Tribute to Takeda Kozo HL

This is Takeda Kozo, champion Muay Thai fighter from Japan. I came across this HL clip while checking out my favourite muay thai blog www.mymuaythai.com. Kozo is one of the few foreigners to win a stadium belt in Thailand. He's known for his punishing low kicks as you'll see in the HL clip. Unfortunately when K-1 Max was introduced, he was already past his peak and thus was never that successful. Despite that he really is a quality fighter beating alot of big names from Thailand such as Kaoklai and Bigben. He actually beat Bigben by TKO via low kicks. I found it abit suspicious but it looks legit.

Personally I find Kozo abit one dimensional. He tends to rely too much on his low kicks. You'll see near the end of the clip he had an injury to his right shin but he kept kicking the bag with it. In the last match where he came in with that injury, he still relied only on his right low kick, despite the fact his opponent was a former wrestler. Not surprisingly he pulled out of his next match in the night.

Despite this, his low kicks are still awesome and this HL clip should show you guys how devastating it can be.