K1 USA Tournament Results

"Enter the Beast"

Courtesy K1 North America

Fight 1 - Tournament Bracket A

Carter Williams wins a three round split decision (29-29.5, 29.5-28.5, 29.5-29) over 2002 K1 Champion

Michael McDonald  

Fight 2 - Tournament Bracket A

Yusuke Fujimoto wins a three round majority decision (28-28, 29-28.5, 29-28.5) over Dewey Cooper 

Fight 3 - Tournament Bracket B

2002 K1 runner-up Rick Roufus wins by TKO (two knock down rule) in 2:54 of round one over Eduardo

Maiorino De Morais 

Fight 4 - Tournament Bracket B

Past UFC Champ Maurice Smith wins a three round unanimous decision (30-27.5, 30-28, 29.5-28.5) over

Giuseppe DeNatale

Fight 5 - Super Fight 

Cung Lee wins by TKO (Ref Stoppage) in 1:13 of round two over Scott Sheeley

Fight 6 - Tournament Semi-Final Bracket A

Carter Williams wins by TKO (two knock down rule) in 2:26 of round two over Yusuke Fujimoto 

Fight 7 - Tournament Semi-Final Bracket B

Rick Roufus wins a three round unanimous decision (30-26.5, 30-26.5, 29.5-27.5) over Maurice Smith

The first round was uneventful with Roufus landing more punches. Smith was knocked down in the second

with an overhead left but came back and finished the round. The third round saw Smith get more busy but

not really connecting. 

Fight 8 - Super Fight 

Stefan Leko wins by second round TKO over Great Kusatsu  

Fight 9  - SuperFight

2000 K1 Champ Mark Hunt wins a five round unanimous decision (50-45.5, 49-45.5, 49.5-46) over UFC and

Pride veteran "Big Daddy" Gary Goodridge

Fight 10 - Tournament Final

Carter Williams wins by KO in 2:20 of round one over Rick Roufus

Williams put Roufus down at the beginning of the round with a combination (the two knock down rule is not

in effect). Roufus got back up when he should have stayed down. He got knocked out later in the round  by

what looked like a right cross.

Fight 11 - Super Fight 

Musashi  wins by three round decision over his former teacher Nobuaki Kakuda  

(5/2/03)