Overview: The K-1 WORLD GP 2024 in TOKYO FINAL takes place on December 14, 2024, at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. This kickboxing event features an eight-man Openweight Grand Prix with fighters like Ariel Machado, Errol Zimmerman, Feng Rui, and Mattia Faraoni. Additional bouts include Hiromi Wajima vs. Stoyan Koprivlenski for the Super Welterweight title and Akihiro Kaneko vs. Aslanbek Zikreev in super bantamweight. Regional qualifiers from Sarajevo, Sicily, Brasília, and Osaka lead to this final showdown. It’s K-1’s climactic event of 2024, crowning the openweight king.
Overview: K-1 WORLD MAX 2025 takes place on February 8, 2025, at Yoyogi 2nd National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. This kickboxing event features Takumi Terada defending his Featherweight title against Takahito Niimi in the main event. Akihiro Kaneko faces Manolis Kallistis for the Super Bantamweight title, while a Women’s Atomweight Grand Prix includes fighters like Kira Matsutani and Miyuu Sugawara. Additional bouts showcase Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai vs. Hayato Suzuki and Shintaro Matsukura vs. Choong Il Park. It’s a landmark night for K-1 in 2025, kicking off the year with high-stakes action.
Overview: K-1 BEYOND took place on May 31, 2025, at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, Japan, promoted by K-1 Japan Group in collaboration with China’s Wu Lin Feng. The main event features an eight-man K-1 Super Featherweight (60kg) Championship Tournament, with confirmed fighters Tomoya Yokoyama, Leona Pettas, Yuta Matsuyama. Key title fights include Liu Ce defending his K-1 Cruiserweight title against Thian De Vries and Ouyang Feng defending his Super Welterweight title against Darryl Verdonk. The card also showcases a rematch for the Super Lightweight belt between Yodkhunpon and Shu Inagaki.
