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Julius_Caesar
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The division was competitive for everyone apart from buakaw and petrosyan. Petrosyan was schooling almost everyone.Don't really want to get wrapped up in this debate but their is no doubt that the fights in K-1 MAX were consistently competitive technical wars and every event delivered. I'm just not seeing that these days. The division was way more competitive and I won't listen to anyone arguing otherwise.
You can argue the fights were competitive because you had one promotion where all the best were fighting in. Today there are so many promotions and everyone is spread out but a division with Chingiz, Superbon, Marat, Yodsanklai, present petro, Kehl, Cedric Manhoef, Tuinov, RvR, Yodwicha would equally be as competitive and even arguably more.
I think Buakaw in a way is overrated for thai standards. He is where he is due to opportunity. Not due to being the best. Many good thais with the right style could accomplish what he accomplished if they were given the same opportunity. What's stopping us from assuming Marat would do to prime buakaw what he did to Jomthong, superbon and maybe even sittichai when they fight again? If Marat can hit you there's a big chance that he will hurt you and buakaw got hit a lot more than sittichai. Styles make fights.