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 [...]

That would be the original ‘Tiger Mask’ and founder of Shooto Satoru Sayama for those of you scoring at home:

Not much to the story, but here’s a picture of Keiji Mutoh aka ‘The Great Muta’ paying his media respects to the late Mitsuharu Misawa:

The name alone would qualify Tokyo’s ‘Brainbuster Sports Bar’ as the best in the world. Their focus on fight sports makes it even better.

Brainbuster Sports Bar Tokyo (in Japanese)

Nikkan Sports is reporting that Japan’s judo gold medalist and newly minted Sengoku MMA fighter Satoshi Ishii will be training at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. He’s recovering well from surgery to repair a minor hernia and expect to resumes training hardcore soon. There has been some concern in the Japanese fight sport [...]

The essential Japanese MMA blog Nightmare of Battle is reporting that Strikeforce may have the inside track toward signing Takanori Gomi. Affliction’s Tom Atencio indicated in a postfight interview after ‘Ultimate Chaos’ that his organization was close to signing Gomi, but that may not be the case:
From Gomi’s latest interview in MMA magazine Kamipro [...]

Sengoku is doing their own version of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ called the ‘Sengoku Gold Rush Project’. The lightweight fights aired yesterday in Japan, and the always excellent Japan MMA blog Nightmare of Battle has them linked. Here’s part 1, and you can get the rest by visiting the link underneath:

SENGOKU GOLD RUSH PROJECT [...]

Just posted–our recap of tonight’s ‘Ultimate Chaos’ event headlined by Bobby Lashley’s brutalization of Bob Sapp:
BEASTMASTER: LASHLEY SMASHES SAPP @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE

This is too cool. More pics and the story at the Japanese culture blog Shibuya246:

The perspective shots showing how big the robot is are unreal.
Gundam Odaiba @ Shibuya246