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KOK to Expand Presence in the Balkans
King of Kings (KOK), one of the world’s biggest kickboxing organizations, is about to get even bigger. The company is already well known in Eastern Europe, regularly drawing crowds as big as 10,000 fans in their hot spots in the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia). In recent years KOK has also been expanding into Western Europe with events in Germany, England and Spain. However, a whole ...
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The Gold Standard in Event Production
You know you’re doing something right when the fighters and staff walk into the arena and let out a collective gasp. When I did commentary for FEA Kickboxing in Odessa, Ukraine on 24.08.2019, ...
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Manny Pacquiao: Boxing’s Iron Man Meets Next Challenge
The name Manny Pacquiao is synonymous with professional boxing. The 40 year old multi-divisional champion will go down as one of the greatest of all time. But the question on everyone’s mind, fight...
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Booking Pro Wrestling Should be a Dictatorship not a Democracy
This blog is not a political commentary, nor does it represent my political views in any way. It is merely an editorial about how professional wrestling should be executed from a creative standpoin...
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Forsberg vs. Aukstikalnis II - Rematch for the KOK Middleweight Title
This Friday May 17th King of Kings kickboxing comes to Helsinki, Finland for the first time. KOK will explode onto the Finnish fight scene with an incredible card featuring an -85 kg Middleweight T...
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2019 Natsu Basho Preview
The 2019 May sumo tournament or the Natsu basho, as it is called, is set to run from the 12th to the 26th of the month. With this basho, a new era will be ushered in, a visit from a famous American...
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Matei vs. Viksraitis for the KOK Lightweight Championship
The lightweight division in King of Kings has a long and storied history with an impressive list of competitors. In 2019 the division now stands as KOK’s most competitive. However, two fighters sta...
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How to Separate a Hero From a Monster
On a flight from Warsaw to New York City in the summer of 2007 I got some startling and unsettling news - my hero was a murderer. Growing up, I had two big heroes in the crazy world of sports e...
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KOK in 2019: Europe's King of Kickboxing
2018 was by far the most successful year for King of Kings. With sixteen events in ten different countries, the European promotion was one of the busiest in the fight business. However, as they say...
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Sumo in 2019: Scandal + Embarrassment = Success
For professional sumo, 2019 will be starting much the way 2018 did - on the heels of a scandal that just won’t seem to go away and with booming ticket sales despite the ignominy behind the scenes. ...
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