World Victory Road has announced two confirmed matches plus one competitor in another for their big New Years’ show scheduled for 1/4/09. The two confirmed matches are:
–Takanori Gomi vs. Satoru Kitaoka
–Kazuo Misaki vs. Jorge Santiago
Nice slap in the face to Sergey Golyaev who beat Gomi at Sengoku 6. We get that Gomi is …

While we’re on a Slayer kick, here’s Kerry King and former Megadeth guitarist Mary Friedman jammin’ on some classic metal songs. TV in Japan rules and this clip proves it. It also begs the question “why are there not shows this good on American TV?” Incidentally, Friedman lives in Japan now.:

Several Japanese media sources including the (Tokyo) Daily Sports newspaper are reporting that Takanori Gomi suffered a broken hand in the first round of his loss to Sergey Golyaev at Sengoku 6. While Gomi hasn’t confirmed the exact nature of the injury every indication is that he broke his hand throwing a punch.
No word …

This is from his first Sengoku fight against Travis Wiuff, but you get the idea:

Brock Lesnar is going to be an excellent MMA fighter, but he doesn’t want any part of this guy. He may *think* he does but he doesn’t. It looks like poor Hong Man Choi is seriously questioning his choice of profession during Fedor’s entrance:

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 …

Japan Times (and a number of other media outlets) are reporting this today. We reported it back on October 8th. Do the math:
Judoka Satoshi Ishii, who won the men’s over 100-kg gold medal at this year’s Beijing Olympics, is to quit judo and become a professional mixed martial artist, judo sources said Friday.
The …

Fighters.com has more on the UFC’s ‘negotiations’ with the Russian fighting god:
“Fedor will not sign to the enslaving terms of a UFC contract, and the UFC just doesn’t want to compromise.”
Finkelstein, M-1 Global president and Emelianenko’s manager, was responding Friday to UFC president Dana White’s recent comment to the Boston Herald that “[the UFC’s] door …

Apparently Dana White is still jerking around the best heavyweight in the world, at least according to his manager Vadim Finkelstein as reported by MMA Junkie:
“Randy Couture came back to the UFC and what now?” Finkelstein asked. “Instead of fighting the best in the promotion, he has to fight a young upstart with (a) 2-1 …

One thing we absolutely hate about some of the online MMA media is what Dana White/UFC nuthuggers they are. Here’s a great example, over at SI.com where Patrick Cote gets no respect in an article previewing his fight against Anderson Silva. The article is titled “Cote just the latest victim to be thrown …