2009 February 27 Friday K1 Scandinavia “Rumble Qualification Tour” was taken in Norrköping Stadium Arena. The show went successive making more than the full house sold 3800 seats presenting 10 fights included 1 amateur boxing match in heavy weight, 3 mma matches and 5 kickboxing matches in K1 rule. Asgard presents a short report of the each fights.

1.MMA Opening match Carlos Prada(Sweden) vs Tobias Hellstrom(Sweden)
Exchanging a few times of the position on the mat 19 years old Carlos Prada has finished the opponent by the triangle choke in the 1RD.

2.Kickboxing David Teymur(Sweden) vs Krittisak Noiwibon(Sweden-Thailand)
A rugged but competitive match. Although a Thailand born fighter Krittisak Noiwibon from Lund returns attacks hard, David Teymur connected more of the effective strikes and won the game in the point in 3 RD.

3. Kickboxing Joakim Karlsson(Sweden) vs Christian Clingenberg(Sweden)
A sharp veteran fighter Joakim Karlsson kept the speedy agressive style connecting many accurate hits which has made a couple of downs, has defeated Christian Klingenberg after 3 RD in the exceeded points.

4. MMA Ilil Latifi(Sweden) vs Luis Silva(Portugal)
Powering down a Portugal fighter Luis Silva to the mat, Ilil Latifi starts to land the heavy shots. Winner Latifi in TKO referee stop in the 1 RD.

5.MMA Joakim Engberg(Sweden) vs Kevin Reed(UK)
Granted as one of the most integrated fighter in Scandinavia Joakim Engberg enters to the ring in the top shape. Joakim chases hard the English opponent Kevin Reed riding on the Reed’s back and finishes him in the R-N Choke. Winner Joakim Engberg in the 1RD

6. Kickboxing Jonathan Gromark(Sweden) vs Serginio Cairo(Holland)
Serginio Cairo from Holland connects the effective hits to Jonathan Gromark. Gromark fights back and started to deliver good kicks to Serginio. A even fight and Gromark won in point after the full time fight of 3RD.

7.Kickboxing Abbe Joof(Sweden) vs Oliver Kessler(Germany)
Abbe Joof attacks hard leading the game. Making Oliver Kessler 2 downs by the sharp knee hits the game continued to the 2nd RD. Joof goes on the agressive attacks making more downs to Kessler. Winner Abbe Joof in 2 RD TKO.

8.Kickboxing Marcus Oberg(Sweden) vs Dhzabar Askerov(UAE)
A skillfull fighter Oberg shows the exclusive techniques attacking one to another to the opponent Askerov. Askerov attacks back with powerful strikes doesn’t give up. Oberg’s hits are more accurate and effective. The stormy fight went to 4 RD and Marcus Oberg won the game in exceeded points.

9.Boxing Andreas Gustavsson(Sweden) vs Liviu Ungureanu(Romania)
A pro debute fight for Gustavsson starts in hard trading punch to punch and both tries to finish the opponent in the heavy strikes. In 3 RD keeping the good speed and aggression Gustavsson delivers hard heavy hits to the Romanian fighter’s face. But the damaged Romanian fighter refuses to go down to the mat. The local fans go excited and the temprature of the arena heated up high. The judge went to 3-0 to Gustavsson.

Engberg’s comment
I am glad the fight went fine. The difficult part of the game? The opponent Kevin Reed was damn strong. I make the top shape now fully motivated and ready to fight. The next fight is K1 Malmo in April. Please come and see my fight.

Asgard:A very well organized show. Paulo and Ian Roberto took the commentator and the big screen looked good in arena. Although the kickboxing matchmakings worked really fine and made many exciting games, mma cards seemed a littile bit lopp sided and turned the games a bit distracted. Specially Engberg and Latifi needed a stronger opponent to make the game more excited to show their spectacular fighting skills to the fans. Asgard wishes this sports to grow bigger and more fighters to fight in the world big stages. Especially Joakim Engberg is making the condition to the top and many mma fans expect him to fight in UFC.