fighting black kings

[megamania500]

Anyone ever seen the documentary with this title? I've seen it on starz a couple times so far and its pretty interesting. It covers an international black belt tournament in Japan where nations top black belts compete in full contact tournament, elimination type tournament. It had a team of kung-fu fighters from China and a team of muay thai fighters from Thialand, including the then world champ im muay-thai. The documentery takes place in 1978 or so. Oh, wait. It was in 1976. And if you have dish or digital cable, next time it is on is 4:05pm on friday Oct 14 on Encore Action channel.
I was going to go into details but since some of you may watch it I won't give anything away, as far as winners and stuff.

 

[Kane Fan]

I have seen most of it never all the way through
I wish it flowed a little better
if you know what I mean from the breaks and things
but I enjoyed watching it
it actually got me interested in Kyo
I was already intersted in MT

 

[Djimbe]

Hey , thats today ! Im gonna Tivo that Bitch !

 

[Big Rick Rock]

Anyone ever seen the documentary with this title? I've seen it on starz a couple times so far and its pretty interesting. It covers an international black belt tournament in Japan where nations top black belts compete in full contact tournament, elimination type tournament. It had a team of kung-fu fighters from China and a team of muay thai fighters from Thialand, including the then world champ im muay-thai. The documentery takes place in 1978 or so. Oh, wait. It was in 1976. And if you have dish or digital cable, next time it is on is 4:05pm on friday Oct 14 on Encore Action channel.
I was going to go into details but since some of you may watch it I won't give anything away, as far as winners and stuff.

I'm never going to see it on that chanel.


Can you tell us what happened?






-BRR

 

[Kane Fan]

bunch of guys hit each other
I saw a pretty awsome looking kick
it was one of those that you'd never expect to land but it did

 

[Kane Fan]

to further illistrate
it was a spinning kick delivered at clinch range

 

[heavy_duty]

it's an awesome documentary. I have the VHS tape.
some of those bro's still teach karate.

 

[Spanky11]

it's an awesome documentary. I have the VHS tape.
some of those bro's still teach kyokushin.

Actually it was a great documentary and a great way to promote Kyokushin in the mid - 70's.

Actually none of those guys teach Kyokushin and haven't done so since 1982, when William Olivier (the little black guy with the great kicks (he actually passed away 2 years ago)) followed his instructor Tadashi Nakamura when he left Kyokushin and started Seido Karate. The monsterous big guy - Willie Williams also left around then after his instructor started USA Oyama Karate.

The fighting in tournaments has changed alot since then, but it is a great way to watch how certain countries used to dominate those early tournaments.

Of course, the Japanese had those tournaments rigged so badly that it was a shame...