K-1 World Grand Prix Final 2008 to air live on HDNet featuring Kimbo Slice as guest commentator

Fighting and Entertainment Group (FEG) and HDNet are partnering once again to bring North American fans LIVE coverage of the K-1 World Grand Prix Final 2008 from the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan starting at 3:00am ET on Saturday, December 6.

Joining the broadcast team of Michael "The Voice" Schiavello, four-time K-1 WGP Champion Ernesto Hoost and FEG USA’s Mike Kogan will be none other than Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson.

Kimbo was invited by FEG and HDNet to be a guest commentator for K-1’s stateside debut.

FiELDS K-1 WGP 2008 Final, an 8-man knockout tournament for the coveted K-1 Grand Prix crown, features the world’s best heavyweight strikers including Moroccan/Dutch Bad Boy Badr Hari; legendary triple K-1 World Champion Peter Aerts; French monster Jerome LeBanner; Russian wonder Ruslan Karaev and two-time former champion Remy Bonjasky.

The broadcast also includes superfights featuring New Zealand’s "Sugar" Ray Sefo vs. seven-foot-plus giant Hong Man Choi and Australia’s Paul Slowinski vs. now un-retired Dutch demon Melvin Maenhoef.

Here is the official fight card for K-1 ‘World Grand Prix 2008 Final’:

Main Card:

K-1 World Grand Prix Final
Winner of Semifinal 1 vs. Winner of Semifinal 2

K-1 World Grand Prix Semifinals
Winner of Aerts/Hari vs. Teixeira/Zimmerman
Winner of Karaev/Saki vs. Le Banner/Bonjasky

K-1 World Grand Prix Quarterfinals
Peter Aerts (93-26-1) vs. Badr Hari (75-7-1)
Ewerton Teixeira (7-0) vs. Errol Zimmerman (74-7-1, 1 NC)
Ruslan Karaev (18-6) vs. Gokhan Saki (74-9, 1 NC)
Jerome Le Banner (91-15-1, 1 NC) vs. Remy Bonjasky (79-14)

Preliminary Card
Mitsugu Noda (6-2) vs. Tsutomu Takahagi (1-5)
Takeru (5-12) vs. Taisei Ko (1-0)

Reserve Fights
Paul Slowinski (87-13-1) vs. Melvin Manhoef (38-4)
Hong Man-Choi (17-5) vs. Ray Sefo (74-20-1)

For those of you who love K-1 but still need their beauty sleep, FEG is kind enough to offer an encore presentation later that evening starting at 9:00 p.m. ET.

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