For a die-hard fan sitting in America somewhere that's easy to say. I was talking about the live house, who were in Hoost's hometown, probably a lot of fans were there to see his revenge match with Bob Sapp. Bob Sapp is an international attraction, Hoost is a hometown hero, and they've got a great history and Hoost finally could have beat him and retired on that note. OK if you're a die-hard K-1 fan you get Aerts and Hoost instead, super cool right? Wrong. I don't care how much better that fight appears to be on paper to a kickboxing/K-1 fan, the guy was wearing a headset and calling action for television, and he puts on Semmy Schilt's shorts and on an hour's notice or some shit fights arguably the best K-1 fighter of all time. That's not "better if you know K-1". That's K-1 coming through with a kick-ass "plan B" with very little time to come up with one, however the original match was the one promoted as the main-event and probably laid claim to a large portion of the audience who was in attendance, and they got screwed out of seeing what they paid to see.
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