K-1 World Grand Prix

The K-1 World Grand Prix, also called the K-1 World GP, is an elimination kickboxing tournament that the K-1 organization ran every year from 1993 under the ownership of the Fighting and Entertainment Group. Each year K-1 staged several sixteen man, eight match grand prix qualifying tournaments in different parts of the world to decide which sixteen fighters would enter the main World GP final. Fighters chose their bracket positions in a lottery draw, so the quarter-final pairings were not set by seeding alone. It became the best known title tournament of the heavyweight kickboxing era and is the event that Stefan Leko and Gokhan Saki are associated with as champions.