Black Adder
18-02-2012, 11:49
Interview below by Rey Miles from FightGame.NET, Only A Fighter Knows the Feeling! (http://www.fightgame.net)
Bas, could you tell us what’s going on with K-1, your investors, Isshi and Emcom etc?
Well, I guess its time for the truth.
FEG has been playing games for a long time but the fighting scene in Japan is suffering, as you know the NYE show in Japan is their biggest show, but even with Fedor vs Japanese rising star and Olympian Isshi plus Peter Aerts and Le Banner, they did not get a TV deal with TBS.
The industry is suffering from all the scandals and it will only get worse. A few years ago I gave a few VIP tickets to a couple important people to join a K-1 event. They wanted to buy the struggling K-1 company, but FEG was too far in debt and many shady people were involved.
Those investors spent a lot of money in due diligence but they decided not to buy K-1 because of FEG.
Mr. Kim from Emcom came to Holland several months ago with Mr. Tanigaw and visited Simon and some other fighters, lots of promises were made and everybody was going to get half of their money and had to reduce their fighting fee so Mr. Kim from Emcom guaranteed everything would be paid. To Note: (“The best quote of the interview fightopinion/gendai magazine was when Eddie asked Tadashi about who exactly UFC paid to buy the PRIDE assets. (Sakakibara? The dreaded Mr. I aka Ishizaka aka Kim Dok-Soo?) The Yakuza behind Pride was a person named Ishizaka a Korean his sir name Kim.”)
Blog : Interview with Bas Boon from Golden Glory what is really happening with K-1 and new “owner” Mr. Kim from EMCOM. : FightGame.NET, Only A Fighter Knows the Feeling! (http://fightgametv.com/blog/?p=476)
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Bas, could you tell us what’s going on with K-1, your investors, Isshi and Emcom etc?
Well, I guess its time for the truth.
FEG has been playing games for a long time but the fighting scene in Japan is suffering, as you know the NYE show in Japan is their biggest show, but even with Fedor vs Japanese rising star and Olympian Isshi plus Peter Aerts and Le Banner, they did not get a TV deal with TBS.
The industry is suffering from all the scandals and it will only get worse. A few years ago I gave a few VIP tickets to a couple important people to join a K-1 event. They wanted to buy the struggling K-1 company, but FEG was too far in debt and many shady people were involved.
Those investors spent a lot of money in due diligence but they decided not to buy K-1 because of FEG.
Mr. Kim from Emcom came to Holland several months ago with Mr. Tanigaw and visited Simon and some other fighters, lots of promises were made and everybody was going to get half of their money and had to reduce their fighting fee so Mr. Kim from Emcom guaranteed everything would be paid. To Note: (“The best quote of the interview fightopinion/gendai magazine was when Eddie asked Tadashi about who exactly UFC paid to buy the PRIDE assets. (Sakakibara? The dreaded Mr. I aka Ishizaka aka Kim Dok-Soo?) The Yakuza behind Pride was a person named Ishizaka a Korean his sir name Kim.”)
Blog : Interview with Bas Boon from Golden Glory what is really happening with K-1 and new “owner” Mr. Kim from EMCOM. : FightGame.NET, Only A Fighter Knows the Feeling! (http://fightgametv.com/blog/?p=476)
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