K-1 WORLD MAX 2026

K-1 WORLD MAX 2026 (12 September 2026, Yoyogi National Gymnasium 2nd Gym, Tokyo) is over. In the featherweight title fight, challenger Rui Okubo knocked out champion Ryota Ishida with a counter left hook at 1:25 of round 3. Three of the five title fights produced new champions, and the -70kg World MAX tournament is down to eight men, who meet in the quarterfinals on Tuesday 29 December at Yokohama BUNTAI.

Key results

• Featherweight title: Rui Okubo (challenger) KO'd Ryota Ishida (c), R3 1:25 — a left hook countering Ishida's left uppercut after two even rounds.
• Super bantamweight title: Riamu beat champion Akihiro Kaneko by extra-round split decision (2-1) in their third meeting; regulation ended in a 1-0 draw. Riamu now holds the K-1 and Krush belts.
• Lightweight title: Kiyomitsu Samuel Nagasawa, 36, survived a round-1 knockdown and stopped champion Yuzuki Satomi at 1:41 of round 2 after dropping him with a left straight.
• Super lightweight title: Taio Asahisa (c) beat Alassane Kamara by unanimous decision — his first defence.
• Super featherweight title: Tomoya Yokoyama (c) knocked out Thun Menghong, R2 1:25.
• Heavyweight: Maxim Baklanov KO'd Bogdan Stoica with a calf kick, R1 1:45.
• Women's flyweight: Mona Kimura beat Marine Nicol by extra-round unanimous decision.

-70kg tournament: opening-round results

Di Vara and Pankhurst earned their places at the final qualifier in Fukuoka in July (see K-1 Dontaku 2026 results).

Next: 29 December, Yokohama BUNTAI — quarterfinals to final

K-1's official event page lists the quarterfinals, semifinals and final on the same card.

Semifinals: winner of (1) vs winner of (2), and winner of (3) vs winner of (4); the final follows (all 3x3 min with one extra round).

• Tickets: on sale through Japanese outlets including eplus (general sale closes 26 Dec 23:59 JST, checked 2026-10-14), with an inbound page for overseas buyers at eplus.tickets/k-1/. Seat types, prices and the seating map are on K-1's official event page.
• Start time and broadcast: listed as TBD by K-1 (checked 2026-10-14). We will add them here once announced.

Other results

Yuta Murakoshi beat Kenta Hayashi by unanimous decision, Kenshin Tanabe KO'd Koji Ikeda (R2 2:15), Takuma Tsukamoto beat Manuel Menendez by unanimous decision, and Taiju Kurata won the prelim over Raigo Miyazaki by unanimous decision. Stoica came in after the K-1 World GP 2026 -90kg tournament.

Sources: K-1 official results, K-1 official Dec 29 event page, Wikipedia, "2026 in K-1", eplus K-1 (all checked 2026-10-14).