And for the moron who wrote saying that a) Akiyama can’t fight without his gi and b) can’t strike here’s a clip of him against Denis Kang. Akiyama has fought a good deal without the gi, and here around the 5:00 mark he puts Kang to sleep with a slick combination. Everyone knows [...]

Interview with the next UFC middleweight champion Yoshihiro Akiyama. Bonus footage of Akiyama training in a sparkly shirt. Do you know how big of a badass you have to be to train in a sparkly shirt? Chuck Norris uses his peripheral vision when he rolls up on Akiyama.

And we can never get [...]

Here’s some more great commercials with the future UFC middleweight champion Yoshihiro Akiyama:

Here’s a couple more Kia commercials featuring Akiyama. Akiyama can carry a suit. GSP may soon have a tough rival for best dressed UFC fighter:

Could Akiyama be any cooler?

There have been rumors of a potentially epic matchup between newly crowned Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight champion Eddie Alverez and Gesias ‘JZ Calvan’ Calvancante at DREAM XI. Word on the streets of Tokyo is that its not going to happen. Alverez wants to stay loyal to Bellator and clearly realizes that JZC is [...]

And its as good as it sounds:

From our Eastern European correspondent Edo Balic:
Mirko Cro Cop has recently been hospitalized due to salmonella. According to his manager, he’s already out of the hospital but this obviously puts his involvement at DREAM 10 in doubt. Also, his manager says that ‘this is the first he’s heard’ of a fight with Mighty [...]

You may have already noticed this elsewhere on the site, but DREAM has released the promo poster for DREAM 10. Don’t forget that we’ll have live DREAM 10 coverage on 7/20 at 12:00 midnight Pacific/3 AM Eastern:

DREAM 10 LIVE COVERAGE @ SAVSCI

Let’s see Anderson Silva do this. Here’s future UFC middleweight champion Yohsihiro Akiyama singing a ballad. If the UFC doesn’t screw it up he’ll be a huge superstar in the US: