Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003: Inoki Festival was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 and kickboxing

Kickboxing

Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....

 event promoted by Antonio Inoki

Antonio Inoki

is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes...

 on December 31, 2003 at the Kobe Wing Stadium

Kobe Wing Stadium

, nicknamed , called Home's Stadium Kobe for the J. League association football events and the rugby football Top League events, is a football stadium in Misaki Park, Hyogo-ku, Kobe, Japan. The stadium's capacity is 30,132. This stadium, which features a retractable roof, is the home ground of J...

 in Kobe, Japan. It was the follow-up to Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001

Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001

Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2001: K-1 vs. Inoki was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Antonio Inoki on December 31, 2001 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan....

and Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2002

Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2002

Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2002: K-1 vs. Inoki was a mixed martial arts and kickboxing event promoted by Antonio Inoki and K-1 on December 31, 2002 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan...

. Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 was one of three major events held on the same night in Japan to mark Ōmisoka

Omisoka

, New Year's Eve, is the second-most important day in Japanese tradition because it is the final day of the old year and the eve of New Year's Day, which is the most important day of the year....

(New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...

), with K-1 PREMIUM 2003 Dynamite!!

K-1 PREMIUM 2003 Dynamite!!

K-1 PREMIUM 2003 Dynamite!! was an annual kickboxing and mixed martial arts event held by K-1 on New Year's Eve, Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at the Nagoya Dome in Nagoya, Japan...

and Pride Shockwave 2003

PRIDE Shockwave 2003

Pride Shockwave 2003 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. Gary Goodridge announced he would retire from Pride. It took place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan on December 31, 2003.- Quinton Jackson vs. Ikuhisa Minowa:Jackson defeated Minowa by TKO ...

being the other two.

The event was headlined by a special rules bout, in which the fight would be stood up after 20 seconds on the ground, between Japanese professional wrestler Kazuyuki Fujita

Kazuyuki Fujita

is a Japanese professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and a former amateur wrestler. He has fought in mixed martial arts promotions including PRIDE, K-1 and currently fighting in Sengoku....

 and American boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 Imamu Mayfield

Imamu Mayfield

Imamu Amiri Mayfield is an American professional boxer.-Career:Mayfield turned pro in 1994 and was a popular local fighter known for being on boxing cards in various New Jersey venues. He won the IBF Cruiserweight Title with a win over Uriah Grant in 1997...

.

Results

• Heavyweight MMA bout:   Rene Rooze
  Rene Rooze
  Rene Rooze is a Dutch former kickboxer and mixed martial artist.-Biography and career:As a member of Team Aerts, he was an active fighter competing in mainly European events and accumulating a kickboxing record of 32-7-1 with 4 KOs...
  
   vs.   Tadao Yasuda
  Tadao Yasuda
  Tadao Yasuda is a retired sumo and professional wrestler from Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. He competed in sumo from 1979 to 1992, under the shikona of Takanofuji, achieving the rank of komusubi, and afterwards turned to professional wrestling, in which he competed from 1994 to 2011.-Sumo career:He made his...
  
  

Rooze defeated Yasuda via TKO (punches) at 0:50 of round 1.

• Catchweight (214 lb) MMA bout:   Rich Franklin
  Rich Franklin
  Rich Jay Franklin II is an American mixed martial artist and former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion.-Background:...
  
   vs.   Lyoto Machida
  Lyoto Machida
  Lyoto Carvalho Machida is a Japanese-Brazilian mixed martial artist from Belém, Brazil who fights as a light heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
  

Machida defeated Franklin via TKO (head kick and punches) at 1:03 of round 2.

• Heavyweight MMA bout:   Angelo Araujo vs.   Aleksander Emelianenko
  Aleksander Emelianenko
  Alexander Vladimirovich Emelianenko , more commonly known as Alexander Emelianenko or Aleksander Emelianenko, is a Russian mixed martial artist. He is a three-times Russian national Sambo champion and three-time world Sambo champion in the absolute division...
  
  

Emelianenko defeated Araujo via TKO (cut) at 4:28 of round 2.

• Heavyweight MMA bout:   Josh Barnett
  Josh Barnett
  Joshua Lawrence Barnett is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who currently fights in the heavyweight division of Strikeforce. Barnett has been an accomplished fighter in mixed martial arts, winning the UFC Heavyweight Championship and the King of Pancrase Openweight...
  
   vs.   Semmy Schilt
  Semmy Schilt
  Semmy Schilt , also known as Sem Schilt, is a Dutch Ashihara karateka, kickboxer, mixed martial artist and four time K-1 World GP champion. He is the first and only fighter in K-1 history to win the championship three times in a row, and also shares the record with Ernesto Hoost for most GPs won,...
  
  

Barnett defeated Schilt via submission (armbar) at 4:48 of round 3.

• Heavyweight kickboxing bout:   Hiromi Amada
  Hiromi Amada
  Hiromi Amada is a Japanese super heavyweight kickboxer and boxer from Gunma, Japan competing in K-1.-Biography and career:He made his K-1 debut in 1999 with a unanimous decision win over John Wyatt...
  
   vs.   Michael McDonald
  Michael McDonald (kickboxer)
  Michael "The Black Sniper" McDonald is a retired Canadian Heavyweight kickboxer. He is the former three time K-1 World Grand Prix in Las Vegas tournament champion.-Early life:Michael McDonald was born in Birmingham, England...
  
  

McDonald defeated Amada via KO (right high kick) at 0:46 of round 2.

• Heavyweight kickboxing bout:   Stefan Leko
  Stefan Leko
  Stefan "Blitz" Leko is a German-Croatian heavyweight kickboxer. He is former Muay Thai world heavyweight champion and Kickboxing world super-heavyweight champion, K-1 European Grand Prix 1998 champion, 1999 K-1 Dream champion and two time K-1 World Grand Prix in Las Vegas tournament champion...
  
   vs.   Kazunari Murakami
  Kazunari Murakami
  is a Japanesefreelance professional wrestler and a retired mixed martial artist, best known for his appearances in Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX and Big Mouth LOUD, of which he was a founding member...
  
  

Leko defeated Murakami via KO (right high kick) at 1:08 of round 1.

• Heavyweight MMA bout:   Fedor Emelianenko
  Fedor Emelianenko
  Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko) is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist. He has won numerous tournaments and accolades in multiple sports, most notably the Pride 2004 Grand Prix and the World Combat Sambo championship on four occasions, as well as medaling in the Russian national Judo...
  
   vs.   Yuji Nagata
  Yuji Nagata
  is a Japanese professional wrestler. He was known for his perennial tweener status, currently a solid fan favorite, and his stiff, shoot style wrestling technique....
  
  

Emelianenko defeated Nagata via TKO (punches) at 1:02 of round 1.

• Openweight MMA bout:   Amar Suloev
  Amar Suloev
  Amar Suloev is a Russian-Yazidi-Armenian mixed martial artist with a record of 24–7–0. He is a kickboxer/wrestler who has last fought Jacek Buczko at M-1 Challenge, where he won by a TKO...
  
   vs.   Din Thomas
  Din Thomas
  Din Yero Thomas is an American mixed martial arts fighter and part time break dancer, who was featured on The Ultimate Fighter 4. He currently runs two successful Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA academies in Port St. Lucie, Florida and is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Ricardo Liborio...
  
  

Suloev defeated Thomas via TKO (punches) at 4:22 of round 1.

• Heavyweight MMA bout:   Kazuyuki Fujita
  Kazuyuki Fujita
  is a Japanese professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and a former amateur wrestler. He has fought in mixed martial arts promotions including PRIDE, K-1 and currently fighting in Sengoku....
  
   vs.   Imamu Mayfield
  Imamu Mayfield
  Imamu Amiri Mayfield is an American professional boxer.-Career:Mayfield turned pro in 1994 and was a popular local fighter known for being on boxing cards in various New Jersey venues. He won the IBF Cruiserweight Title with a win over Uriah Grant in 1997...
  
  

Fujita defeated Mayfield via technical submission (arm-triangle choke) at 2:15 of round 2.

• Heavyweight MMA bout:   Tomohiko Hashimoto vs.   Alistair Overeem
  Alistair Overeem
  Alistair Cees Overeem is a British born Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer, signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is the former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Interim Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and made history by being the only fighter in combat...
  
  

Overeem defeated Hashimoto via TKO (knees) at 0:36 of round 1.

• Woman's MMA bout:   Yuka Tsuji
  Yuka Tsuji
  is a Japanese female mixed martial artist whose nickname is Vale Tudo Queen.Tsuji is a former Smackgirl tournament winner, Smackgirl Lightweight Champion and Valkyrie Featherweight Champion...
  
   vs.   Kaliopi Yeitsuidou

Tsuji defeated Yeitsuidou via decision (unanimous).