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K-1 Premium Dynamite!! is an annual kickboxing and MMA event held every year since 2002, by K-1. It was originally a co-production between PRIDE Fighting Championships and K-1 that was held on August 28, 2002. The event was known as K-1 Dynamite! under the K-1 banner and, PRIDE Shockwave under the PRIDE Fighting Championships' banner, in Japan both organizations carried out the event under the name of Dynamite!. The live audience record for the event was over 70,000 people, and till this day is the highest live audience record for both organizations and for any professional fight event.

Both organizations then later individually kept holding the event every year on new year's eve. As new years eve in Japan is a huge night for television as most families are home celebrating together and watching TV. Since then, every year on new year's eve PRIDE Otoko Matsuri (known as Shockwave in the States), K-1 Premium Dynamite!! along with Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye would air in a rating's war that for a while was dominated by K-1, but as of 2005 PRIDE has become the more popular sport and won the rating war for the first year.

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[edit] Dynamite!

Dynamite! (also referred to as PRIDE/K-1 Dynamite!) was held August 28, 2002 at the Tokyo National Stadium.

[edit] Results

[edit] MMA Rules Matches

Wanderlei Silva defeats Tatsuya Iwasaki by technical knockout at 1:16 of Round 1.

Jerrel Venetiaan defeats Daijiro Matsui by split decision.

Gary Goodridge defeats Lloyd Van Dams by technical knockout at 3:39 of Round 1.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira defeats Bob Sapp by armbar submission at 4:03 of Round 2.

Hidehiko Yoshida defeats Royce Gracie (R1 7:24) by referee stoppage with an Ezekiel Choke/Sode Guruma Jime (scissor sleeve choke) and smother from half guard. This match was filled with controversary as Gracie claims he was neither unconscious nor verbally gave up but Yoshida claims Gracie was unconscious.

"Cro Cop" defeats Kazushi Sakuraba by technical knockout at 5:00 of Round 2 after Sakuraba suffers an eye injury.

[edit] K-1 Rules Matches

Semmy Schilt vs. Ernesto Hoost went to a decision draw (R5).

Jérôme Le Banner defeats Don Frye (R1 1:30) by KO.

[edit] K-1 Premium 2003 Dynamite!!

[edit] Results

[edit] K-1 Rules Matches

Bob Sapp def. Akebono by KO (right hook) in 2:58 of 1R

During the fight Hoost had a tough time trying to break through Silva's long reach but by the second round he was getting through and tagging Silva with heavy rights causing the big Brazilian to constantly tie up with Hoost (leading to several yellow cards and a red card). In the end Hoost walked away with the decision victory.

[edit] MMA Rules Matches

[edit] K-1 Premium 2004 Dynamite!!

[edit] Results

[edit] K-1 Rules Matches

  • Special Rules: Jérôme Le Banner vs Bob Sapp - The special rules was that For one round it would be regular K-1 rules, and in the next round it would be MMA rules. They would switch back and forth for 4 rounds.

[edit] MMA Rules Matches

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