Aerts vs Hug Was Real Life Mortal Kombat - K1 Grand Prix Bout # 7

[@adambulmash6880]

This seems like a good time to mention that, when Aerts learned of Hug’s untimely passing, he broke down sobbing and was completely inconsolable for over 2 hours. He then dedicated his forthcoming performance at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 Final to Hug. These men weren’t just rivals. They were friends and colleagues.

[@imagineumnomefoda500]

Aerts also stated that as soon as he heard about Andy's health state, he and his wife went straight to the Hospital.

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

I had no idea, did they hang out or was that just the respect he had from sharing the ring with him so many times?

[@emmanuelawosusi2365]

​@@TheModernMartialArtistkarate combat needs more mauy thai and kickboxers

[@wasabi5338]

bond forged by fire. similar to Gatti and Ward.

[@Lazer_steak]

Yeah i remember reading that, to have fights like they did would only give each other massive respect. Both of them are legends

[@someboi4903]

The fact that Modern Martial Artist is making more Muay Thai and kickboxing content recently makes me really happy

[@noahstewart6181]

the old K-1 fights are already the best ever caught on video but the narration you provide and the choice of words you use gives these videos an unmatched energy that makes them even more thrilling to watch......keep up the amazing work.

[@arrownibent5980]

The axe kick splitting guard to allow for a punch through the middle is indeed crazy stuff, imagine having a skillset that let's you pull that fluidly mid fight

[@kaliduncanel3356]

Yeah everyone concentrates on the kick itself but, overlook it's effectiveness as a dynamic entry. It forces a reaction

[@m.b.82]

I doubt that was 100% the plan

[@Squige137]

If he had the bloodflow to spare, being able to pull that off accidentally or otherwise 100% would have resulted in a stiffy.

[@dominiquejones6849]

Yeah, pretty much the only other time I see anyone get that off is in Tekken

[@crisalcantara7671]

​@@dominiquejones6849well speaking of tekken, jin kazama fighing style change to kyokushin since tekken 4 and his motion capture is a kyokushin champion.ryu narushima

[@MehrdadParthian]

5:45 - 5:48, this exchange is so epic, Hug's roundhouse gets checked by aerts, they square up, Hug goes for an intercept on the jab so aerts instead throws a cross that Hug parries, then slips under aerts's left hook to land an overhand which just misses aerts's head by centimeters and then the two disperse. like two lions who recognized game. Beautiful

[@honigdachs.]

Man I miss those times. K-1 was awesome and these guys are legends. Hug, Aerts, Ernesto Hoost, Semmy Schilt, Glaube Feitosa, Remy Bonjasky, Jérôme Le Banner, CroCop ... it was the absolute melting pot of high level Muay Thai, Karate and Kickboxing. Nowadays I like ONE and Karate Combat, but there's something special about the golden age of Kickboxing and that's likely never gonna be repeated.

[@kingcarrot6355]

EVERYTHING peaked in the 90's..... No you're wrong, literally EVERYTHING!

[@timw.5030]

Man I wanted Aerts to win that. Just reading someone's comment that Aerts broke down when Hug passed is sad. Good vid!

[@daves4081]

man I loved watching this as a kid, I snuck some snacks and soda to my room, watched the matches with a cover over the TV and myself so the light wouldnt alert my folks 🙂

[@StimmedPenguin]

Love me some axe kick and spinning hook low kick action. I’ve never seen it ever performed at Hug’s level in high level kickboxing ever again.

[@drinfernodds]

It's very high risk, high reward. Hug was a fantastic karateka who had the skill and speed to pull off his moves.

[@Tenchigumi]

@@drinfernodds His setups and follow-ups were great too. He started the fight with a spinning back kick to the body. Later on with the same motion, a Hug tornado. And after that, with the same motion, a spinning backfist. Once he has you stepping backwards, it's a rough night.

[@Wladislav]

Great memories of Peter Aerts during this tournaments and others around this time. The Lumberjack! And of course RIP to the legend Andy Hug.

[@closefomo]

I was lucky enough to have met both Peter Aerts and Semmy Schilt in a stay in the Netherlands, both outstanding fighters and really nice guys

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

Like you took a seminar or you randomly ran into them at a bar? lol

[@closefomo]

A friend of mine had actually gotten into a confrontation with Mr Aerts in a bar! He sure is a lucky guy Peter Aerts hadn’t taken up his offer!

[@drinfernodds]

​@closefomo did your friend know who Aerts was when he tried to fight him?😊

[@emmanuelawosusi2365]

​@@TheModernMartialArtist karate combat needs more mauy thai fighters and kickboxers

[@kevthegoat8774]

​@@closefomoPlease tell more 😂

[@juhel5531]

Normal people: keep it simple, overhead elbow or uppercut down the middle to split a tight guard Hug: let's put some Tekken into this fight and hit em with the forward 4 Heihachi axe kick and follow up with a lunging forwarJin demon's paw.

[@crisalcantara7671]

More like f f 3 , 1 jin move😂

[@KingKong_CH]

Nice😂

[@hussard2062]

Loved this channel for years, especially how respectful you are towards the fighters (calling them by their surname, major pet peeve when people call them by their first. Like what you know the guy or something lol😂). 90’s kickboxing is peak combat sports; the fighters, the styles, the matchups. Hug’s my dads favourite fighter, one of the first fighters I ever watched. Hug definitely has one of the best repertoires concerning kicks.

[@mikewayne3118]

Im Swiss and Andy Hug is a Hero for many of us. He is like the Guys who fight when Switzerland was young and beat up Europe.

[@Tenchigumi]

I'm convinced Andy Hug was the martial arts inspiration for Kazuya in the very first Tekken game.

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

Apparently he helped with choreography for one of the Street Fighter cartoons.

[@Tenchigumi]

@@TheModernMartialArtist Did not know that. That's the kind of trivia I need in my life.

[@bigsnakesolidboss4295]

Street Fighter 2: The animated movie to be precise.

[@lakebastreetrental]

7:48 the "axe kick to straight right" hand was actually a left hand, remember Andy Hug is a southpaw.

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

Bro this is a combat sports channel, you can't expect me to know my left from my right :p

[@ciaosonoAlbertoG]

Hug really was a wildman. Reminds me of Wonderboy with the crazy karate

[@Disconnect350]

Hug, Filho and Greco were leagues above that bum.

[@tzahi12370]

​@@Disconnect350 Feitosa too, all kyokushin killers

[@kevthegoat8774]

​@@Disconnect350Wonderboy isn't a bum but yes they were all much more accomplished

[@filipcesnjak2944]

Francisco Filho, Semmy Schilt and Andy Hug were Kyokushin karate practitioners, that is full contact karate and that is why they had so much success in K1 ... in UFC most famous Kyokushin karate practitioner is GSP ... all that proves is that Kyokushin need just a litle semething extra (head punches and throws) to be top tier ... OSU.

[@someboi4903]

Tenshin Nasukawa and Takeru Segawa also had backgrounds in knockdown karate and ended up as ATG level fighters in their weight class as well

[@daviddaimary7734]

GSP became the best wrestler in his division and had the best jab seen in MMA.

[@ADAM_COLLECTS]

honestly, between Hug, Aerts and Hoost, you’ve got three that could win the K1 GP every year and practically did.

[@WaddupYa]

How about Bonjasky and Schilt

[@thebrownbaldy]

Those kicks hurt just looking at them. R.I.P. Blue Eye Samurai

[@shortie9103]

I ain't gon' lie, that highlight reel makes the martial art seem real savage

[@andreasbulunmaz136]

RIP Andy! On this Fight, You were the BETTER Fighter!

[@AngryGrape1337]

Real life Mortal Kombat? As if, we all know K-1 is more like real life Tekken where fighters not only have a unique style (Kyokushin, Dutch, Muay Thai, etc.) but a unique set of tactics and gameplan.

[@ra-ge]

Both were warriors, R.I.P to Andy the axe murderer

[@svenwalther135]

Two of the all-time best fighter

[@pauliedibbs9028]

Hug was without a doubt the fighter’s fighter…

[@jessebell1930]

Great vid as always mate. I was very young when this one happened. Had totally forgotten about the axe-kick-punch combo...yeesh!

[@astrumespanol]

How this video has so little views after one hour? Fuck KZbin's algorithm

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

I've been confused at the ctr being so low on my latest videos so I turned off notifications for this one. So far ctr is double the usual and watch time is 30 percent higher. So either there are bots ruining my algorithm or the people who frequent the sub page don't click on my stuff as much as those who use browse. I'm guessing the first, because why would my own subs have a lower ctr? I'm going to see if the video picks up in a while since the ctr is so much higher than usual. If not I can always rerelease it with the notifications activated.

[@ShippyJack]

​@TheModernMartialArtist I didn't see this video in my subscriptions feed. I saw your survey from earlier today about mma fighters, but not this video. Came across this randomly when scrolling/browsing.

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

Yeah that's what I selected. It's really weird because I would expect a much higher ctr from the subscription feed. And that's the place KZbin mostly shows your video during the first hours and even the first days. But the stats are twice as good in the browse. Makes no sense. But KZbin didn't take the impressions it would have given to the sub feed and notifications and put it in browse, it just didn't give me those impressions lol So I'm going to see if it ramps up impressions with the better stats or if the video just dies. If it just flatlines then I'll upload it again tomorrow with notifications on, but not sure what to do about the weird statistics in that case.

[@nukarr]

​@TheModernMartialArtist popped up on my feed ... I watch a few combat sport vids but mostly sci-fi films of YT

[@jasonlommen4769]

90’s, early 2000’s were kickboxing glory. Man what fighters in that era. Ernesto Houst was my favorite.

[@victorsanchez-castro8944]

These are my favorite videos from this channel

[@4n6]

Weird this video still hasn't shown up when looking through my subscription videos. I don't get You-Tube sometimes good thing I was notified on the discord about it.

[@MisterVolts]

Kaewan... Back when men fought like men in combat sports. Honorably at that. A true Fight Club! Mad respect for Aerts and Hüt.

[@helderboymh]

Cant wait for the next video in this series.

[@Hispaniasehunde]

That combats were really wars…the golden years 😢

[@Mindlabytinth]

If I'd seen an axe kick-to-lead straight combo actually used live, I'd have lost my damn mind.

[@radec1744]

I am glad to see some K-1 videos as its a tournament not as widely known as UFC or others. I tell my friends of it and they shrug it off as mothing more than an inferior UFC tournament

[@cobb6001]

This was incredible!

[@DrunkenDarwin]

Just realized Jin Kazama from tekken definitely uses Hug's axe kick and spinning low kick

[@crisalcantara7671]

Those are kyokushin moves yes

[@crisalcantara7671]

Also jin's motion capture is ryu narushima a kyokushin karate champion

[@minecraftkingest4116]

its funny that people don't know that Dutch kickboxing literally is Kyokushin so they're both Kyokushin fighters

[@crisalcantara7671]

True

[@小出麻里2002]

アンディは日本のスーパーヒーローです。

[@leoalcaraz6153]

Love this fight it looks less like a kicking match and more like something between a chess match and someone playing tekken

[@Vaterunser904]

Beautiful fight thank you guys

[@MrYoumitube]

I have never seen Aerts hurt by constant leg kicks until now. I guess he also would have had damage from the previous fights...either way the heart and toughness by Hug going up against such bigger fighters is so inspirational. r.i.p

[@andrewmann3787]

I actually met andy hug In luzern when i went with the briish kyokushin team He was on the stand selling tournament shirts.

[@mohammedestath982]

Great video, please do a breakdown of masato next

[@mikedlc9766]

beautiful break down

[@SuperKendoman]

Ooh god that spinning back kick looks really painful. Hug must have at least shattered quite a few shins back then

[@sirsnipes-a-lot4831]

I've been wondering if there's an mma/kickboxing equivalent of a Floyd Mayweather, maybe that could be an interesting topic. Love the vids by the way 🔥

[@RickLilShore]

This video isn't showing on my Subscriptions-page for some reason

[@lancerichards1419]

Can you do these types of videos for k-1 Max to

[@romanpelukh7559]

Thank you

[@thebritishbookworm2649]

Brilliant video 📹

[@パンツの色を知りたがりやさん]

私は日本人に生まれて良かった会場で実際に何回も見ることができたのですから

[@RossKempOnYourMum01]

Reminds me of Fury/Wilder 2 with Aerts/Fury denying range by walking in and pressuring as the larger man.

[@tobyway5093]

Legends

[@ireland2657]

Great fight

[@ifearnothing0]

Great vid bro .. any way you can include some original audio ? Think it would add some emersion

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

The crowd is super quiet because it's Japan and the commentary is in Japanese. Otherwise I would haha

[@d15z1sux]

I seen the monk in Perth with the bracelet asking for donations

[@Daylamite]

K-1 in the days was the real thing

[@MarJin727]

Hug vs Hust 97 best fight ever

[@pyrotechnick420]

RIP Andy

[@aldavis9696]

These guys were good in a fixed setting. This was until cage fighting... Once wrestlers and jiujitsu masters were thrown into the mix, shit changed.

[@seyo8068]

When only real man used to fight….

[@ronaldwhite1730]

thank you . ( 2024 / Jan / 03 )

[@MrGenedancingmachine]

I thought the guy brought an axe into the ring

[@gdub8847]

I also crossed swords with my greatest rivals

[@carlosvafo7845]

Esto no es un deporte, simplemente es un ¡ crimen legal ¡

[@curbantula]

They should have let the samurai use his sword

[@kurhooni5924]

the oposte of mortal combat like street fighter, no weapons, and no finish him^^

[@getlostlser]

BREAK DOWN SUPERBON

[@user-pn3io5oy3i]

How is this like Mortal Combat???

[@nukarr]

It's not thats the MAKAI REALM of Japanese mythological Underworld & very very few people have ever been there. My Ocifu was Makai priest who I defeated twice. Which makes me Makai Makai - in Japanese myth the Boy Dancer benevolent God who comes from the sea & yes its the Energy Martial Art which is difficult to teach either you have it or you don't. The ability to be able to "see" the energy is key & instinctive "knowing". Some say it's genetic others say it's magical Idk ...I just know I could do it & could "see" things others couldn't. It wasn't until I met a young woman who was BORN with the gift that I finally knew I wasn't nuts just different from other people.

[@bluemild9357]

모탈컴뱃은 아닌데, 앤디 훅은 영원히 !

[@ramyanthony4615]

Savages.

[@moenibus]

i would love to see any of todays mma clowns, trying a couple of rounds against any of these grand prix guys

[@newstreamofthought853]

Ahh I wish you would not make things up! Both of these guys fought different opponents before each other. Hug KO’ed Sataake quick and Aerts went through 3 rounds to KO Bernardo with a body kick.

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

Yes I said that, I have videos covering those fights for this series even. I said they had fought previously, not that same night lmao

[@joshualafrance2352]

Tommy Karate????

[@purebloodheretic4682]

Andy was such a Beautiful Warrior! Such a Terrible Loss to MMA - The Gods called him home to Valhalla 🤍😞🥀

[@ColinSawyer-q1x]

Thanks for repeating whats happening on the screen. I never would have figured it out by watching the video hahahaha

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

Wow I guess you should make your own videos saying more in depth things and get 100s of thousands of subs that way and praise from several all time greats while making a great living off a martial arts. You totally could, you just don't want to :) Merry xmas!

[@tysonrolls9713]

Hug died of lymphoma cancer I think it's from peds and weight cutting. steroids and low body fat overwhelmed the lymph glands not a doctor just my guess

[@nukarr]

I was looking for this comment.. yep 100% Steroids The Steroids Era caused tons of guys to have their hearts explode that 1 famous Dutch fighter & get cancers of all types Lyle Alzado the famous Raiders NFL football player talked about it ..he died of brain cancer. HGH TEST DECA TREN etc all that stuff can give you cancers Weight cutting & being JACKED oh for sure the body in normal circumstances LOSES strength but with Roids & HGH human growth hormone ...you're setting yourself up for it.

[@nukarr]

Btw ... it's not just fighters ...post Menopausal women are given testosterone & progesterone & estrogen since their body doesn't make it after the ovaries dry up & die & their getting cancers also from these drugs. Lately doctors have been cutting dosages to bare minimums to prevent side effects-cancers

[@jefferycook3131]

Then came the thai fighters and owned k1 so they robbed them of their elbows to make it more fair for the challengers but still didnt quite work as well as planned

[@joopkerver3767]

RIP Champ!😢

[@cockylockridge8644]

@7:46 not true. Mark "the wizard" Weir vs Eugene Jackson, ufc 38, Weir ko'd Jackson with a crescent axe kick into a Jab.