A spin-off promotion of K-1, the HEROS promotion started off the New Year with some controversy. The league temporarily lost one of its great fighters to Olympic dreams while another fighter retired. What made matters worse was that one of their new middleweights was caught cheating. At K-1 Dynamite, Yoshihiro Akiyama was caught using Oil of Olay to grease his legs, making him slippery to the advances of Kazushi Sakuraba. Though Akiyama initially won the contest, the result was changed to a "No Contest" and Akiyama was suspended for six months.
Despite all these early issues, the promotion hoped that HEROS 8 would put it back on the right track.
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