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Report: Satoshi Ishii Suffered Cerebral Edema Against Fedor Emelianenko, MMA Career May Be Over
Fading Russian MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko beat Satoshi Ishii by TKO in the first round at the Dream New Year 2011 event. According to reports coming out of Japan, Fedor did more than finish Ishii in that one fight, he may have ended his MMA career. Fight Opinion has the details: Japanese weekly...
Tim Sylvia, Josh Barnett Returning To Pro Wrestling On New Year's Eve
While his DREAM date with Brett Rogers was canceled due to a visa issue, Tim Sylvia has found work on New Year's Eve after all as he's been booked for a pro wrestling match with Jerome Le Banner, reported by Heavy MMA. The bout will be part of the Inoki Genome Federation's contribution to the DREAM...
Doo Ho Choi Knocks Out Mitsuhiro Ishida at DEEP 56
Mitsuhiro Ishida spent a significant amount of time in his career as a very tough out in the lightweight division. He's one of only two men to score a victory over current Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez and has fought in Strikeforce, DREAM, PRIDE, Shooto and DEEP. His career...
Josh Barnett, Bobby Lashley Return To Pro Wrestling At Japanese Event
It wasn't in the Strikeforce cage, but former UFC Heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett returned to action Friday in Tokyo, Japan, competing in a pro wrestling match against former K-1 star Jerome Le Banner. In the main event at Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2011 in front of almost 8700, Le Banner won the match by...
UFC Confirms Suspicions, Gives Japan the Cold Shoulder
UFC President Dana White has talked consistently over the years about how the UFC will remain progressive in its approach to gaining popularity worldwide. The promotion has made huge strides to expand internationally, transcending cultural boundaries that other sports like football, baseball, and...
Japanese MMA Is Back! Dream Bantamweight GP Starts May 29th
Awesome news out of Tokyo today. Nightmare of Battle is reporting that the rumored Japan Cup that was scheduled for late April now has the Dream name attached to it, a bigger venue, and some really good fights. A press conference officially unveiled that "DREAM Japan GP ~2011 Bantamweight Japan...
Dream Planning May Bantamweight Tournament in Japan
Most observers of the Japanese scene had given up FEG -- the parent company of K-1 kickboxing and Dream MMA -- up for dead. The last reports out of Japan had written FEG off for dead because their knight-in-shining-armor investor Puji had pulled out, their production partner Real Entertainment (the...
Riki Fukuda: Can the DEEP Champion Redeem Japanese MMA at UFC 127?
It is no secret that Japanese fighters have struggled terribly as of late in the UFC. In fact, through the first two months of 2011, all three Japanese fighters to compete in the UFC this year have been decisively beaten by their opponents. The last Japanese fighter to win a UFC bout? Yushin Okami,...
Monday Morning Head Kicks: February 21st to 27th
Banner image provided by Anton Tabuena Monday Morning, time for your Head Kicks. It actually ended up being a much busier week than I realized it would be last Monday when first getting my bearings on everything coming up. A whole lot of notable mixed martial arts action this weekend, and not a...
The Mystery Behind the UFC's Goals in Japan
On Sunday morning, MMAFighting.com's Dan Herbertson broke news that former PRIDE FC President Nobuyuki Sakakibara, a man tainted by yakuza mafia ties that eventually sunk PRIDE, was planning on stepping back into the sport of mixed martial arts to promote a small event in the spring with DREAM head...
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