It's Showtime CEO Simon Rutz with K-1 Event Producer Tanigawa Rutz attended the K-1 World MAX Final 16 show in Fukuoka last night and affirmed that the working relationship between It's Showtime and K-1 will continue throughout the year. Tanigawa jokingly suggested sending Juichiro Nagashima to compete in It's Showtime; Rutz said he didn't think he'd go over well.
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