Krush

Krush is a Japanese kickboxing promotion, a martial arts entertainment planning and promotional brand established in 2008 and the sister brand of K-1. It promotes kickboxing events across ten male and three female weight classes and is considered the second tier of K-1, the feeder brand that has produced fighters including Takeru Segawa, Tatsuya Tsubakihara and Yuki Egawa. Krush was launched in 2008 as a collaboration between K-1 and the All Japan Kickboxing Federation. After its representative and seven other members of the executive committee were arrested in June 2009 and the federation was dissolved, a new parent company called Good Loser kept the events running, and the first Krush tournament, a sixteen fighter grand prix for the lightweight title, was held on July 24, 2009. Women's bouts began in 2014, when Syuri became the first Krush women's flyweight champion on March 17, 2014. Krush shares the rules of K-1, with bouts of three three-minute rounds and an extension round after a draw. It was renamed K-1 KRUSH FIGHT in January 2019 and went back to the name Krush in December 2019.