Final Male Kumite -75Kg (Moscow 2019)

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[ronaldowilliams]

There are too many Boxing and UFC fanboys expecting of karate violence and inexistent respect for the opponent.

[LrCloud]

I REALLY like the demonstration of obvious respect they have for each other.

[P.h.i.l.]

Rafael is soooo fast and technicals fantastic!He is my Karate Hero👏👏👏👊🥋🥊

[IrvingDaniel]

Man, I'm glad I train in a Kyokushin Karate dojo. Fighting for points is no fight at all. We train to gain strenght and endurance, give pain and take pain until one or the other is knocked out.

I think some of the lower belts at Kyokushin would mop the floor with these guys.

[siyesheng]

I do karate and the wkf tournament style competitions are pretty bad. I dont consider these things fights. More like a game of tag.

[johnmichaelcanares]

I know this is point fighting but there are things here you can see and can learn if you actually do full contact combat sports. 1 Occupying the guard, and 2 If you miss, you control (that's high level defensively responsible). These 2 are very useful in full contact fighting but rarely used by a lot of fighters except maybe for high level fighters. I can see very clearly that these 2 are doing both of these. Aside from these 2 techniques I can also see other skills used by high level fighters in both boxing and MMA that I can point out in this fight.

If you don't see the practical techniques used here, then you have not fought in the ring before. I'm not karate but I do boxing and have competed before.

[marcelocastro]

For all keyboard warriors: get in the mats with Aghayev, i dare you

[lanysmith]

This is defiantly not what I expect from a kumite

[Darkermatters]

So much negativity in the comments lol. It's a sport, not real fighting, stop complaining.

[akbarbaharuddin]

Aghayev have deserved to join MMA/UFC. InsyaAllah

[juanmanuellaserna]

This what I don't understand about kumite, sometimes they don't give you points when score them, also the fights are basically two guys jumping waiting for the other to do something to do a counter, that's why fights are boring.

[pauldavies]

This is sports Karate. Not REAL KARATE for STREET DEFENCE

[mcquax]

Disrespectful how ao doesn’t bow at the start

[kadrunkomunis]

I didn't know if Liam Gallagher knows karate

[TerrorBlade-zxxk]

Sport karate just makes true karate look bad, back then karateka from japan knock each other out there's no cringe shouting and no holding they fought like a man

[Godinferno.]

watch in 2x, and you get cartoonish fight

[Владимир-лцз]

Подсечка?Удар в бедро, голень?
-Не, не слышал 😊

[abdullahmufti]

How is this fighting? Let alone considered a sport. All they do is punch and they hesitate to attack. This is an insult to true karate
Edit: Alot of people replying in the comments saying this is kumite sparring hence the fighting style. My point is, that when karate was founded it was much more aggressive and sparring was full contact, not this jumping contest that they call karate. Sadly dojos have watered down karate for profit and kumite was only made for the sole purpose of making karate an Olympic sport. Lastly, this style of fighting would get you slept in a street fight or in a situation where you need to defend yourself.

[SoloEcho]

This is not kumite, this is scurry and flinch.

[aironur]

Jetzt weiß ich warum Volker Pispers kein Kabarett mehr macht. Er macht jetzt Kumite. :)