Remy Bonjasky vs. Paul Slowinski
September 30, 2008 by nopstar
Big thanks to Yassuo of K-1fans.com for the upload. I think this was one of the better fights of the evening.
It was interesting to see some of Ernesto’s facial expressions during the bout. He’s been coaching Slowinski now for a couple of years now, he didn’t look happy.
I think Slowinski threw half a dozen kicks the entire 3rd round, and maybe a a couple of knees throughout the entire bout.
I’m not sure what Remy’s deal is either. He’s appeared to have slowed down as well… Does anyone know anything about Bonjasky’s relationship with Ernesto Hoost? At the end of the fight, check out their interaction… Hoost and Bonjasky don’t even look each other in the eye. Bonjasky shakes his head and has an expression like he doesn’t think he won it? Ernesto touches his glove and walks past him? Clearly they don’t like each other much…
Anybody?
Hoost used to train at Vos and Ivan Hippolyte. Ivan is the current coach for Remy. Hence Remy and Hoost don’t care for one another much.
I think Hoost is an able coach and has made some noticeable adjustments to Slowinksy’s style for K-1.
I know Paul’s main coach in Alan Wong. Alan is more about authentic Muay Thai. Under Alan Paul got his rep for being basically an insanely hard low kicking monster.
Oh should add Hoost left Vos (his career length gym) under some controversy and bad feeling between he and Vos. Ivan was an old stable mate and early notable in Dutch (no elbow)Muay Thai.
Hard to believe now looking at pudgy ol’ Ivan these days but he was truly a top tier Muay Thai guy back in the 90s for Holland.
man they stole it form Slowinski just cause he Remy Bonjasky. crapy japanese judging
I don’t know, I think Bonjasky deserved that one. Slowinsky basically gassed in round 1, and for the rest of the bout was throwing slow, lazy punches. A lot of them, sure, but it seemed to me that Bonjasky was in control for most of the match.
That said, what’s up with Bonjasky? He plopped himself down in the third and just took it for a good minute! I realise Bonjasky’s style involves closing up and letting the opponent punch himself out, he did this with Bob Sapp to great effect. But you gotta have something to give back.
Also, on a side note, something that I’ve never liked about Bonjasky, isn’t it against the rules to use the ropes to assist your kicks? Bonjasky has done this since I first started watching him, but no one seems to mind. What’s up with that?
1) Remy has really, really slowed down. Maybe its the extra weight or maybe it’s just age and the beating the game dishes out. I think it probably has more to do with the weight. He looked better and moved better about 20-30 lbs ago when he was lean and lanky.
2) Much like Buakaw, Remy seems to have largely abandoned his low kicks. When he was first coming up (an early fight against McDonald comes to mind) he would key on the opponent’s leg and blast away. He was probably 70% kicks and knees, 30% punches. I’m all for rounding out your game, but I think they get obsessed with punch knockouts or just think the punch is more effective and they end up losing what made them so effective in the first place.
3) Remy did one thing well – stay in the shell and respond once Slowinsky gassed himself out. I don’t think Slowinsky deserved this one at all b/c it seemed to me that most of his punches landed on the outside of Remy’s guard. If he would’ve mixed more uppercuts in there he might’ve landed a big shot, but as it was he just pounded Remy’s arms most of the night. It sort of reminded me of Ali Foreman – the old rope-a-dope. It looks stupid and it makes for a boring fight, but if you do it right and stay tight in the shell, you can win.
On dailymotion:
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/remy%2Bslowinski/video/x6w52p_remy-bonjansky-vs-paul-slowinski-k1_sport
mannn… that last head kick in rnd 3 knocked the sweat of slowinski – just lovely!
It’s a pretty ugly fight. Slowinski was active but only connected a few times. Remy isn’t the fighter he used to be, plain and simple.