FEG announces NYE supershow K-1Max/WGP/DREAM w/15-20 fights
Wow the Japanese Websites that went to the announcement just dropped the info and this absolutely blows away ZUFFA's NYE plans and if Sengoku had any intention of running a NYE show they should can it right now. This plus the earlier rumor that Tim Sylvia has been negotiating with Dream sounds awesome. Tim vs Hong-Man Choi anybody? Heres the details
From Nightmare of Battle:
It was announced earlier today at Akasaka in Tokyo that K-1 Dynamite!! 2008 will be held at the Saitama Super Arena on NYE. FEG President Sadaharu Tanigawa, DREAM event producer Keiichi Sasahara, and someone from TBS were all present.
Tanigawa said that there was an idea in the beginning of separating DREAM and K-1 into two events, but in the end it is was decided that K-1 WGP, K-1 MAX, K-1 Koshien and DREAM will all be on one card. He also said that he thinks that the card will be 15-20 fights long.
They also showed a movie at the press conference with the background music being from Star Wars.
17 fighters, who are all planned to participate, were present at the press conference:
DREAM: Joachim Hansen, Hayato "Mach" Sakurai, Kazushi Sakuraba, Shinya Aoki, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Mitsuhiro Ishida, Masakazu Imanari, Takeshi Yamazaki, Atsushi Yamamoto, Kuniyoshi Hironaka, Minowaman, Kiyoshi Tamura, Seichi Ikemoto (DEEP WW Champ), and Yuichi Nakanishi (DEEP MWGP Winner)
K-1 WGP: Musashi
K-1 MAX: Yasuhiro Kido and Yoshihiro Sato
Yoshihiro Sato proposed another fight with Masato, Aoki asked Akiyama if he would accept his challenge, and Sakuraba asked Yoshida if he would give him a fight.
Update: Besides the fighters present, Masato, Norifumi "KID" Yamamoto, Caol Uno, Hideo Tokoro, Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuyori Shibata, Junich Sawayashiki, Taishin Kohiruimaki, Mirko CroCop, Gegard Mousasi and Choi Hong Man were announced as participation candidates.
Japan-MMA.com is reporting that Badr Hari is also likely and FEG is still negotiating with Fedor. (Skwirrl opinion - M-1 and Affliction said it is Ironclad Fedor will not fight on NYE but I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up to hand out challenge flowers to the winner of a fight or something similar)
I tried to include the images from Japan-mma.com of the conference but I guess I don't know what coding to use for this website - sorry
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Wandy Jackson 3 is all great. But Evans vs Griffen is 2 guys that got lucky and Mir is not even in the same league as Nog. That event really sucks IMO
Mir that lost to Vera?
Or Evans hitting Liddell with his eyes closed and Forrest scoring a BS decision (thats my opinion) over Page?
Pretty much everything you’ve said since you joined this site.
by Richard Wade on Oct 19, 2008 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm also guessing that you've never seen
Yoshi Sato vs Masato I or ever seen a bunch of the other undercard guys

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