K-1 Japan Announces Tournament For 60KG Title

Following an announcement earlier this week that K-1 Japan had parted ways with the TRY HARD Gym, which in effect cancelled their K’Fiesta.1 main event, K-1 Japan announced a massive change to the March event.

According to a report from Liverkick, the roster is in the midst of a change due to exclusivity of their contracts, and potential competition from RIZIN and the growth of the competing KNOCK OUT Promotion.

And now with the Tiaga vs. Takeru main event for the vacant Super Featherweight Championship cancelled, K-1 has announced a tournament for the vacant title and superfights for March’s event.

Fightcard
60kg Championship Tournament – QuarterFinals
– Goshyu Masanobu vs. Timur Nadrov
– TAKERU vs. Stauros Exakoustidis
– Komiyama Kosuke vs. Suarek Rukkukamui
– KOJI vs. Urabe Hirotaka

Superfight
Kido Yasuhiro vs. Issam Chahid

Superfight
Kimura Minoru vs. Hirayama Jin

62.5kg – Lightweight Championship
Wei Rui (c) vs. Urabe Koya

65kg – Super Lightweight Championship
Noiri Masaaki (c) vs. Tetsuya Yamato

67.5kg – Welterweight Championship
Kubo Yuta (c) vs. Melsik Baghdasarya

70kg – Super Welterweight Champion
Chingiz Allazov (c) vs. Hinata

55kg – Super Bantamweight Championship
Takei Yoshiki (c) vs. Kubo Kenji

95kg – Heavyweight Championship
Antonio Plazibat (c) vs. Roel Mannaart

65kg – Title Challenger Elimination
Kaew Weerasakreck vs. Hiramoto Ren

65kg SuperFight
Nakazawa Jun vs. Soda Yasuomi II

55kg SuperFight
Gunji Taito vs. Tosaka Takumi

50kg Women’s SuperFight
KANA vs. Polina Petukhova

Preliminary Fights
Yokoyama Takumi vs. Oiwa Tatsuya
Toushi vs. Hayato
Hara Shouta vs. Kondo Kaisei
Ruku vs. Kato Kona
Sano Junpei vs. Matsumura Hideaki

Original Story: LIVERKICK.