K1 GRAND PRIX

bella1

WOULD A K1 GRAND PRIX EVENT SELL OUT IN IRELAND SAY LIKE IN THE 02 AREANA.
I WAS TALKING TO THE HEAD OF THE K1 LAST WEEKEND AND THEY ARE PLANNING THE GRAND PRIX THEY ARE LOOKING FOR 5 VENUES AROUND EUROPE,COULD IRELAND BE ONE WOULD PEOPLE GO.

paddyc

Andy


I was talking to diddler last night bout this, it would be very hard to fill the O2 for a K1 event. Soem fo the top shows in the UK are finding it hard to get 1400 people to them and they are bringing over the best thais in the world to fight the top uk lads

If they managed to mesh K1 and MMA fights you would do better at filling it. but on K1 alone I think its gonna be hard. In saying that I would go just to see the big name in action


paddy

Killme00

I think they would get a big crowd but nothing like that required to sellout the O2. Obviously it would be hugely supported by the MA community (Thai, Kickboxing and MMA) but alot of marketing would be required to attract the average punters.

I expect they will get sellout crowds in Holland, France and possibly Italy due to Petrosyan but its hard to see it being sucessfull moneywise in Ireland.

Jason Mc

Yeah I think the big issue is the grand populace would not have heard of k1


Would there be irish fighters at a standard to get matched on this? (excuse my ignorance) Local fighters always helps to draw a crowd.

cowzerp

For thoes out there ignorant to what K1 is!

K1 is a striking competition with competitors from all styles of Martial arts such as Boxing, Muay Thai, Kyokushin Karate etc

It is like MMA without the ground work-very exciting and dynamic striking is used in K1..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-1_kickboxing

Killme00

Out of interest i checked the capacity of the O2. Apparently it is 20,000. Do we have any medium size venues in Ireland? Possibly the RDS but after that they are all small venues which would struggle to hold 1500 people safely.

The new conference centre looks very nice but even that has an 8000 capacity.

JohnMc1

I would love to see a K-1 event here, but they would have to be in a small venue to start off with.If the go to the O2 or something similar and ticket wise it doesn't do so well K-1 might not be so inclined to run another event here.

YamaMotoYama

xX Batman Xx wrote: »

Since when does K1 or Grand Prix have anything got to do with Martial Arts ? I think you are lost, Look for the motersport section of the forums.

bella1

they are looking for a venue with at least 4000/5000
there would be the grand prix then they would have 2 mma fights,2 k1 fights with local guys.
i meet with them again in dec so i can give them some feed back.
thanks guys

stevemc01

Killme00 wrote: »

Out of interest i checked the capacity of the O2. Apparently it is 20,000. Do we have any medium size venues in Ireland? Possibly the RDS but after that they are all small venues which would struggle to hold 1500 people safely.

The new conference centre looks very nice but even that has an 8000 capacity.

I think the capacity of the O2 in dublin is more like 10,000-12,000.

JohnMc1

bella1 wrote: »

they are looking for a venue with at least 4000/5000
there would be the grand prix then they would have 2 mma fights,2 k1 fights with local guys.
i meet with them again in dec so i can give them some feed back.
thanks guys

4000/5000 sounds about right. Good Luck bella1. I hope it works out. I think K-1 can be big here is promoted right.

xX Batman Xx

Chandler Panicky Bath wrote: »

Since your new here I'm going to be very lenient and not ban you.

But make no mistake that your cards are marked, over step the line again like this and you'll never post here again.

Ok, its was a joke , calm down... Sorry lads.... best of luck bella... :mad::D:D

siochain

Killme00 wrote: »

Out of interest i checked the capacity of the O2. Apparently it is 20,000. Do we have any medium size venues in Ireland? Possibly the RDS but after that they are all small venues which would struggle to hold 1500 people safely.

The new conference centre looks very nice but even that has an 8000 capacity.

yeah but by the time the set up for a ring the 20,000 is well reduced. I think it was around 12,000 for the UFC. Anyone know what the available seating was for the Dunne fight?

siochain

cowzerp wrote: »

For thoes out there ignorant to what K1 is!

K1 is a striking competition with competitors from all styles of Martial arts such as Boxing, Muay Thai, Kyokushin Karate etc

It is like MMA without the ground work-very exciting and dynamic striking is used in K1..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-1_kickboxing

with out doubt the best MA viewing apart from the times the throw in the likes of Bob Sap.

xX Batman Xx

siochain wrote: »

with out doubt the best MA viewing apart from the times the throw in the likes of Bob Sap.

True, Im a compleate noob, K1 looks really good. Looks like there is no USA Irish or British fighters ? Are the regions restricted ?

wudangclan

siochain wrote: »

with out doubt the best MA viewing apart from the times the throw in the likes of Bob Sap.

Agreed.
Best strikers in the world,imo.

OMCCABE

OMG the first few posts of this thread are priceless. Heroic fail.


As for the K1 event I would most definetly be there. Huge K1 fan.

Jason Mc

If you could get some sort of exposure on RTE that would help for sure