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koon_taung_daeng · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Location: south korea

i keep on seeing these re runs of this 8foot 9 korean k1 fighter. who is this man? and has he ever fought anyone good, all i know is he beat down my hawaiian home town sumo hero AKI BONO

Alyallen · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

His name is Choi Hong-man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Hong-man

Here's his profile in K-1
[url]
http://k-1sport.de/en/database/show_fighter.php?id=235[/url]

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

Len8 · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Location: Kyungju

He got his but whipped by an American (Samoan) recently. Knocked out in fact. He needed that I'd say to wake him up to fighting real time. I think he is quite capable of putting up a decent fight, but he has succumbed to lack of go getemness. Lethargy or something.

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

Ah, that dude . . .

Yeah, my students always brag about how great of a fighter he is, but I think he's downright sloppy. But then again, he's 7'2" or something ridiculous like that, so he's far from graceful.

I prefer that big Russian dude. For being so big, he sure pulls off some impressive roundhouse kicks.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

He has that genetic disease where you keep growing your whole life. Forgot/don't really care what it's called.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

A little bird told me that he's hung like a whale.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

We used to work out at the same gym and he's freaking huge!!!! You can't get the scale unti you see him in person. His legs are honestly nearly 5 feet long. But yeah he's slow and clumsy in hte ring. I think he's only able to compete b/c the other guys have to punch straight up to reach him. I can't ebelive anyone was able to knock him out!

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

I saw a few of his fights, and for a big guy he moves very well. He doesnt kick much but uses his knees with considerable skill.

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rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

koon_taung_daeng · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Location: south korea

yea hawaii is nice but like all places it gets old, the car scene their is pretty heavy every asian american in hawaii sells all of their belongings to pimp put their ride and then gets their licence taken away for driving to fast, cant really out run the cops on an island

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

Choi Hong Man is 100% size and 0% skill. I was not surprised when he got kocked out. It was bound to happen.

When a guy comes to the ring singing and dancing, I just know he hasn't trained enough and has been goofing around too much.

The Korean media could do him a favour and leave him alone. Don't offer him TV commercials and appearances on TV shows, b/c he'll just say yes. He needs to train more if he'll ever win.

rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

Len8 · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Location: Kyungju

He got knocked out by "Mighty Mo". It was a round house punch, but it really connected. Sent him straight to the canvas.

The Korean newspapers had a field day with it. I was able to pick out stuff like " -- man or whatever his name is has got a big headache" next to pictures of him slumped on the canvas.

He apparently suffered from "giantism" . I think that's what the disease is known as. Continued growth past the time when you should have stopped. The life span for people with his abnormality isn't very long.

The famous "Elephant man" suffered from a form of the same disease.

Akebono the sumo wrestler turned K1 fighter is big ball of blubber. Kind of embarrasing to see him dumped or knocked out everytime he steps into the ring.

xingyiman · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

My Takgeyon teacher says that he's originally a Shirum wrestler, which would account for the fact that heseems to have great balance but no punching and kicking skill.