Attn CKO....

[AKA]

...guess what , I begin to like your ranking system.
I have 2 requests:
1 explanation: why only the first rd of the tournaments? (sorry I always been to lazy to read thge rules.
2. Pleaz tell us the JLB history inside CKO Ranking from the begininning, with the most importants fight etc....
3.U never really gave ur JLB top 20 fights, please do it today, coz today u are in an awesome mood, aint u?

[AKA]

oops that was 3 request, I'm a lil bit druuuuuuuunk. (Its wednesday, its OK)

[CentralKickboxing.Org]

1- Semi final and final results count for the tournament and one's record but not for rankings because they are not individual achievements. Glaube didn't beat Mori. Glaube and Karaev did it. Hoost didn't beat Jerome. Mori, Hunt and Hoost did it.

2- You asked for it.

1997/11/09 Ernesto Hoost [NED] defeated Jerome LeBanner [FRA] by KO-1
This fight was for the #1 rank. Hoost had taken it earlier in the year from Mike Bernardo. Unfortunately for Jerome, it was a tournament quarter final which at the time had a 5-count instead of a 10-count. Jerome took the knockdown and got up quickly, but not quickly enough. The following year, the rule changed to give all fighters a 10-count.

2000
(=2=) The first Top 10 list was based on the 2000 Grand Prix system. Jerome didn�ft participate in the tournament and neither did Mike Bernardo. Hoost won the Grand Prix and was the reigning CKO #1 rank. This made it relatively easy to flesh out the rest of the Top 10. Jerome was give #2 for defeating Ernesto in the final of the Osaka tournament earlier that year.

Jerome defended the #2 rank
2001/04/29 Jerome LeBanner defeated Pavel Majer by KO-1
2001/06/24 Jerome LeBanner defeated Stefan Leko by DEC-5
2001/08/19 Jerome LeBanner defeated Marc deWit by KO-2

(=7=) In the quarter final of the 2001 K-1 Grand Prix, Jerome lost the #2 rank to Mark Hunt and fell to #7
2001/12/08 Mark Hunt defeated Jerome LeBanner by KO-2

(=8=) When Mirko Filipovic defeated Mark Hunt for the #2 rank, Hunt fell to #7 and Jerome was forced to slide to #8.
Jerome defended the #8 rank
2002/03/03 Jerome LeBanner defeated Hiromi Amada by KO-1

(=7=) Jerome�fs rematch against Mark Hunt was for Hunt�fs #7 rank. Jerome won and took the rank. Hunt fell to #12.
Jerome LeBanner defeated Mark Hunt by TKO-2

(=8=) When Bob Sapp defeated Ernesto Hoost to claim the #1 rank, Hoost fell to #6 and Jerome was forced to slide down a rank to #8.
2002/10/05 Bob Sapp defeated Ernesto Hoost by TKO-1

Jerome defended #8
2002/10/05 Jerome LeBanner defeated Gary Goodridge by KO-1
2002/12/07 Jerome LeBanner defeated Akio Mori by KO-2
[NOTE: Jerome had the option of challenging Bob Sapp for the #1 rank or defending the #8 rank against Akio Mori. He chose Mori.]

(=7=) On 2002/12/31 #3 ranked Francisco Filho finished the year inactive and took a 5 rank penalty. Jerome slide up a rank to take #7.

Jerome defended the #7 rank
2003/06/14 Jerome LeBanner defeated Vitali Ahramenko by KO-2
2003/09/21 Jerome LeBanner defeated Osborne Machima by KO-2

(=6=) On 2003/10/11 Bob Sapp was disqualified [vs. Remy Bonjaski]. The CKO DQ rule gives a 5 rank penalty to the loser but doesn�ft give the rank to the winner. This created a vacancy that allowed Jerome to slide up to #6.

(=5=) On 2003/12/31 #3 ranked Errol Parris finished the year inactive and took a 5 rank penalty. Jerome slide up a rank to take #5.

Jerome defended #5
2004/07/17 Jerome LeBanner defeated Terence Reasby by KO-1

(=10=) In the K-1 eliminations, Jerome fought Frans Botha and couldn�ft continue into the overtime round. He therefore fell from #5 to #10.
2004/9/25 Francois Botha defeated Jerome LeBanner by TKO-3

(=11=) On 2004/12/04, Remy Bonjasky defeated Ernesto Hoost by DEC-4 to claim the #3 rank. This result forced Jerome to slide down one rank to #11.

Jerome defended #11
2004/12/04 Jerome LeBanner defeated Hiromi Amada by KO-2
2005/04/30 Jerome LeBanner defeated Oliver Van Damme by KO-1
2005/05/27 Jerome LeBanner defeated Cyril Abidi by KO-5
2005/07/02 Jerome LeBanner defeated Dimitry Podgaisky by KO-1

(=12=) On 2005/09/23, Peter Aerts defeated Siala-Mou Siliga by KO-2 to claim the #2 rank. This forced Jerome to slide down one rank to #12.

Jerome defended the #12 rank
2005/07/29 Jerome LeBanner defeated Gary Goodridge by KO-1

(=13=) On 2005/11/19, Sem Schilt defeated Ray Sefo by DEC-3 for the #3 rank. This forced Jerome to slide down one rank to #13.

On 2005/11/19, Jerome attempted to regain the #2 rank from Peter Aerts but lost by DEC-4.

(=12=) On 2005/12/31 #5 ranked Mirko Filipovic finished the year inactive and took a rank penalty. Jerome slide up a rank to take #12.

His next bout against Remy Bonjasky will be for the #4 rank.

[CentralKickboxing.Org]

3- I can't get to 20. Here are 15 meaningful ones for me. After that they all are kind of like a day at the office for JLB.

1. Satake- Delayed effects of KO were cool.
2. Bernardo- Nice and rough. Low kick KO.
3. Takeru- Jerome got upstage by this little guys fighting spirit. Still won by KO.
4. Ernesto- KO win. Jerome is now a player.
5. Rick Roufus- Won after suffering a knockdown.
6. Greco- Won after suffering a knockdown.
7. Skelton- Handled Matt far too easily for comfort. Jerome was a new man.
8. Aerts- Stops reigning K-1 champ in 1:11.
9. Filho- Girls in my office cried when they found out Filho was out. Francisco never fully recovered.
10. Nortje- At the time it was a reasonable match up. Biggest guy against hardest hitter. Immovable object against irresistible force.
11. Braga- Easy fight but Braga was airborne.
12. Mark Hunt III- Won after suffering a knockdown.
13. Don Frye- the �gWeekend at Bernie�fs�h jokes afterward were a riot.
14. Gary Goodridge I- Gary was a Pride fighter at the time who punched Bernardo in the back of the head and trash talked the K-1 fighters. He was out with a right jab. Nice.
15. Hoost IV- The broken arm was costly but Jerome wouldn�ft quit.

[CentralKickboxing.Org]

The above Jerome history was compiled from www.centralkickboxing.org information, not from inaccessible files on my PC.

If you want to trace the activity of the top ranks from 2000 to 2006, click this link- http://www.centralkickboxing.org/History.htm.

[AKA]

Thx interesting read!
Who the fuck is Errol Parris?

[Shinbone]

A Dutch fighter from Suriname

[CentralKickboxing.Org]

Dutch guy.
When the ranking started in 2000, Abidi was ranked pretty high. He lost his rank to Andrew Thompson. Thompson lost it to Parris. This is a good example of a rank slipping through the K-1 fingers. A kid by the name of Badr Hari took the rank from Parris and put himself in everyone's face.

In retrospect, Parris' best win was over Remy Bonjasky.

[AKA]

thx

[Tommy_Arashikage]

IIRC, Errol Parris hasn't been around since '02. Makes you wonder what fighters like him and Andrew Thompson, etc. are up to.

[MZN]

I heard that Parris is going to do an official retirement fight somewhere soon against ehm I dunno.