2016 in K-1

The year 2016 is the 24th year in the history of the K-1.

2016 in K-1
Information
First date	March 4
Events
Fights
Chronology
2015 in K-1 2016 in K-1 2017 in K-1

List of events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
1	K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament	March 4, 2016	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	Tokyo, Japan
2	K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament	April 24, 2016	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	Tokyo, Japan
3	K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament	June 24, 2016	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	Tokyo, Japan
4	K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament	September 19, 2016	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	Tokyo, Japan
5	K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -95kg Tournament	October 27, 2016	Crowne Plaza Belgrade	Belgrade, Serbia
6	K-1 World GP 2016 Featherweight Championship Tournament	November 3, 2016	Yoyogi National Gymnasium	Tokyo, Japan
7	K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -85kg Tournament	December 3, 2016	SKPC Mejdan	Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament
Promotion	K-1
Date	March 4, 2016
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
City	Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
K-1 World GP 2015 The Championship K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament was a kickboxing event held on March 4, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
65kg	Hideaki Yamazaki	def.	Masaaki Noiri	Decision (majority)	3	3:00	-65kg Tournament Final
65kg	Kaew Fairtex	def.	Massaro Glunder	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
60kg	Johannes Wolf	def.	Hirotaka Urabe	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
65kg	Hideaki Yamazaki	def.	Yuta Kubo	KO	3	2:57	-65kg Tournament Semi Final
65kg	Masaaki Noiri	def.	Hiroya	Decision (majority)	3	3:00	-65kg Tournament Semi Final
Heavyweight	Makoto Uehara	def.	Nori	KO	1	2:06
70kg	Yu Hirono	def.	Kotetsu	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
65kg	Yuta Kubo	def.	Noman	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Hideaki Yamazaki	def.	Yasuomi Soda	KO	2	0:32	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Hiroya	def.	Naoki Terasaki	KO	1	2:19	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Masaaki Noiri	def.	Minoru Kimura	KO	1	2:54	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Kohei Nishikawa	def.	Daiki Yoshinuma	Extra round decision (unanimous)	4	3:00	-65kg Tournament Reserve Fight
Preliminary Card
70kg	Katsuya Jinbo	def.	Go-Oh	KO	3	1:40
65kg	Mitsuhara Waki	draw	Daiki Matsushita	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
55kg	Yuki Egawa	def.	Reiji Kasami	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00

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K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Masaaki Noiri

KO

Minoru Kimura

1R.

Masaaki Noiri

DEC

Hiroya

2-0

Naoki Terashima

1R.

Hiroya

KO

Masaaki Noiri

2-0

Hideaki Yamazaki

DEC

Yasuomi Soda

2R.

Hideaki Yamazaki

KO

Hideaki Yamazaki

KO

Yuta Kubo

3R.

Yuta Kubo

DEC

Noman

3-0

K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament
Promotion	K-1
Date	April 24, 2016
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
City	Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg Japan Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament was a kickboxing event held on April 24, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
60kg	Taiga	def.	Koya Urabe	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-60kg Tournament Final
56kg	Takeru Segawa	def.	Yoadsenchai Sor. Sopit	TKO	3	0:48
65kg	Kaew Fairtex	def.	Ilias Bulaid	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
60kg	Paulo Tebar	def.	Hirotaka Urabe	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
60kg	Koya Urabe	def.	Kotaro Shimano	KO	2	0:51	-60kg Tournament Semi Final
60kg	Taiga	def.	Toshi	KO	1	0:54	-60kg Tournament Semi Final
70kg	Yoichi Yamazaki	def.	Daiki Watabe	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
70kg	Kazuya Akimoto	def.	Shintaro Matsukura	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
60kg	Koya Urabe	def.	Kouzi	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-60kg Tournament Quarter Final
60kg	Kotaro Shimano	def.	Hitoshi Aketo	KO	1	2:55	-60kg Tournament Quarter Final
60kg	Toshi	def.	Leona Pettas	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-60kg Tournament Quarter Final
60kg	Taiga	def.	Masahiro Yamamoto	KO	1	1:47	-60kg Tournament Quarter Final
60kg	Shota Kanbe	def.	Masanobu Goshu	Extra round decision (split)	4	3:00	-60kg Tournament Reserve Fight
Preliminary Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
65kg	Yuto Shinohara	def.	Yuki Koge	KO	2	1:13
70kg	Tomoaki Makino	def.	Masato Uchiyama	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
60kg	Takuma Kawaguchi	def.	Naoki Yamamoto	Decision (majority)	3	3:00

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K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Masahiro Yamamoto

1R.

Taiga

KO

Taiga

KO

Toshi

1R.

Leona Pettas

3-0

Toshi

DEC

Taiga

DEC

Koya Urabe

3-0

Shimano Kotaro

KO

Hitoshi Aketo

1R.

Shimano Kotaro

2R.

Koya Urabe

KO

Koya Urabe

DEC

Kouzi (kickboxer)

3-0

K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament
Promotion	K-1
Date	June 24, 2016
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
City	Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg Japan Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament was a kickboxing event held on June 24, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
65kg	Kaew Fairtex	def.	Ilias Bulaid	KO	2	2:25	-65kg Tournament Final
57kg	Takeru Segawa	def.	Kaito Ozawa	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
70kg	Yasuhiro Kido	def.	Daiki Watabe	Deicion (unanimous)	3	3:00
65kg	Kaew Fairtex	def.	Masaaki Noiri	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-65kg Tournament Semi Final
65kg	Ilias Bulaid	def.	Hideaki Yamazaki	Extra round decision (split)	4	3:00	-65kg Tournament Semi Final
60kg	Yun Qi	def.	Kosuke Komiyama	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
Heavyweight	Makoto Uehara	def.	Tsutomu Takahagi	TKO	1	0:32
65kg	Kaew Fairtex	def.	Hiroya	KO	1	0:36	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Masaaki Noiri	def.	Massaro Glunder	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Ilias Bulaid	def.	Chris Mauceri	KO	2	0:50	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Hideaki Yamazaki	def.	Stanislav Renita	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-65kg Tournament Quarter Final
65kg	Minoru Kimura	def.	Noman	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	-65kg Tournament Reserve Fight
Preliminary Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
65kg	Haruma Saikyo	def.	Taio Asahisa	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
Heavyweight	Keiji	def.	Hitoshi Sugimoto	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
65kg	Mitsuhara Waki	def.	Seiya Ueda	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00

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K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Hideaki Yamazaki

DEC

Stanislav Renita

3-0

Hideaki Yamazaki

2-1

Ilias Bulaid

4R.

Ilias Bulaid

KO

Chris Mauceri

2R.

Ilias Bulaid

2R.

Kaew Fairtex

KO

Massaro Glunder

3-0

Masaaki Noiri

DEC

Masaaki Noiri

3-0

Kaew Fairtex

DEC

Kaew Fairtex

KO

Hiroya

1R.

K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament
Promotion	K-1
Date	September 19, 2016
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
City	Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
K-1 World GP 2016 -65kg World Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 -95kg Championship Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament was a kickboxing event held on September 19, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.

Fight Card

Main Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Super Featherweight	Koya Urabe	def.	Taiga	TKO (3 Knockdowns)	1	1:31	Super Featherweight Tournament Final
Super Lightweight	Kongnapa Weerasakreck	def.	Hideaki Yamazaki	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Heavyweight	Makoto Uehara	def.	Koichi	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Lightweight	Kenta Hayashi	def.	Yuji Takeuchi	KO (3 Knockdowns)	1	2:47
Super Featherweight	Koya Urabe	def.	Paulo Tebar	KO (Punches)	2	0:58	Super Featherweight Tournament Semi Final
Super Featherweight	Taiga	def.	Hirotaka Urabe	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Super Featherweight Tournament Semi Final
65kg	Kazuma Mori	def.	Hong Jingyao	KO	3	0:27	K-1 College 2016 -65kg Final
60kg	Kosuke Morii	def.	Michitaka Uchida	Decision (majority)	3	2:00	K-1 College 2016 -60kg Final
55kg	Yuta Kuwata	def.	Yu Nomura	KO	3	1:22	K-1 College 2016 -55kg Final
Super Featherweight	Kosuke Komiyama	def.	Paulo Tebar	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Super Featherweight Tournament Quarter Final
Super Featherweight	Koya Urabe	def.	Karim Bennoui	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Super Featherweight Tournament Quarter Final
Super Featherweight	Hirotaka Urabe	def.	Johannes Wolf	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Super Featherweight Tournament Quarter Final
Super Featherweight	Taiga	def.	Javier Hernández	TKO (retirement)	2	3:00	Super Featherweight Tournament Quarter Final
Super Featherweight	Kouzi	def.	Toshi	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Super Featherweight Tournament Reserve Fight
Preliminary Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Super Featherweight	Masanobu Goshu	def.	Yuta Takahashi	Decision (majority)	3	3:00
Heavyweight	K-Jee	def.	Yoshinari	KO	2	1:23
Featherweight	Kento Ito	draw	Ryusei Ashizawa	Decision (majority)	3	3:00

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K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Taiga

TKO

Javier Hernández

2R

Taiga

DEC

Hirotaka Urabe

3-0

Hirotaka Urabe

DEC

Johannes Wolf

3-0

Taiga

1R

Koya Urabe

KO

Koya Urabe

DEC

Karim Bennoui

3-0

Koya Urabe

KO

Paulo Tebar1

2R

Kosuke Komiyama

DEC

Paulo Tebar

3-0

¹ Komiyama injured, so Tebar advanced.

K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -95kg Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -95kg Tournament
Promotion	K-1
Date	October 27, 2016
Venue	Crowne Plaza Belgrade
City	Belgrade, Serbia

K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -95kg Tournament was a kickboxing event held on October 27, 2016 at the Crowne Plaza Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia.

Fight Card

Main Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
95kg	Roman Kryklia	def.	Fabio Kwasi	KO (Knee)	3		95kg Europe Tournament Final
95kg	Fabio Kwasi	def.	Rade Opačić	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	95kg Europe Tournament Semi Final
95kg	Roman Kryklia	def.	Atha Kasapis	KO (Knee)	3		95kg Europe Tournament Semi Final
95kg	Fabio Kwasi	def.	Mladen Kujundžić	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	95kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
95kg	Rade Opačić	def.	Emmanuel Payet	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	95kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
95kg	Atha Kasapis	def.	Aundre Groce	TKO (Right hook)	1		95kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
95kg	Roman Kryklia	def.	Bahrudin Mahmić	KO (Knee to the head)	1	2:33	95kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
95kg	Vasil Ducar	def.	Panagiotis Theodosiadis	Decision	3	3:00	95kg Europe Tournament Reserve fight
Preliminary Card
60kg	Marina Spasić	def.	Merima Basić	Decision	3	3:00
71kg	Sayfullah Hambahadov	def.	Marko Adamović	Decision	3	3:00

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K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -95kg Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Roman Kryklia

KO

Bahrudin Mahmić

1

Roman Kryklia

KO

Atha Kasapis

3

Atha Kasapis

TKO

Aundre Groce

3

Roman Kryklia

KO

Fabio Kwasi

2

Rade Opačić

DEC

Emmanuel Payet

3-0

Fabio Kwasi

DEC

Rade Opačić

3-0

Fabio Kwasi

DEC

Mladen Kujundžić

3-0

K-1 World GP 2016 Featherweight World Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament
Promotion	K-1
Date	November 3, 2016
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
City	Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
K-1 World GP 2016 -60kg World Tournament K-1 World GP 2016 Super Featherweight World Tournament K-1 World GP 2017

K-1 World GP 2016 Featherweight World Tournament was a kickboxing event held on November 3, 2016 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.

Fight Card

Main Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Takeru	def.	Kaito Ozawa	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Featherweight GP Final
Super Welterweight	Sanny Dahlbeck	def.	Yasuhiro Kido	KO (Overhand + Left Knee)	1	2:09
Welterweight	Yuta Kubo	def.	Keita Makihira	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Super Lightweight	Yasuomi Soda	def.	Fawad Seddiqi	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Featherweight	Takeru	def.	Yun Qi	TKO (Punches)	2	2:31	Featherweight GP Semi Final
Featherweight	Kaito Ozawa	def.	Elias Mahmoudi	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Featherweight Tournament Semi Final
65kg	Kensei Kondo	def.	Kai Honma	Decision (unanimous)	3	2:00	K-1 Koshien 2016 -65kg Final
60kg	Yuma Saikyo	def.	Takumi Yokoyama	Decision (unanimous)	3	2:00	K-1 Koshien 2016 -60kg Final
55kg	Taito Gunji	def.	Tatsuya Tsubakihara	Decision (unanimous)	3	2:00	K-1 Koshien 2016 -55kg Final
Featherweight	Takeru	def.	Jamie Whelan	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Featherweight GP Quarter Final
Featherweight	Yun Qi	def.	Shota Kanbe	Decision (unanimous)	3	1:32	Featherweight GP Quarter Final
Featherweight	Elias Mahmoudi	def.	Ryuma Tobe	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Featherweight GP Quarter Final
Featherweight	Kaito Ozawa	def.	Josh Tonna	KO (Knee to the body)	1	0:57	Featherweight GP Quarter Final
Featherweight	Hirotaka Asahisa	def.	Yuka Otaki	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Featherweight GP Reserve Fight
Preliminary Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Rukiya Anpo	def.	Hisaki Higashimoto	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Super Lightweight	Yuto Shinohara	def.	Tatsuya Mineyama	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Super Bantamweight	Yuki Egawa	def.	Ryota	KO	1	1:15

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K-1 World GP 2016 Featherweight World Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Kaito Ozawa

KO

Josh Toner

1R

Kaito Ozawa

DEC

Elias Mahmoudi

3-0

Ryuma Tobe

3-0

Elias Mahmoudi

DEC

Kaito Ozawa

3-0

Takeru

DEC

Shota Kanbe

DEC

Yun Qi

3-0

Yun Qi

2R

Takeru

TKO

Takeru

DEC

Jamie Whelan

3-0

K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -85kg Tournament

K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -85kg Tournament
Promotion	K-1
Date	December 3, 2016
Venue	SKPC Mejdan
City	Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -85kg Tournament was a kickboxing event held on December 3, 2016 at the SKPC Mejdan in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Fight Card

Main Card
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
85kg	Timur Aylyarov	def.	Igor Emkić	KO (Body shots)	3		85kg Europe Tournament Final
71kg	Haris Biber	def.	Rafal Gorka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
70kg	Giannis Skordilis	def.	Maycon Oller	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
85kg	Timur Aylyarov	def.	Agron Preteni	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	85kg Europe Tournament Semi Final
85kg	Igor Emkić	def.	David Radeff	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	85kg Europe Tournament Semi Final
85kg	David Radeff	def.	Nikola Noveski	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	85kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
85kg	Igor Emkić	def.	Giuseppe De Domenico	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	85kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
85kg	Agron Preteni	def.	Imanol Rodriguez	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00	85kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
85kg	Timur Aylyarov	def.	Vasil Ducar	TKO			85kg Europe Tournament Quarter Final
85kg	Mesud Selimovic	def.	Peter Jaman	KO (Left hook)	1		85kg Europe Tournament Reserve fight
Preliminary Card
65kg	Semir Delic	def.	Joao Francisco	Decision	4	3:00
70kg	Vinny Church	def.	Nerdin Fejzovic	Ext.R Decision	4	3:00
88kg	Bahrudin Mamic	def.	Alexander Gerekos	Decision	3	3:00

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K-1 World GP 2016 Euro -85kg Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Timur Aylyarov

KO

Vasil Ducar

Timur Aylyarov

DEC

Agron Preteni

3-0

Agron Preteni

DEC

Imanol Rodriguez

3-0

Timur Aylyarov

KO

Igor Emkić

3

Igor Emkić

DEC

Giuseppe De Domenico

3-0

Igor Emkić

DEC

David Radeff

3-0

David Radeff

DEC

Nikola Noveski

3-0

See also

• List of K-1 events
• List of K-1 champions
• 2016 in Glory
• 2016 in SUPERKOMBAT
• 2016 in Kunlun Fight