Kickboxing needs more love! It's what everyone wants, but here in the US it's associated with like cardio kickboxing classes lol Thankfully I've been seeing it change a lot lately.
the axe kick and the spinning back punch were landed flush on hoost. so beautiful. hoost's interception of hug's jumping punch and his spinning back kick was done so masterfully that you can only ever see it in a video game, if the stunt men for video games can even execute it that perfectly. indeed, what a legendary tournament and a legendary finale !
What a great final bout, the best kickboxer perhaps to ever live won, and the fight didn't disappoint This was an awesome series, looking forward to the next ones!
im not a kickboxing fan particularly, but ever since i saw ernesto hoost i've always enjoyed his fights, his kicks were truly ridiculous and he was a great fighter. speaking of great fighters are we gonna get a breakdown of fury vs usyk? i don't think im alone in saying that was one of the greatest fights we've seen in a long time
Hey man. I just want to say thank you for bringing attention to the old K1 fights. It brings me back to my childhood and brings new eyes to some very deserving legends.
Watching this series over the years, I never would've expected to see the last match filled with so many intense hits. My man's jumped into an uppercut and LIVED
Hoost's punches don't look like they're super fast, but I bet each of them is like a 100 lb dumbbell swinging at you. Ridic that Andy could take even one of those, much less multiple. True warriors, the both of them.
Andy Hug! The guy who introduced me to K1. Please make a video about Peter Aerts too. Their rivalry was my favorite because Aerts was the first guy I watched that knocked Hug out. Since then, I always viewed him as the villain to my hero Hug
All Hug needed at the end was mixing up the 10 piece punches to the head with body shots. Make Hoost start to guess, these old school fights are brutal but the boxing they employ isnt as good as the kicks. Dont get me wrong i couldnt handle these guys but it seems like the kicking creativity is greater focus than boxing fundamentals like hit them low to hit them high unless they are kicking.
Some of them did specialize more in punching but you're right, they weren't as well rounded back then. But the different styles is part of what made it so electrifying to watch!
Their last fight went 2 extra rounds! Kind of surprising they didn't here but they had already fought 3 other people lol So maybe not in the rules for this one.
Obviously this was a real life anime fight. But as a GRAND PRIX Final! This is one of the greatest fights ever televised. Both going the distance, neither one of those men did anything for a week or so. They were both physically disabled after the fight. We have no idea what these fighters endured. Insane
Hug employs really epic techniques all the time, spinning backfist, spinkick and so on. Both fighters are legends in their own right and as a Dutchman I love Hoost, but I would give this fight to Hug.
I remember how in 99 me and my friends discovered K1 after playing on PS1, fighting illusion, a game that was released only in Japan in Japanese and none of us knew Japanese so the choice of options was like roulette and such a strange coincidence that the first character I played was Andy, I immediately fell in love with him and K1 in general, since then we watched K1 every Friday on Eurosport
@@TheModernMartialArtist if you live in the states you can still buy this game for about $7 online, you just need a ps1 or 3 to play this game and knowledge of japanese, but maybe there is also an english version? but I don't know that for sure
Wir haben Roger Federer, wir hatten Alinghi aber das beste was der Schweizer Sport hervorgebracht hat (oder besser ein Schweizer selbst geschaffen hat im Sport) war und wird wohl immer Andy sein. Was er im Sport und vorallem in seiner Karriere in Japan geschaffen hat ist einzigartig. RIP Andy, was ne Legende!
How was Hug able to take those leg kicks flush and walk through it all, his legs must be super strong. Plus Hug getting punched hit mid-air as he jumped towards Hoost, and shrug it off. Both fighters took plenty of punishment but battled through. Tough as they come.
I love your analysis but here is a pro tip from a Dutch guy. To pronounce the name Hoost. Say Hose (like the flexible pipe you can force water through) and ad a T.
What, exactly, is the point of describing each second by second fight sequence as it is actually occurring, do you have some kind of formless group of blind spectators in your head, that need the fighting explained to them......? It's like coming across someone standing in a hole in the ground, and they tell you that there is a hole in the ground..... and they're standing in it.....
Idk man I guess I do, except they're real spectators because I get millions of views a month. And I don't think they're blind because it's a RU-vid video. So it's more like millions of people are watching entertaining educational videos and you're covered in grime, yelling at clouds and saying everyone watching the movie must be nuts. Maybe go touch some grass or something, get your head on a little straighter lol
If I'm remembering that fight right I thought the ref ended it really early. I haven't watched it in so long but I remember Hoost winning and then Sap got him in the corner and the ref just stopped it. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me though.
@@TheModernMartialArtistNot misremembering much. Kinda. Hoost got dropped once right before the fight, ending flurry, but it didn't necessarily seem that Hoost was completely out of it.
