World Max Japan Tournament Results
February 24, 2004
Yoyogi Stadium
Tokyo, Japan

All bouts three rounds (three minutes each round)

Fight 1 - Reserve Bout
Tomo wins by knockout (left hook) at 2:39 of the third round over Toshio Matsumoto

Fight 2 - Bracket A
Takayuki Kohiruimaki wins a three round unanimous decision (30-28, 30-29, 30-29) over Hayato

Fight 3 - Bracket A
Kozo Takeda wins by first round TKO (towel) over Kenichi Ogata

Fight 4 - Bracket B
Serkan Yilmaz wins by knockout at 1:30 of the second round over Kazuya Yasuhiro

Fight 5 - Bracket B
Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto wins by knockout at 2:38 of the second round over Takehiro Murahama

Fight 6 - Super Fight
Albert Kraus wins by knockout at 2:31 of the first round over Takashi Ohno

Fight 7 - Bracket A Semi-Finals
Takayuki Kohiruimaki wins by knockout at 1:05 of the second round over Kozo Takeda

Fight 8 - Bracket B Semi-Finals
Serkan Yilmaz wins by knockout at 2:13 of the first round over Tomo - Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto suffered an injury and could not continue

Fight 9 - Super Fight
Fuji Chalmsak wins by knockout at 2:27 of the first round over Arslan Magomedov

Fight 10 - Tournament Final
Takayuki Kohiruimaki wins a three round unanimous decision (30-28, 30-28, 30-28) over Serkan Yilmaz

- Kohiruimaki wins tournament

Looks like Kohiruimaki is proving me wrong and looknig more and more like a threat.

Also, I'm amazed that not only did Kid win, he did so decisively and absolutely destroyed Murahama. Takehiro may have been out of shape, but that's a quite a feather in Yamamoto's cap. So now, he's an Olympic calibre wrestler with Fedor-esque G&P and legit KO power standing. Shooto champion, anyone?

Too bad he set himself back against with another broken hand injury... if he ain't careful, that's going to be a bane for him.