K1 fighters who appeared in MMA

[theargosy]

Everybody knows about CroCop, but who were the most obscure kickboxers to make the transition?

 

[Project 2501]

Alexey Ignashov
Branko Cikatic
Jerome Lebanner
Jan Nortje
Badr Hari

 

[fingercuffs]

Overeem?

 

[theargosy]

Overeem?

He's pretty famous. But somehow this is a good example.

 

[jefferz]

Cung Le

 

[BisexualMMA]

Mighty Mo
Peter Aerts
Hong Man Choi

 

[theargosy]

Mighty Mo
Peter Aerts

When did Aerts fight MMA??? I want links! I gotta see this!

 

[phoenixikki]

Semmy Schilt

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

We talk cats here not karate

 

[Smokes]

 

[Iroh]

Peter Aerts is 1-2
Tyrone Spong is 2-0
Rico Verhoeven is 1-0

 

[revoltub]

Overeem?

He was mma first I think. Pretty sure he even made fun of k-1 guys about how easily he won

 

[Iroh]

He was mma first I think. Pretty sure he even made fun of k-1 guys about how easily he won

He had kickboxing matches first when he was 17, but not in K-1 so technically doesn't count.

 

[websurfer]

Gohkan Saki

 

[El_Dyablo619]

Peter Alerts
Ray Sefo
Gökhan Saki
Melvin Manhoef
Micheal Mcdonald
Igor Vovchanchin

 

[Iroh]

Oh man, when I first got ibto MMA I would look up kickboxers in MMA all the time, because I transitioned from watching kickboxing to MMA, and these were the guys I already knew.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Not K1 though he did fight a couple times for them, but Malaipet Sasiprapa is one of the best pure muay Thai guys that crossed to kickboxing and MMA

 

[mb23100]

Peter Aerts is 1-2
Tyrone Spong is 2-0
Rico Verhoeven is 1-0

Whatever happened to Spong?

 

[TheNinja]

Whatever happened to Spong?

He's acting as a bouncer for local saunas.

 

[king of theRing]

You mean k1 rules fights or strictly FEG k1?

Schilt
Badr
Saki
Hesdy
Manhoef
Spong
Aerts
McSweeney
Sefo
Hunt
Crocop
Mighty mo
Lebanner
Doug viney

That's just FEG K1. And I'm sure there is a few I missed. Now k1 rules.... that's just too many to really name