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More K-1 World GP 2009 Final post-fight interviews on the official K-1 YouTube channel.

A few interesting post-fight notes regarding Dynamite!! 2009 via Nightmare of Battle.

FEG President Tanigawa declared today that he wants Alistair or Semmy to take Fedor out.

Candidates from the finals event for Dynamite!! are Alistair, Semmy (will fight under MMA rules if he fights, possibly against an SRC fighter), and Hari (depending on their condition). Alistair wants Hari in an MMA fight.

11 or 12 additional fights will be announced for Dynamite!! and Tanigawa wants 7 of those to be DREAM vs. SENGOKU/SRC fights. He also wants around 3 K-1 vs. DREAM/SENGOKU fights (like last years Mousasi/Musashi, Kawajiri/Kozo, and Alistair/Hari fights).

Announcements are expected later this week.

The K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final took place earlier this morning in Yokohama, Japan. It was an awesome night of fights loaded with highlight reel knockouts and brutal finishes. Even if you’re not a K-1 fan, these fights are must-see. It was as exciting, if not more, as any MMA event this year. Here’s the bout order for the playlist above.

1. Badr Hari vs. Ruslan Karaev
2. Alistair Overeem vs. Ewerton Teixeira
3. Remy Bonjasky vs. Errol Zimmerman
4. Semmy Schilt vs. Jerome Le Banner
5. Peter Aerts vs. Gokhan Saki
6. Daniel Ghita vs. Sergei Kharitonov
7. 1st Semi-Final
8. 2nd Semi-Final
9. GP Final

Results after the jump.

Alistair Overeem vs Peter Aerts

If you’re not familiar with K-1’s resident badboy/badass Badr Hari, you should be (check out the spinning back kick KO at the 1:20 mark) and tonight’s your perfect chance. HDNet will be airing a 90-minute special chronicling Hari’s career tonight at 10PM ET.

Over in Amsterdam, Badr Hari and Semmy Schilt fought in a kickboxing match this weekend in an event called It’s Showtime. Quite the impressive victory for Hari, who basically annihilated Schilt in 45 seconds. MMA Fanhouse has the full results.

HT: MMAZone.nl

Melvin Manhoef was also in action. Video of his fight against Stefan Leko after the jump.

Fields Dynamite!! 2008 took place earlier today at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Japanese MMA legends Kazushi Sakuraba and Kiyoshi Tamura finally squared off in the night’s main event.

In what should have the been the DREAM LW GP Final match-up, Eddie Alvarez and Shinya Aoki met for the WAMMA Lightweight Championship.

Melvin Manhoef stepped in on a day’s notice for Jerome LeBanner to fight the much bigger K-1 vet Mark Hunt in a DREAM rules match.

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, in the night’s David and Goliath bout, fought the Korean giant, Hong Man Choi.

Alistair Overeem took a tough fight under K-1 rules against K-1 Heavyweight king and resident bad boy Badr Hari.

Japanese freak show staple Bob Sapp participated in the mother of all freak shows when he fought an amateur wrestling champion dressed up as a Japanese anime character.

Gegard Mousasi, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Hayato “Mach” Sakurai, Semmy Schilt, Mighty Mo and Minnowaman were also in action.

The fight between Joachim Hansen and JZ Calvacante was canceled due an apparent head injury to Hansen. MMA Weekly has a report.

Results and thoughts after the jump.

Just a week out from Japan’s big NYE event, Fields Dynamite!! 2008, it looks like Alistair Overeem finally has an opponent. He will be fighting none other than K-1 heavyweight king Badr Hari under K-1 rules. Very tough fight for Overeem, I know, however, in the interest of fairness, the two have also agreed to meet again in early 2009 in a MMA rules match.

It appears the rumors were true. Cro Cop announced earlier today on his official blog that he has signed a contract to fight Korean giant Hong Man Choi at Fields Dynamite!! 2008 on NYE.

We’re only a few weeks away from FEG’s Dynamite!! 2008 card, yet in typical Japan fashion, we only know a few of the match-ups. Ever since DREAM.6 concluded, it was widely speculated and almost expected that Cro Cop and Alistair Overeem would meet again to finally settle their score. Much like the first go-around, words were exchanged in the media, but for whatever reason the rematch was not booked. Instead, it’s been said that they would both fight on the card, however, against different opponents. Well, now it looks like they have more than just their pride to fight for, they also have their NYE opponent to fight over. Apparently, FEG is interested in booking Cro Cop against K-1 bad boy Badr Hari, but the funny part is Overeem is the one who wants a crack at Hari.

This should be worth a good laugh with another long work week staring you in the face.

Kimbo is clear what he thinks Hari’s punishment should be:

“I want to fight him and teach him what sportsmanship is about….I want to give him a spanking.” As he called it, a “Spanking Match”

In case you didn’t know, Badr Hari was disqualified in the K-1 World GP Finals this past weekend for illegally stomping Remy Bonjasky in the face. Illegal strikes or not, poor Kimbo is going to get murdered if he fights Hari. I really can’t believe this is even being discussed.

Quick update: MMA Mania found this video of Kimbo commentating at the K-1 event. Watch it to the end. Yes, I know the dude in the beginning makes a really strong case to immediately turn it off, but waiting till Kimbo comes on is very well worth it.