Here’s a highlight video of Shinya Aoki featuring not only his PRIDE/DREAM fights but a bunch of grappling type stuff as well. Watching Aoki fight always reminds me why I got into the business in the first place.

After this past week us MMA media types could use a good laugh…this video from The Fight Network provided it…

You know if someone makes a Fedor highlight video we’re there:

Aleksander Emelianenko trains with his brother. Some guy name ‘Fedor’. You may have heard of him. Obviously Fedor is a force of nature but its a shame that Aleks can’t get whatever issue that prevents him from fighting in the US resolved–he looks to be in hellacious shape:

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 [...]

One of the funniest fan created MMA videos we’ve ever seen. History has obscured the fact that Adolf Hitler was a big MMA fan and when informed that Dana White couldn’t sign Fedor he went ballistic as this video shows:

Nightmare of Battle is reporting that Sengoku has signed PRIDE/UFC veteran Akihiro Gono. Gono will make his debut at Sengoku IX against an opponent TBA. Gono never really found a niche in the UFC, and he’s best known for his elaborate ring entrances and his ‘DJ Gozma’ alter ego.
They also announced a fight [...]

Via MMAScraps:
Some vintage video footage of Mirko Cro Cop cracking back on Croatian journalists for disrespecting Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. The MMA Scraps post said it was not long after Big Nog submitted Cro Cop which would have been at PRIDE Final Conflict 2003:

via Bloody Elbow:
Hard to add much to their assessment that this is from the ‘out of the blue’ department–Mirko Cro Cop has indicated on his blog that he’ll return to the UFC at UFC 99 in June:
Mirko’s next fight is set for June 13th in Germany, which means that he’s back in the UFC, a [...]

Just posted–SAVSCI Japanese fight sport expert Lyman Hoyt on why Bobby Lashley’s ‘freak show’ fight against Bob Sapp is a brilliant career move for the former WWE superstar:
LASHLEY’S ‘FREAK SHOW’ FIGHT AGAINST SAPP COULD BE A GREAT CAREER MOVE @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE