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Fedor Returns to Japan With Demolition of Ishii while Dream Provides Plenty of Variety On New Year’s Eve

Posted in Boxing classes | January 5th, 2012

The apparition couldn’t have been better.

It had been 4 years to a day given Fedor Emelianenko’s final quarrel in Japan. He done his lapse during Dream’s Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011 looking like a Fedor of aged while going by a warrior that was guaranteed to make him demeanour that good.

Experience doesn’t indispensably meant all in a quarrel game, though in many cases it can be a final cause in a fight’s result. This was a box with Fedor/Ishii. Satoshi Ishii has been fighting for accurately dual years and while he has shown improvements and positives in his latest fights, it usually wasn’t possibly to trust that he, Olympic bullion award or not, was going to be means to flog Fedor on this night. Fedor immediately asserted his will with leg kicks and churned punches, many of them landing. Ishii seemed impressed fast and when Fedor landed his final combination, during 2:29 into a fight, Ishii didn’t make any try to get up.

The win gives Fedor dual wins in a final 6 weeks of 2011, semi-erasing a three-fight losing strain that finished with him cut from Strikeforce progressing this year. It usually semi-erases that strain given that strain was opposite a aloft distance of competition than his new dual wins have been. Ishii is still a work in swell and Monson (who Fedor flog in Russia Nov 20) didn’t possess a station diversion to keep adult with Fedor if their quarrel became a station one; it did and Fedor dominated things.

If Fedor stays in Dream, he will be behind in a place where he is one of a many famous and worshiped churned martial-artists in a nation and treated like a fable that he is. However, that would also meant he would be fighting in a weight multiplication who’s talent pool in Dream is roughly non-existent. Fedor’s fights could afterwards finish adult holding on a aura that Mike Tyson’s fights in a after partial of his career took on: nostalgia acts in glitzy jacket that are promoted as being much, many some-more than they indeed are, though done money. If a Fedor run by some tomato cans equals income for Dream, they will do it given they need some kind of spark. No doubt FEG is anticipating that Fedor’s appearance behind in Japan can yield it.

Shinya Aoki done his second successful invulnerability of Dream’s lightweight pretension with a unanimous preference win over former World Victory Road lightweight champion Satoru Kitaoka. Aoki dominated things with his belligerent diversion while never permitting Kitaoka to benefit any form of movement when a quarrel wasn’t on a mat.

Hiroyuki Takaya successfully shielded Dream’s featherweight pretension with a unanimous preference win over churned time Shooto lightweight (143-lbs.) champion Takeshi Inoue . The win was Takaya’s second successful invulnerability given being done Dream’s initial featherweight champion when they determined bantamweight and featherweight groups (mentioned earlier) after his win on this date one year ago. Takaya’s five-round prevalence was some-more well-rounded than Aoki’s, and copiousness effective.

A 365-day tour for Bibiano Fernandes finished accurately where it started. In usually 81 seconds, Fernandes was means to stop Antonio Banuelos and win Dream’s Bantamweight Grand Prix and spin a promotion’s initial bantamweight champion in a process.

The tour began final New Year’s Eve when Fernandes mislaid a promotion’s featherweight pretension to Hiroyuki Takaya. Fernandes had won a argumentative apart preference over Takaya progressing in a year and this was Takaya’s revenge, and Fernandes’ initial detriment in over 3 years. Starting in 2011, Dream was going to settle apart bantamweight (134-lbs.) and featherweight (145-lbs.) groups instead of usually carrying a 139-pound division. The fighters were indeed given a choice as to that multiplication they wanted to quarrel in; Takaya would spin Dream’s featherweight champion and Fernandes would pierce to Bantamweight. The choice of champion Takaya to pierce to featherweight meant that Dream would have a bantamweight contest in 2011 to climax their initial champion, culminating on New Year’s Eve. The contest began during Dream 17 in Sep to emanate a final 4 that would confirm a new champion to finish 2011. Fernandes breezed by his initial spin fight, choking out Takafumi Otsuka in forty-one seconds.

That mastery would continue for Fernandes after Banuelos inexplicably stumbled to a pad early on. Fernandes pounced and didn’t let up. Banuelos didn’t see it entrance and couldn’t put adult any kind of invulnerability before a quarrel was stopped.

Both group got to a final around preference wins progressing in a night. Banuelos outlasted Masakazu Imanari to a apart preference win while Fernandes’ preference win over Rodolfo Marques Deniz was unanimous.

In a tournament’s haven bout, and a show’s opener, Yusup Saadulaev scored a discerning win over Hideo Tokoro interjection to a charging start from Tokoro backfiring instantly. While it has been a product of several noted drifting knee knockouts, this proceed of charging during your competition (and maybe throwing a drifting knee) has some-more mostly resulted in discerning knockouts on a male charging or some really early and nonessential punishment dished out to a same man. Tokoro charged during a impulse a quarrel started, went for a drifting knee, didn’t get it, and got wrapped adult Saadulaev. Both group got to their feet while Saadulaev confirmed a hold on Tokoro’s body. He afterwards executed a tough impact with Tokoro’s conduct attack a pad first, knocking him out. Saadulaev landed a few strikes after, though that was usually given arbitrate Moritaka Oshiro didn’t seem to trust Tokoro was knocked out instantly.

For a second year in a row, K-1′s New Year’s Eve uncover had a special manners quarrel featuring Yuichiro Nagashima. Nagashima has gained a cult following in Japan due to his appearance in K-1 kickboxing as good as pro wrestling, along with his anime themed entrances.

The hitch was dual rounds with a initial spin being 3 mins underneath K-1′s kickboxing manners and a second spin being 5 mins underneath Dream’s MMA rules.

Last year’s hitch saw Nagashima hit Shinya Aoki out cold with a knee usually seconds into a second spin as Aoki went for a takedown. This year was opposite as Nagashima came into a quarrel with a poignant distance advantage essentially due to his impasse in pro wrestling for many of this year. It wouldn’t be a vital cause in a fight.

Nagashima’s opponent, Katsunori Kikuno was all too peaceful to make a kickboxing spin a full on brawl. Nagashima obliged, though would bewail a decision. Kikuno sent Nagashima to a board with a tough right reduction than a notation into a bout. He would continue to browbeat and scarcely finish Nagashima for a improved partial of dual minutes. Then, with usually over 30 seconds to go in a round, a left offshoot from Nagashima evened a knockdown count during 1 to 1. It was apparent from a commencement of spin dual that Kikuno was some-more during palliate when a quarrel switched to MMA rules. Nagashima wasn’t totally a fish out of water, though his faith on a drifting knee did uncover himself to be during a large waste with a present change to manners and time of a round. When Kikuno was means to hang adult and take down Nagashima, he proceeded to get Nagashima’s behind and force a stop with a continual upsurge of strikes around half approach by a second round.

Two Japan vs. Japan fights were frigid opposites in that one quarrel was done adult of dual group informed to comparison MMA fans in Japan, and a other was done adult of dual group informed to new MMA fans in Japan.

The elder statesmen were represented by Hayato “Mach” Sakurai and Ryo Chonan, fighting in a rematch from 8 years ago. On that night in Sep 2003 Chonan was a hero interjection to a alloy stoppage. On this night it was Sakurai’s turn, winning by unanimous decision.

Two of a many informed names to Dram given a pregnancy in 2008 have been Tatsuya Kawajiri and Kazuyuki Miyata. Both group came into their quarrel wanting a win to assistance them miscarry from setbacks: Miyata mislaid his shot during Takaya’s featherweight pretension in Jul while Kawajiri was brutalized by Gilbert Melendez when he challenged for Melendez’s lightweight pretension in Strikeforce progressing this year. It would be Kawajiri’s night as he was means to hang adult Miyata divided from a ropes and contention him around an arm triangle-choke with usually 6 seconds to go in spin two.

Woman’s MMA was represented proudly during a uncover as Japanese phenom Megumi Fujii got to flex her skills with a discerning acquiescence win over Karla Benitez. “Mega Megu” changed to 25-1 with a win, an armbar acquiescence during 1:25 into spin one, and is still arguably a best pound-for-pound woman’s warrior on a planet.

As has always been a case, a uncover featured a few kickboxing matches, this year they were dual K-1 MAX fights.

The initial saw Yuta Kubo extend his winning strain to 8 with a third spin knockout of Nils Wildlund in a sincerely rival fight. The finish came when a good placed left high flog from Kubo confused Widlund, and a knee sent him to a board not to even make an try to flog a count by this point. Widlund was fighting on 10 days notice.

In a second, it was a conflict of youngsters (another New Year’s Eve tradition with K-1) as Masaaki Noiri (age 18) took on Kengo Sonoda (age 20). The dual fighters brought with them a annals of reduction than gifted fighters: Noiri entered a quarrel 6-2, Sonoda entered a quarrel 3-2. Noiri won a unanimous preference feat in a quarrel that featured copiousness of activity from both.

The uncover even featured pro wrestling with MMA or K-1 fighters concerned in all matches. These matches were promoted by Antonio Inoki’s IGF promotion, that customarily employs churned martial-arts fighters for pro wrestling matches. The promotion’s character is a brew of American-style pro wrestling and shoot-style pro wrestling, as a wrestlers and matches themselves tend to mix a two. On this night a MMA impasse wasn’t but reason as Kazuyuki Fujita and Josh Barnett now combat for IGF, and Kazushi Sakuraba Katsuyori Shibata are MMA fighters with pro wrestling knowledge in during slightest one vital Japanese pro wrestling promotion. There were 4 pro wrestling matches, with one (LeBanner/Sylvia) done during a final minute. Fujita faced K-1 warrior Peter Aerts, Barnett faced pro wrestler Hideki Suzuki, Sakuraba Shibata faced IGF projects Atsushi Sawada Shinitchi Suzukawa in a tag-team match, and LeBanner faced former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia. The final compare was done due to work visa issues causing a designed MMA quarrel between Sylvia and Brett Rogers to be canceled. Results: Barnett flog Suzuki, Fujita flog Aerts, Sakuraba submitted Sawada, and LeBanner flog Sylvia. Note: this wasn’t Sylvia’s initial pro wrestling compare as he and Barnett had a discerning one on an IGF uncover final year.