When we last checked in with Kid Yamamoto following his recent surgery, he was filling his hours playing SimCity on the Nintendo DS. He most have lost interest in the video games since he’s taken up drawing, and SukiMMA brings us his Keith Haring-esque work:
Kid Yamamoto’s art @ SukiMMA

The Croatian sports media is reporting that Mirko Cro Cop vs. Alistair Overeem is a done deal for DREAM.6. We’ll update with details as we get them. Here’s a news report from Croatian television that should give you the general idea…
UPDATE: Our Eastern European source Edo adds the following note:
The report is …

He makes an effort to be diplomatic here and there, but EliteXC VP Jared Shaw is none too happy with “Nature Boy” KJ Noons–and with good reason. Fight Hype has an interview with Shaw, here’s a tasty excerpt:
PC: Are you anticipating a press conference from Noons' camp?
JS: Honestly, I don't care one way or …

The good folks at DREAM have updated their website with the poster for DREAM.6. While some Japanese MMA fanboys scrutinize the DREAM posters like Kennedy conspiracy theorists pour over the Zapruder film, in reality they’d put Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris on these if they thought if they could get away with it:

Here’s the highlight video from Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller’s self produced ‘Mayhem Show’. He’s either the funniest fighter in the sport, or else he’s just plain crazy. In any case, he’s one of a kind:

Walking computer of fighting techniques, MMA legend and general badass Bas Rutten dropped by the San Francisco 49ers locker room to give them a motivational speech. If they were smart, they’d listen to the man:
Apparently Rutten isn’t the only non-traditional motivational speaker to visit the Niners lately. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer …

DREAM lightweight GP winner Joachim Hansen needs to quit equivocating and tell us how he *really* feels about the UFC. We’ve emphasized the best line…

I would fight any one of the UFC lightweights, but the problem is that I will never put my foot in the octagon after they (UFC) tried to be funny. …

Here’s the backstory–word on the streets is that Vitor Belfort has a hand injury that will prevent him from fighting Matt Lindland on the forthcoming Affliction: Day of Reckoning card. That’s neither been confirmed or denied by any of the parties involved. The rumor d’jour seems to validate that and is especially interesting …

How about the MMA world pile off of Cro Cop for a bit? A couple of days after his DREAM foil Alistair Overeem called the Croatian striking machine a ‘douchebag’, K-1 kickboxer Mighty Mo calls out Cro Cop in an interview with MMAHawaii. Our advice to Mo? Sign the deal to fight …

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 …