K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final

K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final was a kickboxing event promoted by the K-1 promotion. It took place on March 15, 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia. It was the 19th annual K-1 World GP Final and the first K-1 event since the establishment of K-1 Global Holdings Ltd by EMCOM Entertainment.[1] For the first time in history it was held outside Japan.[2]

K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final
The poster for K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final.
Information
Promotion	K-1
Date	March 15, 2013
Venue	Arena Zagreb
City	Zagreb

Results

K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final results Reserve Fight: K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Dževad Poturak vs. Sergei Lascenko Poturak defeated Lascenko by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Quarter finals: K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Cătălin Moroşanu vs. Pavel Zhuravlev Zhuravlev defeated Moroşanu by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Mirko Cro Cop vs. Jarrell Miller Cro Cop defeated Miller by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Badr Hari vs. Zabit Samedov Hari defeated Samedov by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Ismael Londt vs. Hesdy Gerges Londt defeated Gerges by 3rd round TKO. Super Fight (1): K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Xie Chuang vs. Samo Petje Chuang defeated Petje by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Super Fight (2): K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Emil Zoraj vs. Edmond Paltatzis Zoraj defeated Paltatzis by 2nd round KO. Semi final (1): K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Pavel Zhuravlev vs. Mirko Cro Cop Cro Cop defeated Zhuravlev by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Super Fight (3): K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Toni Milanović vs. Jason Wilnis Wilnis defeated Milanović by 1st round TKO. Semi final (2): K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Dževad Poturak vs. Ismael Londt Londt defeated Poturak by 2nd round TKO. Super Fight (4): K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Agron Preteni vs. Andrei Stoica Preteni defeated Stoica by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Super Fight (5): K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Mladen Brestovac vs. Frank Muñoz Brestovac defeated Muñoz by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0. Final: K-1 rules / 3Min. 3R Ext. 1R Mirko Cro Cop def. Ismael Londt Cro Cop defeated Ismael by 3rd round unanimous decision 3-0.

• Xiangming Liu was replaced with Xie Chuang.
• Taishan was replaced with Frank Muñoz.
• Miran Fabjan was replaced with Giannis Sofokleus, then Sofokleus with Edmond Paltatzis.
• Makoto Uehara was replaced with Pavel Zhuravlev.
• Ben Edwards was replaced with Badr Hari.

K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Tournament bracket

First Round^1

Quarter Finals

Semi Finals

Final

Cătălin Moroşanu

DEC

Paul Slowinski

3-0

Cătălin Moroşanu

DEC

Makoto Uehara

DEC

Pavel Zhuravlev *

3-0

Hiromi Amada

3-0

Pavel Zhuravlev

3-0

Mirko Cro Cop

DEC

Mirko Cro Cop

DEC

Randy Blake

2-0

Mirko Cro Cop

DEC

Jarrell Miller

DEC

Jarrell Miller

3-0

Arnold Oborotov

3-0

Mirko Cro Cop

DEC

Ben Edwards

TKO

Ismael Londt

3-0

Raul Cătinaș

2nd

Badr Hari **

DEC

Zabit Samedov

TKO

Zabit Samedov

3-0

Xavier Vigney

1st

Dževad Poturak

TKO

Ismael Londt

DEC

Ismael Londt

2nd

Singh Jaideep

2-0

Ismael Londt

TKO

Hesdy Gerges

DEC

Hesdy Gerges

3rd

Sergei Lascenko

3-0

¹ featured in K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Tokyo Final 16.
* Makoto Uehara and Ben Edwards were unable to fight - their places in the Quarter Finals were taken by Pavel Zhuravlev and Badr Hari
** Badr Hari was unable to fight in the Semi Finals due to injury - his place was taken by Reserve Fight winner Dževad Poturak.

See also

• List of K-1 events
• List of K-1 champions

References

1. "K-1 WGP 2012 Finals in Zagreb on March 15". LiverKick. Retrieved 2013-01-24.
2. "U Bukureštu službeno potvrđeno: K-1 WGP Finale stiže u Zagreb!". fightsite.hr. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.