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Masato will have retirement match on K-1 NYE ‘09 show
By Zach Arnold | April 1, 2009
He officially announced his retirement intentions today at a press conference in Tokyo. There will be an exhibition match involving “The Second Masato” HIROYA on 4/21 at Fukuoka Marine Messe, in which the media focus on Masato’s retirement will start building up for the next eight months. Masato is set to fight at the K-1 MAX Nippon Budokan show this July, and then the retirement match on 12/31.
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F.E.G. loose another big big star. I think Masato and Akiyama are the most important parts of F.E.G.
Well that’s a shame. So it looks like there will never be another Japanese K-1MAX finals winner then. Oh well, here’s to his life going good after fighting. I don’t blame him for getting the hell out at this point. He’ll probably get a job with FEG in some sort of capacity or become a trainer.
I put his reitrment at….6 mos to a year.
Fighters never retire
haha April fools!
w/ masato gone, K-1 MAX is as good as dead
@ Chuck: You haven’t heard of Sato?