Josh Barnett is scheduled to return to MMA action at DREAM 13 in Japan. Here’s his latest pro wrestling endeavor with Inoki Genome Federation against Bob Sapp. Barnett is very good at ‘worked’ fights and carries Sapp to a watchable match that is better than 99% of the matches that the WWE and [...]

Our friend David Glisan at SportsUntapped talks about Gegard Mousasi leaving the M-1 Global fold:
You know its generally a slow MMA news cycle when a fighter’s management change is considered a top news story, but that was the case late last week when Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi confirmed in an emailed release that [...]

Just posted–SavSci Japan editor Lyman Hoyt evaluates Satoshi Ishii’s professional MMA debut:
Evaluating Satoshi Ishii’s MMA debut @ The Savage Science

Much is being made of Aoki’s ‘flipping off’ of Hirota after the match. For now I’ll reserve judgment and see if I can get some context from our people in Japan, but on appearance alone it was an uncharacteristically classless move by the Japanese submission god. Someone I spoke with familiar with Japanese [...]

The DREAM Super Hulk tournament may have began as one of the more bizarre spectacles in fight sport history involving competitors like Jose Canseco, Bob Sapp, Jan Nortje and Hong Man Choi but even with the withdrawal of Gegard Mousasi from the mix the final between Minowaman and Sokoudjou could be an entertaining fight. [...]

Here’s the trailer video for the Fields Dynamite New Years’ Eve show:

Still not a lot of details, but a lot of talk the great Shinya Aoki could appear on a March Strikeforce card. No secret we’re huge Aoki fans. Still no idea what the significance of the animated mouse is. Also worth noting in this video–Jung Bu-Kyung’s entrance music, a techno updated version [...]

Man, I should have just sent you over to Middle Easy today and stayed in bed for another hour or two. Here’s their funny take on the newly released Fields Dynamite poster:
Strikeforce, UFC and any other MMA organization…just check this out. I’m not saying that your grungy, skulls and angel wings designs are whack [...]

Aoki is a force of nature…

And I’m sure you all know how excited *this* makes us–Sherdog is reporting that the DREAM lightweight champion and submission virtuoso Shinya Aoki will be attending Saturday’s Strikeforce event AND could make his US debut early next year:
Japanese star Shinya Aoki could make his U.S. debut in the Strikeforce cage in early 2010, the promotion’s [...]