DREAM/Bellator/Sengoku/K1/PRIDE/Other MMA Discussion Thread

[Rush]

pretty much considering not many other people watch anything other than UFC and Strikeforce i'm making this thread for the discussion of all the other MMA promotions, defunct (RIP PRIDE) or otherwise.

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Upcoming Events

World Victory Road Presents: Soul of Fight
Date: Dec 30, 2010
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Ariake Coliseum
Broadcast: HDNet (North America)

MMA fights:

* Marlon Sandro vs. Hatsu Hioki (for featherweight title)
* Kazuo Misaki vs. Mike Seal
* Jadamba Narantungalag vs. Kazunori Yokota
* Yasubey Enomoto vs. Keita Nakamura*
* Manabu Inoue vs. Shunichi Shimizu+
* Taiyo Nakahara vs. Akitoshi Tamura+
* Dave "Pee Wee" Herman vs. Yoshihiro Nakao
* Mika "Hari" Harigai vs. Rin Nakai
* Akihiro Gono vs. TBA
* Maximo Blanco vs. TBA
* Hiroshi Izumi vs. TBA
* Masanori Kanehara vs. TBA
* Kazunori Yokota vs. TBA
* Ronnie Mann vs. TBA^

* - Welterweight grand-prix finale
+ - Asian bantamweight grand-prix semifinals
^ - Not officially announced

 

[PHX]

Seems like good stuff comes on that HDnet but I don't have it

 

[Rush]

yeah i try and stream as much as possible but the problem with japanese mma is they have epic cards which go for so long that i hate watching my computer for like 5 hours + an hour intermission in between.

 

[PHX]

Guess the only thing good about those big ass cards is that the people there should def get their money's worth depending on how much it cost to be there.

 

[Rush]

Updated Card

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Upcoming Events

World Victory Road Presents: Soul of Fight
Date: Dec 30, 2010
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Ariake Coliseum
Broadcast: HDNet (North America)

* Marlon Sandro vs. Hatsu Hioki (for featherweight title)
* Kazuo Misaki vs. Mike Seal
* Masanori Kanehara vs. Yoshiro Maeda
* Maximo Blanco vs. Won Sik Park
* Mamed Khalidov vs. Yuki Sasaki
* Jadamba Narantungalag vs. Kazunori Yokota
* Dave "Pee Wee" Herman vs. Yoshihiro Nakao
* Yasubey Enomoto vs. Keita Nakamura*
* Taiyo Nakahara vs. Akitoshi Tamura+
* Manabu Inoue vs. Shunichi Shimizu+
* Hitomi Akano vs. Roxanne Modafferi
* Amy Davis vs. Misaki Takimoto
* Mika "Hari" Harigai vs. Rin Nakai
* Akihiro Gono vs. TBA
* Hiroshi Izumi vs. TBA

* - Welterweight grand-prix finale
+ - Asian bantamweight grand-prix semifinals

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DREAM "Dynamite!! 2010"
Date: Dec 31, 2010
Location: Saitama, Japan
Venue: Saitama Super Arena
Broadcast: HDNet (North America)

K-1 Kickboxing Bouts:

Gegard Mousasi vs. Kyotaro
Tetsuya Yamato vs. Wicky Nishiura

Hybrid K-1/MMA Bouts:

Shinya Aoki vs. Yuichiro “Jienotsuâ€￾ Nagashima

MMA Bouts:

Alistair Overeem vs. TBD (Dream Heavyweight Title Bout)
Jereome Le Banner vs. Satoshi Ishii
Sergei Kharitonov vs. Tatsuya Mizuno
Hideo Tokoro vs. Kazushisa Watanabe
Hiroshi Izumi vs. Minowaman
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Josh Thomson
Mach Sakurai vs. Jason High
Caol Uno vs. Kazuyuki Miyata
Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Bibiano Fernandes (Dream Featherweight Champion)
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Marius Zaromskis (Dream Welterweight Champion)​

 

[Ben]

Bellator Fighting Championships today announced the promotion's inaugural Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament which will take place in Bellator's much anticipated fourth season. The eight-man 205 lbs. Tournament will start in March, 2011. The eight Light Heavyweights will determine their own destiny in the cage on the road to the first Bellator Light Heavyweight Championship belt and $100,000 to the tournament winner.

An exhaustive search is currently underway to find the best available light heavyweights the MMA world has to offer. With six of the eight fighters already selected, announcements regarding confirmed participants of the 2011 Bellator Light Heavyweight Tournament are anticipated in the coming days.

"We've wanted to add a Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament since Season 1, but wanted to ensure that when we did it, we had a great group fighting for the title. Now, we do," said Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney. "One of the best parts of my job is handing over the Bellator World Title belt to a new champion, and I'll have the pleasure of doing it again this upcoming season."

Not gonna be much in terms of talent there...Light Heavy is pretty much dominated by UFC and SF...and I might be wrong but last time I check they have all of the top 25 ranked fighters at 205 locked up between the 2 of them. The tournament format is nice....but they have have some talent at the other weights and they would of been better off putting a tourney on hold and showcasing those guys to start off there run on MTV2.

 

[Rush]

overeem/duffee for dynamite!! 2010 apparently

 

[Ben]

Supposedly that wanted Lashley to face Reem but he wanted 6 figures...think Duffee is doing it for like 60k....Strikeforce needs to get there shit together and actually make Reem defended his title though.

 

[Rush]

Lashley would get absolutely raped by Overeem. Duffee is still going to get fucked up but he's 1000 times better than Lashley.

 

[Ben]

Just realized I do't have HDNet anymore so can't DVR this....just going to have to download the next day.

 

[Rush]

jesus christ that was a dive. Duffee "ko'd" in 19 seconds. pathetic.

 

[Rush]

Dynamite!! 2010 results. There is a replay later on HDNet i believe.

• Hiroyuki Takaya def. Bibiano Fernandes via unanimous decision to become new DREAM featherweight champion
• Tatsuya Kawajiri def. Josh Thomson via unanimous decision
• Jason High def. Hayato "Mach" Sakurai via split decision
• Tetsuya Yamato and Akiyo "Wicky" Nishiura fight to a majority draw (30-30, 30-29 Yamato, 30-30)@
• Champ Marius Zaromskis def. Kazushi Sakuraba via TKO (doctor's stoppage) - Round 1, 2:16 to retain DREAM welterweight title
• Satoshi Ishii def. Jerome Le Banner via unanimous decision
• Alistair Overeem def. Todd Duffee via knockout (punches) - Round 1, 0:14 to claim DREAM interim heavyweight title
• Yuichiro Nagashima def. Shinya Aoki via knockout (knee) - Round 2, 0:04+
• Gegard Mousasi def. Kyotaro Fujimoto via unanimous decision (30-28, 29-28, 29-28)@
• Sergei Kharitonov def. Tatsuya Mizuno via TKO (strikes) - Round 1, 1:25
• Hiroshi Izumi def. Ikuhisa "Minowaman" Minowa via TKO (punches) - Round 3, 2:50
• Hideo Tokoro def. Kazuhisa Watanabe via submission (armbar) - Round 3, 2:02
• Kazuyuki Miyata def. Caol Uno via unanimous decision
• Andy Ologun def. Katsuaki Furuki via unanimous decision

+ - MMA/K-1 mixed-rules bout
@ - K-1 rules bout

 

[Rush]

WVR: Soul of Fight Results


Main Card:
145 lbs.: Hatsu Hioki def. Marlon Sandro via unanimous decision
185 lbs.: Kazuo Misaki def. Mike Seal via TKO
185 lbs.: Mamed Khalidov def. Yuki Sasaki via TKO
155 lbs.: Jadamba Narantungalag def. Kazunori Yokota via KO
265 lbs.: Dave Herman def. Yoshihiro Nakao via unanimous decision
105 lbs.: Misaki Takimoto def. Amy Davis via split decision
145 lbs.: Rin Nakai def. Mika Harigai via submission
115 lbs.: Megumi Fujii def. Emi Fujino via unanimous decision
185 lbs.: Taisuke Okuno def. Ryo Chonan via KO
Sengoku vs. DREAM
155 lbs.: Maximo Blanco def. Won Sik Park via must decision
145 lbs.: Yoshiro Maeda def. Masanori Kanehara via TKO
Welterweight Grand Prix Final:
170 lbs.: Keita Nakamura def. Yasubey Enomoto via submission
Bantamweight Grand Prix Semifinals:
135 lbs.: Taiyo Nakahara def. Akitoshi Tamura via DQ
135 lbs.: Shunichi Shimizu def. Manabu Inoue via split decision

 

[PHX]

Good lord do they always have cards that big?

 

[Rush]

sometimes. They have cards longer in general than the American promotions but they also run less shows during the year and their end of year shows in Japan (Dynamite!! and the ones run by world victory road sengoku) are huge for Japan. I think Soul of Fight also had a bunch of other kickboxing fights on it as well. was like an all day event.