Before reigning ONE Lightweight Kickboxing World Champion Regian Eersel puts his belt on the line against hard-hitting #2-ranked contender Mustapha Haida in the main event of ONE: FISTS OF FURY III, relive every second of his titanic rematch with Dutch legend Nieky Holzken!
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I came from watching with surprise how Cosmo literally broke sage's face to pieces with a blow, to then see Holzken tear Cosmo apart, and end up in a video where Holzem is dominated by Eerserl. There really are levels in the combat game.
SPOT ON. The animal kingdom is insane.
was looking for exactly this comment.
Same trajectory for me
Same. Where too now?
@@danksoilgrowerjc5782 Brad riddel going the distance with Ersel
The best part of the whole fight? Is when they have respect for each other in the end. Like a true fighter. Respect.
Incredible fight. Amazing condition and performance from Eersel against a really high level opponent
Against the highest level opponent
Still one of the best despite his age
Looks like Holzken found his Kryptonite. I dont think Ive ever seen someone keep up such accurate pressure like Eersel does. I could watch these two fight any day
This is exactly what I was thinking too. Holzken is always so strong and aggressive its weird to see.l
His age is catching up to him. 37 is already pretty old, not many can keep fighting like this on that age. Eersel just too young, too eager. Holzky doesnt have the energyanymore to respond to everything Eersel keeps throwing.
First Holzkens kryptonite was Buakaw. He showed to other fighters how you should fight with Nicky to win without any concerns. And I think Eeres saw these fights because he use almost the same strategy.
@@anuarbalgabayev yeah but that is muy thai foreigners can't really win if they don't score a couple of knockdowns or by ko against thai guys
Eersel is a beast! @Anuar Balgabayev- glad you mentioned Buakaw! But no one mention Cedric Doumbe who has 2 win over Holzken. I know they were split but still :D
Can you please put the dates of the fights in the description?
Why does it seem like these One fights are absolute barn burners every time? Where do these guys come from? These fights are ruthless!
They are both from The Netherlands
"Where do they come from?" You make it sound like these are some unknown bums. The guy who lost is one of the great kickboxers of the post K-1 era, while the winner is likely a future great.
Welcome to the world of kickboxing my friend. Look up Dutch Style Kickboxing. They are the kickboxing greats. Ramon Dekker Peter Aerts Ernesto Hoost Remy Bonjaski Andy Souwer Nieky Holzken Gohkan Saki Badr Hari Tyrone Spong Rico Verhoeven Albert Kraus Robin van Roosmalen Etc. Etc. Etc.
Before UFC are just American shows They're Legends in Kickboxing world class
The netherlands
Volume is 👑 Precision beats power and timing beats speed but nothing can beat someone who keeps a pace like the champ.
OK Conor.
Eersel's combinations with follow up knees are deadly. I like that he doesn't care if it lands solidly. Even with the opponent's guard up they impact against their arms. That def hurts.
Never seen Holzken back up in a Fight dudes a legend!! Wish he would have let those hands go
Especially y to on the body. He’s one of the best body punchers in the world and he didn’t go to the body much at all for some strange reason.
@@MaximusWolfe Eeerel seemed to be just out of his range for the body shots.. Nieky swung and missed with a few.
Look up Buakaw vs Holzkien from the K1 Max days - in their second fight, Buakaw just played with him.
I thought watching this that he was hurt. His energy was gone. We haven't seem that from him ever. So he must have been hurt
@@neilwilliams2883 Buakaw was on a different lvl tho, Nicky might be the prince of pressure but buakaw the tank was definately the king. I will get you sooner or later so stop running, you will only lose dead tired....
Eersel looks like he's in a higher weight class than Holzken. I'm impressed that Holzken was able to dump him in the clinch so easily.
Nieky got robbed on the first one. Eersel looked better in this fight though
@@CodyBunker Didn't catch the first fight, I'll check it out.
Holzken=Legend !
Holzken turtle way of fighting doesn't work against somebody that doesn't get tired.
Nieky "slept" in this fight too much
Eersel's output is insane.
Impressive from Eersel
Wow a 9-8 1st round, kickboxing is so underrated in America. Its soo fun to watch fr
Glory is really good
Why does the commentator keep differentiating between The Netherlands and Surinam? The Surinam fighters are Dutch, it's plain and simple. They were born in The Netherlands and trained by either European/Dutch coaches or by Surinam coaches who were also born/trained in The Netherlands.
Suriname not Dutch bro 🖕🖕🖕
Lower listed opponents always want to prove themselves against long lasting champions, Eersel did it very well here and grabbed his chance , and became a champion holzken proved himself many many times , i hope that eersel hold on his belt and take many more in the future. respect 4 both fighters
Dit ben ik niet gewend van Nieky. Misschien was hij ziek of andere reden?
Eersel has some SICK combos you know!
Weird to think that Eersel lost to Cosmo Alexandre in 2015 then just 4 years later he's champion and dominating the guy who made Cosmo look amateur.
He got rocked early. Didn't think his guard would be broken. But he fought it out .
Exactly everyone else is making it seem like he wouldn’t completely tear apart 20 other world class athletes.
A true disciple of Sagat
What I have experience in my life is that......everything has its downfall...just like young to old...good sportsmanship
You speak truth brother
Except Tom Brady……. And all the other fighters who retired early
Thank you Regian
I keep on wondering if the rings girls were also steam boat captains at some stage..
Cracking fight!
Holzken had a bad night. Maybe he was sick or wasn't feeling well. Hats off to Eersel. Great fight.
if nieky fought him in his prime, nieky would have easily defeated him
I think nieky defeated him in his prime, but this wasnt his prime. Eersel is a good fighter
It has nothing to do with that. Stylistically Eersel is a nightmare for Nieky regardless if he is 25 or 37. Buakaw put the blueprint on how to beat Nieky and Eersel just followed that. It has nothing to do with prime.
Eersel had his number in this one..........Damn good fight as always when Nieky is involved.
Holzken had no power behind those kicks hooks or straights... He just didn't want to go to war. Not saying he didn't want to win, but he sure as hell didn't give it all.
It seems llike Nieky held back. Maybe he had a problem with his cardio. Most of his attacks seemed like lite sparing. Or am I crazy???
Maybe he tired of doin something...
Suriname 🇸🇷
This isn’t the same Holzken that backed down and beat up a juiced to the gills Cosmo Alexander......
This is crazy. Better than mma
Both very technical fighters... Eersel just had too much intensity that wore his opponent out.
👍👍, 🏋👊👊, greetings to ONE Championship sports ......
how tough you gotta be to back down nicky eersel a beast cant lie
That African guy is such a good fighter. Job well done.
actually he's 🇸🇷
Nieky just spars in there. I don't know why he don't throw more punches and kicks. Other guy is doing 3 times more than Nieky.
Why he does so little in some of his fights is quite baffling. He such an incredibly good body puncher yet he only threw about five or six body punches throughout the whole fight. I just can’t figure it.
@@MaximusWolfe Because Eersel just moves out of range to avoid body punches, besides Eersel threw lots of jabs to the body and knees which slowed Nieky down. Apparently lots of people in the comments missed those.
I limped for 3 days after watching this
Watched 4 random niekys fights where he dominated and then watched this one. Something is off here.
В первый раз вижу чтоб Хольцкин проиграл🧐
That last round was very strange, holzken looked like he was shadow boxing the whole round
Nice one save by the bell but won thanks to bell
Wow! He absolutely schooled him.
No he was just more active honestly.
Eersel is smooth like eel🗿🗿😂 what a fast combo
Man ONE is legit! They have some dawgs on the roster! The ufc is the biggest with some of the best to ever do it but ONE also has some of the best mixed martial artist in the world. Big fan of ONE and I love how they keep adding more talent.
Eersel is real deal
One championchip need other ring girls😔
These are olds fights
confirmed
They're terrible
Agreed, they come across as being "special"
@@andrewford80 😂😐
Nieky ❤️🇳🇱
Mitch Chilson sounds like an AI generated name
How would Adesanya go at this level?
leg day??
damn this was a great fight
One sided fight.
Holzken never put anything on any of his strikes, it looks to me as though Holzken was paid to loose. It was rigged in my opinion .
But if he won you wouldn't have said any of this
@@daebak7370 yeah but he didn't win and he didn't even put up a fight, he was paid to lose. That's the point.
What's your point?
I can’t wait for One to air in the USA on TNT!!!!!
Nieky !! 👏✊✊👌
2:52
If he want nicky win this fight. He is a very good and technical fighter. He ins't normal!
Ken vs sagat
Hip-hop hurray Angela lee 🏆
Wisse vs earsel ?
Ziegezagge ziegezagge Hellemond! 💪
Wow , that’s not the same Niki that I’ve watched before. He looked defeated from the first round, maybe it’s time to hung them gloves and retire.
Holzken looked like he always does, Eersel just had a really high output. Holzken is still a great fighter and no need to retire.
Did you see Holzken last fight? He finished the fight with a body shot.
In kick boxing sports Holtzken is the best ! a real legend
People can say what they want, but I agree with you on this one. He didn't looked motivated from the start. Weird aura hanging around him this time.
At the 2.30 mark. You can see something change in the body language of nicky. Didn't have the same intensity after that. I was thinking, he could have been hurt or hurt himself during this exchange , and was doing damage controle afterward.
One show
Looks like holzken left legs is death out from the beginning. That leg cost this match imo.
First fight had to be a tie, this one Eersel won round 3 4 5
You give holzken round 1 ??
@@euancampbell2214 alots of blind sheep people's these days
round 1 was 10-8 for eersel as well
I hated holzken for beating bazooka joe but damn i cant hate him anymore lol.
Nieky is the best
Eersel didn’t allow Nieky to approach. Interrupting Nieky’s momentum.
More technical and bigger gas tank
@@MikeD-hn9hf yep, although, i didn’t perceive Nieky was tired, but, had to.
If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much.
Andere trainer, andere stijl en honger terug, misschien dat Holzken nog kan...
Holzken played it too safe. As a challenger you need to take the risk and brawl. If I didn't know beforehand I would guess Eersel was the challenger.
I saw Nieky appear for a moment or two. . .otherwise, it was some spectator who looked like him. . . . Wth was he thinking in there?? Bad showing for Holzken.
Gotta pressure him crowd him on the inside when fighting a guy w a longer reach
молодой Бадр Хари
Holzken is klaar, beetje jabben, losse zachte techniken om niet geblesseerd te raken. Ik denk voor de startpremie
Holzken don't fight, they pay good
Nico сдался в конце 2ого раунда и не выбросил ни 1 силового удара более, продолжал бой дабы сохранить лицо чемпиона glory
Poor guy
O N E girls lindas
With my limited knowledge of martial arts, I'd say Eersel is perfect combination of Sagat and Dhalsim
Nicky needs to retire now
Hi
Not even tryin….
Suriname is 3 time larger than, the tiny Netherlands.
Tiny Netherlands owned Suriname for 300 years til 1975 😂🤣
Suriname 🇸🇷❤️💪
I read you can't use knees in kickboxing so what's up?
Where have you read that? Things as knees and spinning back fist for example are all allowed. Only things that aren't allowed in kickboxing are elbow strikes (muay thai and mma), take downs (mma) and prolonged clinching (muay thai).
Anormal fight with Nicky, i see all fight of him...In this match is not nicky!!!
💯🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱💯
Is eersel Venezuelan or has some Venezuelan heritage?
No. He has Surinamese roots
😶😶💣💥
Partie du ksw
menang banyak tato aja kau....
Suriname 🇸🇷💪
them ring girls look scary af
i noticed that, the girls that hold the round number look all the same. can someone tell me if they are all sisters? looks to me that they all went to the same surgeon for their nose jobs.
😂🤣🤣🤣
They spend 80% sparring and not FIGHTING! 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
Exactly! 🥱
This is not MMA
It's kickboxing
Thats the fun thing about ONE events, you have MMA, kickboxing and Muay Thai bouts in one event.
LoL 😂
What gave it away?
Nothing gets by you, huh?
Holzken was boring and just no energy pathetic fight for Holzken!!