That’s the rumor making the rounds in the Japanese fight media. The Japanese fighting public is a very dichotomous group: on one hand they may be the most knowledgeable and respectful fight fans on the planet. Well, most knowledgeable on the planet outside of Portland, Oregon where THE SAVAGE SCIENCE headquarters is …
Here’s something interesting that clearly underscores the mainstream acceptance of MMA. It really doesn’t have anything to do with the sport, other than it being used as an example in a political opinion column by a writer named RS Davis. What’s significant is that there’s no disclaimers, no “human cockfighting” blasts–the writer uses …
Typically cool promo clip for tonight’s DREAM.6 event:
DREAM has reordered the matches on the official DREAM.6 card, presumably to reflect their actual order. The middleweight GP final between the winners of Ronaldo Jacare/Zelig Glasic and Melvin Manhouf/Gegard Mousasi will be the main event. The SAVSCI staff likes Jacare and Mousasi to reach the finals.
Immediately preceeding that match will be Mirko …
HDNet Fights has posted a DREAM 6 preview show:
Shinya Aoki will fight Todd Moore at DREAM.6. The event will take place on 9/23 in Tokyo.
DREAM.6 card at DREAM Official website
UPDATE: Here’s some info on Todd Moore–he’s got a 9-2 record, but is coming off of two straight losses. He competed in the WEC briefly (where both of his losses occurred). …
New blog entry from Josh Barnett who, among many other things, praises the excellent synergy between MMA and metal:
Props to Joachim Hansen winning the DREAM tourney. As I was sitting there watching the fights and Joachim was in the finals to face Aoki in a rematch I had a feeling. When He came out to …
The never dull Shinya Aoki discourses on his immediate fighting future and Japanese energy drinks for erectile dysfunction in his 8/11/08 Kamipro.com column translated by the essential SukiMMA:
It’s very hot every day. To change my feeling, I went to Kamakura. My destination was Tsuruoka Hachimangu(Shrine). I saw many people who were short of breath by …
Check out the awesomeness of the animation in the Japanese DREAM.5 opening montage….
Here’s the Aoki/Uno prefight video from DREAM.5. Highlight is Aoki watching vintage judo footage on YouTube, no doubt looking for inspiration for yet another sick submission that shouldn’t be humanly possible:
