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K-1 Hero’s Oympia Korea took place in Japan while most of us were still in bed here in the United States, and those who attempted to predict this event will be shaking our heads for some time.

As I can’t personally claim to be familiar with all these fighters, I can only say the following based on their records: “upset, upset, upset”. A fighter with a 6-10 record, Shungo Oyama, beat Carlos Newton, who had a winning record until this fight. Min Soo Kim, a fighter who now has a 3-6 record and who will likely only be remembered for being the first person Brock Lesnar ever beat up in MMA, beat a very experienced Minowaman, whose record is now 38-26-8. Brazilian Fabio Silva was 9-3 coming into his encounter against Dong Sik Yoon, who had a record of just two wins and four losses, and yep - you guessed it - Silva lost.

For Brazilian jiu-jitsu enthusiasts out there, the news that Marcelo Garcia lost his debut MMA match will be disheartening. His opponent, Dae Won Kim, brings his record into the positive with 4 wins, and 3 losses.

Here’s the way things shook down on our site, as revealed by looking at the detailed results page for this event.

• 123 users here on MMA Predictions predicted the fights on the card.
• No one predicted the whole event correctly! Given that it’s a card from a foreign fight organization with fighters that people aren’t so familiar with, and that there were 8 fights to predict here, that’s no shocker.
• The average correct prediction percentage on the card across all MMAPredictions users was 27.4%, which is frankly abysmal. Congratulations to our two best predictors, Darcman and toxikfw and who both got 63% of the card predicted correctly.

According to FEG sources, the HERO’S Korea 2007 attracted a full house of 5,289 to the Jang Chung Gymnasium.

Next on the way is the 2007 IFL Grand Prix Round 1, which takes place on Saturday. Three of the fights on that card are scheduled to be televised live on MyNetworkTV.

- Caleb

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