Remy Bonjasky: Pesky fan leads to blown knee, poor performance at K-1 GP

by Stefan Manojlovic on Mar 29, 2009 9:36 AM EDT

Quoteworthy:

"My performance today was not my best. Honestly, on Thursday when I was asked by a fan for a photo while having dinner, and I stood up and twisted my knee. I wanted to cancel the fight, but after discussing it with K-1 and a doctor, we decided to continue. This is why I couldn’t do my usual flying knees and running around, so I apologize for that. It seems like I partially tore my meniscus, it was incredibly painful. To defend the name of K-1 was a lot of pressure, but it felt good to knock Alistair down. If I didn’t get the down it would have seemed like a draw. I wanted to finish him but my coach told me to not take any risks, and just take the win."

-Winner of the K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 Remy Bonjasky blames a bum knee and pesky fan for his less-than-thrilling performance against Alistair Overeem at FieLDS K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Yokohama on Saturday, March 28. "The Flying Gentleman," who won the 2008 GP after some illegal strikes from DQ’d opponent Badr Hari, was accused by Overeem of overselling his injuries during that bout and may not have done much to dispel those rumors following these comments -- and Saturday's performance.

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What a bunch of bull! Who hurts their knee getting up?

by Caknakker on Mar 29, 2009 9:39 AM EDT reply actions

I dont think that he is lying about it. I mean he won the fight….why make up an excuse? I do think that he could have continued against Hari, but thats water under the bridge. It wasnt his greatest performance, but I am happy that he didnt pull out of the fight.

K-1 has the best replays in sports. UFC needs to stop being cheap, and pony up some money for those super zoom lenses that K-1 use. There replay’s look so damn real, like knockout kings for x BOx 360…you can see that sweat being Knocked off their faces.

UFC is making boatloads of money, they need to stop being so damn cheap with their event production. I also would like them to do the compu stats before everyfight….Like GSP successfully defends takedowns 90% of the time in his career…and opponents only hit machida for an average of twice per round. They need to star providing more of these stats!

by john on Mar 29, 2009 9:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Hey John, i remember the UFC use to have superspeed zoom lenses. they were using them at ufc 56 and i know they had it ufc 64 if im not mistaken. they may have stopped using them recently. maybe a precautionary measure to keep tabs on their side of the economy. and they actually show stats but only for main events as of late. that would be cool. compu box numbers always add more interest to a fighter.

by Santiago69us on Mar 29, 2009 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions

reaaly? I cant recall the lenses being used. I dont doubt what you are saying, but I have to go back and rewatch those events. I actually own UFC 56 on dvd…so Im going to pop it in and give it a look. I get what you are saying about the economy, but its been a whlie since the UFC made any changes to its broadcast…I think its time to tweak the production a little…I am getting bored wit the same recycled production!

by john on Mar 29, 2009 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions

I think its good to hear that Remy’s knee was injured going into the fight. The entire time I was watching, I was like, “Where are the flying knees???”. The Flying Dutchman was grounded. I laughed at the opening bell and Overeem’s flying knee attempt.

BUT, how does a K-1 fighter who trains to get kicked in the leg simply stand up from a chair and injur himself to the point that he did not want to fight.

Before last year, I didn’t really watch much K-1, but since I’ve been watching it sure seems like every time Remy wins, there is some sort of controversy. He clearly snuck by Allistair with the knockdown in the 3rd, I just think its odd how he said he got hurt. If I were him, I would have said that it happened during my last training session the day before, not standing up to take a picture with some fan.

John, I love those camera shots, especially the kicks to the liver / ribs = BRUTAL!!!!

by ViolentMike on Mar 29, 2009 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions

It may not be the best in sports, but it’s definitely the best replays in the whole fight business.. I agree it’s good to hear that Remy was injured, cause u could tell something was wrong during that whole fight..

by RoB on Mar 29, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Gotta love K-1 Classics. “Record Series” on all of your DVR’s

by ViolentMike on Mar 29, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah VM…Body blows with those lenses are simply incredible and the UFC should really step their game up and start using them. Could u imagine the replay of Rampage Ko’ing Wanderlei with those lenses? WOW!!!! I have also really become a bigtime k-1 fan. I cant get HdNet on my Tv but I make my boy DVR all the events that air on hdnet

While watching the fight, i was actually thinking…“something has got to be wrong with Remmy”…Not making excuses for his less than Stellar performance, but that wasnt really Remmy’s style. I had never seen him fight that way. He is usually a whirling dervish of Flying Knees and Kicks, and he is always jumping around at a frantic pace. I really believe that he was hurt because I really had never seen him fight that way. I do agree with the way that the judges scored the fight.

Pissed off that Melvin got Ko’ed (lost some money on that one)…but I am happy to see the 1st Japanese Heavyweight k-1 champion. That has to be a great honor that he is very proud of.

“THE FLYING DUTCHMAN” WAS GROUNDED!!

everyone talks about how they would actually like to see Anderson in boxing…F that, I want to see him in K-1! THere are endless MEGA Fights awaiting for him at k-1! for starters:
Anderson vs. Remmy would be bad ass!

Question: I have never really seen fighter salaries for a k-1 event. Anyone know what kind of money these amazing athletes are making?

FYI: Alistar fought a very dirty fight. I am a big Alistar fan and have been since he was a tall, scrawny, Lanky runt that used to entertain me and then get knocked out….But what he was doing last night was dirty! I cant respect the way he fought, and he needs to get his head in check. He fought a dirty fight against Cro Cop as well, and he has started to quietly build himself a bad rep as a dirty fighter.

I have NEVER accused an mma fighter of doing steroids. NEVER!!! although I am very biased towards Alistar, I have to admit that I really question if he is on Roids…IMO, he has to be…He is just too damn big compared to how he used to be. Not only did he put on a lot of weight, but his fram changed drastically. Weather he used steroids or not, I would like to see him be clean before he gets popped for it and tarnishes his career!

by john on Mar 29, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions

can you post my response please? thank you!

by john on Mar 29, 2009 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions

awesome post john! I agree on every word u just wrote

by RoB on Mar 29, 2009 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions

thanks man!

by john on Mar 29, 2009 6:51 PM EDT up reply actions

John, I lost money on Melvin as well.

My only other bet was a parlay that I went 3/4 on:

Remy/Aerts/Feitosa/Le Banner

And to make it worse, I had it a 3 fight parlay and added JLB at the last moment.

At the end of the Grand Prix last year they said how much Remy won, I think it was 1/2 million, but don’t hold me to it.

by ViolentMike on Mar 30, 2009 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions

i did lol, its possible friend, trust me, after a hard BJJ sparr and after it all, me standing up was what tore it…crazy

by SGTBlitz on Mar 29, 2009 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m sick of people saying Overeem won that fight. It’s not MMA, there’s a different scoring system, and all Overeen did was fight dirty and not score points.

by Jon on Mar 29, 2009 9:56 AM EDT reply actions

+1. My friend always calls boxing wrong too because he isn’t used to watching it. It is hard for some mma fans to get.

by Bill Maher on Mar 29, 2009 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions

I didn’t see anyone say that he won, but I could see an argument for him winning the 2nd round as opposed to a draw. The first was a draw, so he should have been winning going into the third.

by naturalshadow on Mar 29, 2009 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions

He looked like he was fighting hurt. Anytime someone who throws a lot of crazy kicks and knees is being tame its usually a knee or foot injury

by EazyEismydad on Mar 29, 2009 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

Pesky fan? For asking for a photo? C’mon..

by Lester the Pimp on Mar 29, 2009 3:02 PM EDT reply actions

how does k1 scoring work?

by Sky on Mar 29, 2009 5:27 PM EDT reply actions

Overeem beat the shit out of this crapptastic so called fighter….Dominated him 2rounds and was winning the 3rd till he got dropped.

Nothing short of judges getting paid off got this terrible actor a win.

K-1 = Stupid weak SHADY REAL SHADY ORG

by Khaos_Warrior on Mar 29, 2009 9:34 PM EDT reply actions

I’m a bit confused. I’ve just watched the main event and I saw a fight dominated by Overeem with Remy [thowing hardly anything in reply for the whole three rounds] get a decision based on a single Knock Down.

Can someone please explain the rules because I had it 28-28 with round by round scoring of Overeem 10-9, 10-9, 8-10?

by Stubee on Mar 30, 2009 2:21 PM EDT reply actions