Kyokushin Karate Legend vs. Kickboxing Star | Akimoto vs. Tonna

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[@balajijerupula2207]

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[@teovorisan8156]

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[@raigami]

This is why you gotta love ONE! allowing two different styles to fight on equal grounds without restriction.

[@ArtistDaynz90]

Its just kickboxing LOL. Two different styles is irrelevant. Its kickboxing rules.

[@Tigerous]

When you limit yourself to one style you’re disabling yourself from your full potential.

[@ognjenradanovic1256]

Corny ​@@Tigerous

[@JBerry-ec7ck]

Kickboxing isn't really a style, it's like boxing. There's no martial practice to it other than just kick punch and workout. Karate and martial arts involves much more discipline and training, especially this style of Karate, no surprise the Kyokushin guy won.

[@Pifagorass]

​@@JBerry-ec7ckKiokushin is a bit funny IMHO - Kata teaches wrestling and grappling and is not applicable in combat and almost nobody knows what practical application is. Striking air when pads around 😂 But the intensity of training, including explosive strength and endurance with practical kumite (fighting) outweighs appendixes from the beginning of 20th century ❤ No wonder Duch kickboxers with less years of practice vs Thai fighters win. Duch kickboxers took everything what's good from Kiokushin karate and removed rituals.

[@jalenikezeue4114]

Kyokushin Practitioners Are The Best in kickboxing I'll never forget Legends like Andy Hug 🇨🇭 Francisco Filho 🇧🇷 Sam Greco 🇦🇺 And Peter Smit 🇳🇱

[@zeetals4740]

フェイトーザも忘れないで

[@Caligula138]

Andy Hug is a fuckin legend

[@jojof4645]

@@zeetals4740 meu mestre

[@peres827]

Francisco Filho é uma lenda 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@IanGates-bo8fk]

Also Peter Graham, another Australian Kyokushin fighter, back in the 90s

[@Explorshon123]

Great fight, beautiful kyokushin body mawashi geri's! And Josh, what heart, nice overhand right! Well done to both warriors.

[@John-X]

this was the best mma fight i've seen. i dont like mma cuz mma is usually just 2 sweaty guys in their underwear hugging aggressively on the ground, but this fight is exactly what i wanna see, which is punching & kicking & blood.

[@bandit6272]

For me the most frustrating people to spar were Kyokushin, judo, and boxing. The judokas with their sweeps and throws The boxers with their head movement and counters The kyokushin folks with those kicks, and they're so relaxed when fighting that it's hard to rattle them

[@bandit6272]

Lol

[@stickgarrote8582]

@@markbowen8461 Mma is not a martial art, it’s a ruleset. There are no mma techniques, only techniques that are allowed in mma.

[@stickgarrote8582]

@@markbowen8461 Mma fighters are the most effective at mma 🤷‍♂ who could have guessed. But there are plenty of actual martial arts with all of those aspects and more. And I’m about 60% water.

[@davidjones8043]

​@@stickgarrote8582nitpicking is a loser trait bro

[@stickgarrote8582]

@@davidjones8043 So is calling others losers, mate.

[@griver007able]

One of the most entertaining fights I have ever seen.

[@Zorro_619]

Lots of great fighters are kyokushin black belts. They incorporate boxing in their style of fighting.

[@emilaubry6856]

Akimoto is scary fast and strong. He looks like one dude you don't want to mess with

[@DixonTV]

he looks like Ip Man to me :)

[@PLSCORPION227]

Akimoto is a good kyokushin karateka, nice body mawashi geris😁👍

[@Richard-Espanol]

Awesome fight! Both fighters fought with everything they had!

Wow, this was a great fight

[@YourBestFriendforToday]

The right straight at 6:55 I think was the precursor to the knock down a few seconds after.

[@DonRightly]

Akimoto 🔥🔥🔥

[@ybu22z]

Classic commentary from the best, Mike"The Voice" Schiavello.

[@decidingpaper6324]

They shouldn’t have let him go

[@Justtalkandrelaxed]

i've learn two traditional martial arts and i combined. first, when i was 16 years old, i try to learn pencak silat. start from 2020. i think its not enough for me and then i'll join the kyokushin karateka start from 2022. I combine the two martial arts, Pencak Silat for flexibility and Kyokushin Karate for strength. and both work well and produce more power.

[@ArtistDaynz90]

kyokushin guys are dominating kickboxing all over

[@achmadyazir1039]

Great fight...

[@Skaxarrat]

9:58 props to Tonna, wearing a shirt of him kissing a guy.

[@davidroose1303]

Kyokushin kaikan 💪💪💪

[@marktuohy1088]

A good fight. Entertaining. Akimoto too has done his training and was too strong and had the better endurance. Tonna’s core strength let him down. But all credit to both fighters! I’m looking forward to seeing more of their fights, especially Tonna as he has some real potential. Well done Aussie!

[@masaya-f7w]

Akimoto's uniquely Japanese atmosphere is similar to that of MMA fighter Kyoji Horiguchi.

[@ShinM.]

Their similarities come from a shared strong Karate background, not their shared ethnicity,

[@SamuelSocceresports]

Shotokan and Kyokushin legends...

[@APXA1]

Kyokushinkai über alles!

[@iramiyahira8301]

Wow Akimoto 😂❤😂

[@aienstein1]

The Mikazuki-geri means “crescent kick" with which Akimoto beat Tonna is a one-hit-kill kick that uses the front of sole to thrust, and although it is a kick that can knock down, it is also able to defense by elbow, so he shouldn't received it. He received too many Mikazuki-geri without defense.

[@user-bj8mm4lv6b]

Kyokushin is no joke

[@JonConsuegra]

THIS is why I love Kyokushin Karate because that style of karate and the one that I train in still to this day, Shotokan Karate have the same mindset when it comes to attacking, be defensive and IMMEDIATELY attack them the minute they come at you with an opening guard🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Gojukid]

Good fight but I was very shocked to see the kyokushin guy not utilize more karate kicks

[@MrAnon-fz2bq]

I admire Tonna's will. 💙💥

[@LOT23550]

素晴らしい試合、コレだから格闘技はやめられない！ どちらの選手も最高でした🙏

[@Kyokushinkaisaitama.yokawadojo]

9:12we call Mikazukigeri「三日月」

[@kaihuku-ly4qo]

クリーンでフェアでいい試合だったなぁ。ありがとうございました。お疲れさまでした。

[@80srocknroller]

Awesome!!!

[@linusspiegel7470]

The kyokushin guy have sharp kicks and great boxing(which is uncommon for art without head punches)

[@psychedashell]

Kyokushin is not an art without head punches. Knockdown competition is a very specific competition ruleset made famous by being bare-knuckle. Shinken Shobu is a less known Kyokushin ruleset because they use gloves for head punches. Semi-Contact uses gloves and head punches - The referees can deem strikes 'Too hard' so I personally believe that it should not be competitive. Non-Contact is something Kyokushin students do compete in, it's great for recovery but it's also very stylised meaning head punches have to arrive unimpeded and in correct form an inch or less from the opponent's head without making contact. Kyokushin students do practice head punches it's just the ruleset that makes them famous that lacks them.

[@Janludvg]

Excellent fight

[@平沢祐司]

TONNA選手の根性がすごいわ 左足もボロボロで、これだけボディでダウンしてるのに何で立てるんだろう？

[@辰-p3g]

一気にレベル上がったな。我々の世代とは大きく変わった極真ですね。

[@健太郎-o6k]

I would like to say one thing. He is not a Kyokushin Karate legend and is not well known.

[@Svendrichskiii]

I disagree ten fold, but I'd like to hear you out. What determines a legend?

[@健太郎-o6k]

@@Svendrichskiii In Kyokushin Karate, he could win in Japanese tournaments, but not in world tournaments. He was not a very strong player, and he was not a household name. Does a player of this caliber really deserve to be called a legend? On the contrary, I ask you.

[@mikuruzako]

​@@健太郎-o6kめちゃくちゃ有名やぞ😂天才や

[@健太郎-o6k]

@@mikuruzako Whether he is famous or not is left to your subjective opinion. However, he is definitely not a legend.

[@vigilantgopher9563]

​@@健太郎-o6k That's a good argument but one could say the competition he's faced in Japanese rules Kickboxing was greater then those in Kyokushin tournaments

[@aldoatangarav9402]

Definance con guantes de 4 onzas va a ser muay thai o kick boxing.....

[@ohajijoiner4301]

Akimoto has great precision and Tonna was slightly behind but definitely needed more volume with his hands.

[@zenbear9952]

He just didn't have the range or couldn't tell what his range was. He kept having to get in close and eat stuff from akimoto to do anything

[@ohajijoiner4301]

@@zenbear9952 going of when he landed shots he didnt keep that front up because it was working for him teeps and more round houses elbows would've been useful but maybe not his style off muay thai

[@ubaldovallefuoco3368]

Rapidità e precisione da vendere

[@__LSP]

plz bring back small gloves kickboxing

[@イーグル-j6q]

秋元もチャンピオンになったころの昔の髪型のほうが強そうに見えて良かったですね

[@luckycharm1]

Damn Akimoto has zero body fat. Lean!

[@左利き-x4n]

蹴りが三日月みたい、ダメージが凄そう下手したら骨より内臓に浸透しそう

[@金神-b5t]

そういうもんだろ

[@aienstein1]

あれ、多分三日月っすね、１Rでスタンディングダウンとったのも三日月だと思う。 じゃないと1発もらっただけであんな体がくの字にならない。

[@ethienosinsky5186]

Tonna looks to be a bit outsized by Akimoto, he still gave him one hell of a fight dropping him in the first round but the round kicks did too much damage

[@simonphoenix3789]

Is there any point to throwing those leg kicks? If you are going for points it might make sense, but compared to a muay thai leg kick, those look like they would take a long long time before any observable effect is going to show up on your opponent's performance. Even with those powerful muay thai leg kicks, it seems like it takes at least five to ten kicks before the other side starts limping. But these quick leg kicks that karate uses don't seem very useful.

[@lucascheng6674]

I mean the fight usually drags out really long so he occasionally throws one leg kick which I can tell gradually impairs the kickboxers mobility

[@isisdaddy1]

Wow. That was tough

[@スリープドッグ]

かっこよすぎ

[@Lancentcx]

Tonna got used to Akimoto’s rhythm and did a decent job timing his punches but just didn’t see some of the lightning fast kicks.

[@evansketches]

Ah, a young and hungry Akimoto😌

[@hangetsukuzunoha2467]

kyokushin when u allow them to hit the head :

[@DONTHASSLETHEHOFF]

The fight was over after the first kick if the referee hadnt stopped it

[@RedSplinter36]

Stop saying Kyokushin fighters don't hit to the face! Yes in traditional Kumite and only in that realm they don't... BUT this is a full contact kickboxing match... HE obviously trains to punch to the face and to take punches to the face. Akimoto is NOT in a kyokushin kumite match here. Its not a weakness unless he didnt cross train or he's fighting back in the 70s! He has brilliantly adopted Kyokushin to this... and lets not forget about the dutch and how they adopted the Kyokushin method to K1 in general. Osu!!!

[@darkdrake13]

Its still a 15+ year habit mixed in with 5 or 6 years of kickboxing training. Under pressure the older habit is gonna resurface.

[@ryanj4475]

That Kyokoshin Kai looks like Muay Thai lol

[@davidjones8043]

Yea so does TKD and ANYTHING THAT USES LEGS 😂 genius comment

[@davidjones8043]

Can tell you know NOTHING about martial arts 😂 watch how his legs move and hips turn, you are clueless

[@ryanj4475]

@@davidjones8043 tkd doesn’t look like Muay Thai u doink lol

[@ryanj4475]

@@davidjones8043 hey fuckwad I’m a 2nd degree in karate and have done Muay Thai for 6 years

[@Pifagorass]

Let me see comments Katate doesn't work 😂 good karate works well ❤

[@johnygoode2239]

Coming from a former and current thai boxer, those kicks are evil! Might need to be studying karate!

[@remoraexocet]

Akimoto peut encore progresser en changeant sa marque de short. Il se préoccupe trop de son short tout au long du match.

[@joereynolds475]

If kyokoshin trained head punches they'd definetly be one of the best striking arts. They'd stand with muay Thai, boxers or even lethwei cos of the bareknuckles and their beast conditioning

[@ppo2424]

We do train head punches in the dojo, but dont use them in competition because we fight breknuckle s you said. They used to do it but there was too much damage being done. I wouldn't object if they used MMA type gloves in competition though.

[@bryanking1428]

They do, it's just not in Kyokushin sports rules. They can practice and compete with other rules and use gloves in training. Also many offshoots like Shin and Ashihara have head punches.

[@staslog1111]

Первый удар, который изучают на каратэ, это прямой удар в голову)) у нас просто не используется на соревнованиях удары в голову, но на тренировках мы это обязательно отрабатываем всевозможные удары руками в голову, у нас их даже больше чем в боксе.

[@luca12957]

Silly that the title says "Kyokushin Karate". this match is fought with kickboxing rules. it doesn't prove any effectiveness of Kyokushin. in fact Tonna turns out to be a mediocre fighter. the value of a fighter is measured by the quality of his opponents

[@The23Anonymous]

How can somebody, who is 26 years old, be concidered a legend?

[@colmivers]

Sime whey day cun bee uh bed speelleer

[@mhajjarzadeh]

nice without damage

[@the.man.and.the.wanderer]

Kyokushin legend? I never heared of that guy.

[@iidabashikarate]

Akimoto has never belonged to kyokushin. He has never won a famous kyokushin tournament. Why is kyokushin a legend?

[@crisalcantara7671]

lol , just comentators hyping up fighters like they always do .

[@bryanking1428]

Yes he is a Karateka; Japan Karate Judge Organization 2005 JKJO Karate-Do MAC Japan Cup Middle School -40kg runner-up[36] 2006 JKJO Karate-Do MAC Japan Cup Middle School -50kg runner-up[37] 2007 JKJO Karate-Do MAC Japan Cup Middle School -40kg runner-up[38] 2007 JKJO All Japan Junior Championship Middle School -55kg runner-up[39] Japanese Fullcontact Karate Organization 2015 JFKO All Japan Full Contact Championship Lightweight Runner-up[40] 2016 JFKO All Japan Full Contact Championship Lightweight 3rd Place[41] 2017 JFKO All Japan Full Contact Championship Lightweight Champion[42] Kyokushin World Federation 2016 KWF Russian Open Lightweight 1st Place 2017 KWF Karate Grand Prix Lightweight Champion[43] 2017 KWF Karate European Championship 70 kg 3rd Place[44] 2018 KWF Karate Grand Prix Lightweight Runner-up[45] Professional Kyokushin World Fighting Kyokushin Organization 2018 WFKO World Pro Kyokushin -65kg Champion[46]

[@fantomghost6213]

Brave attempt by the Aussie but this dude a little too good. He almost had him at one stage though!!

[@Aceo_0]

Kickboxing is basically European Karate

[@pearlkun27]

相手もタフすぎる

[@Grainz_music]

Kickboxing in 4 ouncers is nuts

[@ybu22z]

Kickboxing in small gloves!

[@ThePeacePlant]

First time I seen this. I thought it was Muay Thai at first

[@marshapelo9830]

Mma gloves.

[@lostone777]

Real karate equals pain

[@Mike64BavSwi]

Looks like sport studio, not like a professional fight

[@ZoRo-vx9ky]

아키모토~ 하드웨어로 이겼네...

[@Dyi-s3b]

倒し切れなかった。残念。

[@ОБОРОРОНЯШКА]

Боевому искусству они не пробовали учиться?

[@ivanriverajr5012]

How is the japanese dude 5'6, white boy 5'7? Japanese dude definitely taller more like 5'9😂

[@geloescobar]

Kyokushin could be near perfection if you could punch in the face while sparring

[@Slade-2556]

If the gym allows gloves you certainly can

[@joostfloot5279]

I train kickboxing at a kyokushin gym, most of the serious members come spar with us at kickboxing days.

[@iROChakri]

Lmfao, Kyokushin + punch in the face? then its just Muay thai

[@geloescobar]

@@iROChakri close, but not close enought

[@iROChakri]

@geloescobar No, it's just Muay thai. Even now, most people can't even tell many differences. Kyokushin is already more Muay Thai than Karate itself, lol

[@AdrisArcade]

Lowkey akimoto needs to do muay thai bruh he don't know what to with his hands

[@สุพจน์ศิลประกอบ]

เตะที่ขาบ่อยๆและเตะที่แขนบ่อยๆด้วยสินานๆทีเตะก้านคอเลย

[@hytube999]

Karate > kick boxing

[@user-zv8pr4je4g]

Kickboxing star? 🥱

[@hkl614]

Ring girls have the same face. Looks a bit like the Guy Fawks mask

[@kaysonekaysone6245]

Zero head movement = brain damage

[@samuelgarciajeronimo4313]

Pónganle a un mexicano

[@marshapelo9830]

Plastic surgery on the ring girls are horrendous.

[@機関砲]

極真のつまらん我慢試合より面白いね

[@therevenantgames2547]

Who?😂

[@InshalHassan-r4s]

I just knew tonna would lose just after watching his low testosterone physique , His shoulders gave that away

[@АНИМАТИК-щ5п]

Руками в пузо бить киокушиновцу бесполезно, они набитые ребята.

[@stevwilliskivoch2604]

Talk about out classed by a bunch soft belly

[@ATHREN69]

kickboxing star? yeah right.......

[@digdug23]

Kyokushin Karate doesn't have punches to the face as though he didn't learn punches to the face and only using karate attacks🤣🤣 Akimoto isn't used to being punched in the face .🤣🤣 Isn't he a kick boxer and muay Thai fighter/mma fighter?

[@penttikoivuniemi2146]

Yeah, I don't get why commentators always get a hard-on for Kyokushin. Much of what he did in this match was clear Muay Thai, the only Kyokushin-specific technique he throws is the high roundhouse kick. Although to be honest, both styles have nearly identical basic punches so maybe you could say his punches come from Kyokushin originally.

[@digdug23]

@penttikoivuniemi2146 Yeah, he originally started in karate, but he started doing kicked boxing and Muay thai before he fought in this. They act as though he straight out of karate school fighting this dude.

[@crisalcantara7671]

@@penttikoivuniemi2146 lol , kyokushin has low kicks and punches to the face , they dissalowed face punches in toutnaments to avoid bloody face smashings , anyway the comentators are hyping fighters up to much wich is true but don't take away from kyokushin and act like only muay thai has low kicks and knees brow 🤣🤣

[@penttikoivuniemi2146]

@@crisalcantara7671 I'm not saying it doesn't, but Akimoto throws low kicks exactly in the way Muay Thai teaches them rather than Kyokushin. Funny that you would say that to me, since I actually think Muay Thai is the most over-hyped martial art in the world. Sure it works, but it consists almost completely of the most basic striking imaginable and I absolutely hate the traditional rear-weighted stance. And the scoring and rule set of actual MT matches is hot garbage.

[@johnny427]

@@penttikoivuniemi2146 I practiced kyokushinkai and we learned at our small dojo at least 3 different ways for roundhouse kicks to the leg. Anyways we sparred a lot and we did what was the most effective, and as far as I know almost all dojo had this method in my country (and this is the way of kyokushinkai). You haven't practiced kyokushinkai anyways, have you?

[@madmaster3d]

this isnt karate legend when he use muay thai kicks style &.... its muay thai or kickboxing vs kickboxing not karate karate cant win vs muay thai or kickboxing & this red guy seems newbie

[@nicoche4310]

Please do not expose your crass ignorance to everyone.

[@madmaster3d]

@@nicoche4310 muay thai is best

[@Kiritoloquendero2007]

Ignorant

[@paulalfredpascual1437]

I train mixed martial arts today

[@kazoon7777]

お姉さんの整形顔から目が離せません

[@sarutobi_sasuke]

9:27 左の子、整形感が凄い。

[@readspenser3888]

いや両方でしょwなんでこんなんがラウンドガールなのか理解に苦しむw

[@みた-f2y]

間合いに入って顔をさらしすぎに思います 右ストレートを打てたらもっと楽に勝てたかも

[@ronimaka2425]

空手家あるあるだよなぁ、間合いの取り方上手くなったら面白そう

[@SalvadorjrDumalaon]

That Japanese is not a better fighter,i see

[@takemiya9918]

koしろよ

[@Rutisyougun]

同じAkiでもAkiyamaとは違うね

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

Never seen a man take so much punishment...dude is a zombie and a "Human Sponge"😮 🧽🧽🧽

[@พุทธกองพิธี-ฑ9ฬ]

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