Kung Fu World Cup

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Kung Fu World Cup held in Changsha, China's Hunan
Source:Xinhua Published: 2017/1/25 10:00:21

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Miao Chenlei (L) of China fights with Haida Mustapha of Italy during the 75kg Savate of the Kung Fu World Cup in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Jan. 24, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Ga)

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Miao Chenlei (R) of China fights with Haida Mustapha of Italy during the 75kg Savate of the Kung Fu World Cup in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Jan. 24, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Ga)

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Wei Chengjin (R) of China fights with Nuzzi Francesco of Italy during the 61kg Kung Fu Combat of the Kung Fu World Cup in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Jan. 24, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Ga)

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Wei Chengjin (front) of China fights with Nuzzi Francesco of Italy during the 61kg Kung Fu Combat of the Kung Fu World Cup in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Jan. 24, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Ga)

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Ole Laursen (2nd-R) of Danmark celebrates after winning the 77kg KungFu Combat of the Kung Fu World against Kone Cheick of Cote d'Ivoire in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Jan. 24, 2017.(Xinhua/Li Ga)

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Aoriqileng (R) of China fights with Max Hunter Leali of USA during the 57kg KungFu Combat of the Kung Fu World Cup in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province. Jan. 24, 2017.(Xinhua/Li Ga)

Is this the same as The World Cup Sanshou tournament (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?52053-The-World-Cup-Sanshou-tournament)? I don't think so because of the Savate (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?8407-Savate).

[GeneChing]

Thanks to the interwebz, we can watch. I've transferred the hyperlinks because it's too much work to embed them.


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China is Holding the Kung Fu World Cup and You Can Watch it All For Free on YouTube (https://champions.co/p/mma-highlights-news-kung-fu-world-cup-kickboxing/4196152)
January 25, 2017 at 14:46PM
By Jason Nawara, writer at CREATORS.CO

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It's Wednesday evening, and there's some seriously awesome combat sports streaming live and free on YouTube. What a time to be alive. Thanks to Reddit's DanP (https://www.reddit.com/user/DaveAP) and Twitter's Jolassandra (see below), we're now privy to the Kung Fu World Cup, a mixed combat sports event including savate (French kickboxing), Kung Fu and MMA. Yes, below these words we have almost five hours of awesome action (with quite a bit of high production value) to absorb into our thirsty brains. Let's dive in.

The most interesting part is their hybrid MMA rules:

If the fight goes to the ground, you have a limited amount of time to submit your opponent, or the fight is stood back up by the ref.

Now some clips!

The first fight had a head kick knockout. Note the shoes and pants, which under this ruleset (savate/kung fu) are allowed:



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Kung Fu World Cup - nice head kick KO by Mohamed Diaby (France) (vs. Anatoly Moiseev (Russia))
4:28 AM - 24 Jan 2017
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The guy who got knocked out — Anatoly Moiseev — is a highly-ranked fighter for GLORY kickboxing.