Company type | Private |
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Industry | Martial arts entertainment planning and promotion |
Founded | 2016 |
Founders | Riki Onodera, Bushido Road |
Headquarters | , Japan |
Key people | Mitsuru Miyata |
Owner | Def Fellow |
Website | Knockout Kickboxing |
Knock Out (stylized as KNOCK OUT) is a Japanese martial arts promotion and brand established in 2016 by the Bushido Road subsidiary Kixroad. It is currently run by Def Fellow.
In 2019, the promotion established two different rulesets. The Knock Out-Red ruleset allowed elbow strikes, sweeps and throws. The Knock Out-Black ruleset followed the traditional K-1 ruleset, which allowed kicks and strikes with fists or knees, while extended clinching, elbow strikes and throws of any kind were prohibited. [1]
Division | Red Champion | Black Champion |
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Super Middleweight (-75 kg) | Vacant | Vacant |
Super Welterweight (-70 kg) | Kuntap Charoenchai | Kaito Ono |
Welterweight (-67.5 kg) | Vacant | Ryotaro |
Super Lightweight (-65 kg) | Bazooka Koki | Chihiro Suzuki |
Lightweight (-62.5 kg) | Yota Shigemori | Taimu Hisai |
Super Featherweight (-60 kg) | Vacant | Vacant |
Featherweight (-57.5 kg) | Eisaku Ogasawara | Ryusei |
Super Bantamweight (-55 kg) | Hikaru Furumura | Seiya Furuki |
Bantamweight (-53.5 kg) | Riku Otsu | Vacant |
Super Flyweight (-52 kg) | Vacant | Vacant |
Female Minimumweight (-47.5 kg) | Vacant | Vacant |
Female Atomweight (-46 kg) | Vacant | Vacant |
On September 14, 2016, Bushido Road announced the establishment of a new kickboxing promotion called Knock Out. The promotion was founded jointly by Riki Onodera and Road Fight, and initially partnered with another kickboxing promotion "NO KICK NO LIFE". [2]
KNOCK OUT held their first event, called "Knock Out vol.0", at the Tokyo Dome City Hall on December 5, 2016. It was headlined by a muay thai bout between Sirimongkol PKsaenchaimuaythaigym and the Rajadamnern 135 lbs champion Genji Umeno. Tenshin Nasukawa faced the two-weight Lumpinee champion Wanchalong PK.Saenchai in the co-headliner. [3] A half hour segment of the event was later broadcast by Tokyo MX on December 31, 2016. [4] The event was fully broadcast on January 1, 2017. [5]
Riki Onodera retired from the position of producer on April 29, 2019. [6] On May 20, 2019, it was announced that he would be replaced by Genki Yamaguchi. On the same day, Knock Out announced that they had entered into a partnership agreement with Rebels, another kickboxing and muay thai promotion. [7]
On June 15, 2020, Bushido Road sold Knock Out ownership rights to Def Fellow, the operating company of Rebels. [8]
At a press conference held on September 28, 2020, producer Genki Yamaguchi announced his retirement. Former K-1 producer and Good Loser president Mitsuru Miyata was announced as his replacement. [9]
On December 18, 2020, Def Fellow announced they would merge Rebels into the Knock Out brand. The merger occurred in March 2021. [10]
The current rules were last revised in February 2023, and are as follows: [11] [12]
Weight limit: 65 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Fukashi (def. Hideki) | August 19, 2018 | |
Weight limit: 61.5 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Yosuke Morii (def. Katsuji) | December 10, 2017 | |
2 | Yodlekpet Or. Pitisak (def. Yosuke Morii) | August 14, 2018 |
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Weight limit: 55 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Rui Ebata (def. Eisaku Ogasawara) | September 18, 2019 | |
Weight limit: 51 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Issei Ishii (def. Kazuki Osaki) | December 9, 2018 | |
Weight limit: 70 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Eiji Yoshida (def. Yoshiro Tsuzaki) | October 16, 2019 | |
2 | Kuntap Charoenchai (def. Yoshiro Tsuzaki) | December 11, 2022 | |
Weight limit: 65 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Bazooka Koki (def. Ryotaro) | September 16, 2023 | |
Weight limit: 62.5 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Suarek Rukkukamui (def. Yota Shigemori) | September 22, 2020 | |
2 | Yota Shigemori (def. Suarek Rukkukamui) | July 18, 2021 | |
Weight limit: 60 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Taimu Hisai (def. Soichiro Arata) | December 11, 2022 | |
Hisai vacated the title in 2023 in order to move u in weight | |||
Weight limit: 57.5 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Haruto Yasumoto (def. Shogo Kuriaki) | June 9, 2019 | |
Yasumoto vacated the title on July 28, 2022, after signing with RISE. [13] | |||
2 | Eisaku Ogasawara (def. Takeru Owaki) | September 23, 2022 | |
Weight limit: 55 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Eisaku Ogasawara (def. King Kyosuke) | March 13, 2021 |
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Ogasawara vacated the title on August 18, 2022, in order to move up to featherweight. [14] | |||
2 | Issei SaenchaiGym (def. Yuki Morioka) | November 19, 2022 | |
3 | Hikaru Furumura (def. Issei SaenchaiGym) | August 6, 2023 | |
Weight limit: 53.5 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Kyoha (def. Kohei Adachi) | September 25, 2021 | |
Kyoha vacated the title on ????. | |||
2 | Riku Otsu (def. Shinta) | August 6, 2023 | |
Weight limit: 52 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Yusei Shirahata (def. Ryuto Oinuma) | February 28, 2021 | |
Shirahata vacated the title on March 3, 2022. [15] | |||
2 | Shinta (def. Riku Otsu) | December 11, 2022 | |
Shinta vacated the title on 2023, in order to move up to bantamweight. | |||
Weight limit: 75 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Shintaro Matsukura (def. Hijiri Tamura) | July 18, 2021 | |
Matsukura vacated the title on March 3, 2022. [16] | |||
Weight limit: 70 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Kaito Ono (def. Hinata) | February 28, 2021 | |
Weight limit: 67.5 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Ryotaro (def. Daiki Watabe) | September 23, 2022 | |
Weight limit: 65 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Chihiro Suzuki (def. Keijirō Miyakoshi) | July 18, 2021 | |
Weight limit: 62.5 kg
Weight limit: 57.5 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Ryusei (def. Ginji) | October 29, 2021 | |
Weight limit: 55 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Seiya Furuki (def. Reo "red" Kudo) | December 11, 2022 |
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Weight limit: 52 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Ryu Hanaoka (def. Takumi Hamada) | September 25, 2021 | |
Hanaoka vacated the title on July 28, 2022, after signing with RISE. [17] | |||
Weight limit: 47.5 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Panchan Rina (def. Miki Kitamura) | March 12, 2022 | |
Rina vacated the title on February 17, 2023, after being arrested on fraud charges [18] | |||
Weight limit: 46 kg
No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
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1 | Panchan Rina (def. Misaki) | August 30, 2020 | |
Rina vacated the title on December 19, 2021, in order to move up in weight. [19] | |||
Date | Champion | Nationality | Event | Location | Runner-up | Nationality |
2020-02-11 | Renta Nishioka | Japan | Knock Out Championship.1 | Tokyo, Japan | Koki Bazooka | Japan |
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