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Don’t Hate. Let the man make a living. He’s a guest commentator not the head fight analyst. I wouldn’t mind seeing him fight again.

by CARNAGE on Dec 4, 2008 10:59 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

WHAT THE F**K! How do you get a f**king bum commentating on one of the greatest events of he year. Thanks for the heads up mania, I was going to buy the paper view, definately not now.

Carnage: Go out Saturday night, watch a few fights in the alley way and you’ll probably get to see Kimbo commentating and fighting there. Lets not get to precious here!

by DownUnder on Dec 4, 2008 2:04 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

you guys complaining are blowing things out of proportion. Goldie has no business commentating for the UFC but he does anyways.

Get over it.

by Bill Maher on Dec 4, 2008 2:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

i cant believe jerome le banner is still fighting in k-1. what ever happened to that black guy with blonde hair? last name mcdonald i think, he was a brutal striker.

by day1er on Dec 4, 2008 9:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Michael McDonald? He hasn’t fought since October 2007 I think, and he’s about 43 now so pretty safe to say he’s at the end of his career, might have a few more fights left in him but not many.

by Stefan Manojlovic on Dec 5, 2008 8:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Kimbo sigh… rewarding this man is going to make a bunch of dumb a— kids film street fights and put them on the youtube in hopes of being a star. Can’t blame kimbo, if people came to me with the cash I would fight. Kimbo has always been humble. It is his fans that annoy me. The guy sucks at mma but looks the part kinda like Bob Sapp. He is marketable playing on people’s racists scary black thug perception and those who want to live vicariously through hime thinking a street fighter is better than professionals. It gives them hope that they can beat up the world with zero skills just by being ‘hard’ and flatten dudes at a bar-bq