TOKYO, Japan — MMA Fighting was on location to witness Strikeforce heavyweight champion and K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 champion Alistair Overeem put on a show at his Dynamite!! 2010 media workout under the watchful eye of two-time K-1 MAX Champion Masato at Kazushi Sakuraba‘s Laughter7 Dojo in Ota-ku, Tokyo on Tuesday.
Although his opponent for New Year’s Eve has not yet been made official due to visa issues, Todd Duffee has arrived in Japan and is expected to take on the recently crowned K-1 king for the DREAM heavyweight belt on Dec. 31st.
TOKYO, Japan — MMA Fighting was on location to witness Strikeforce heavyweight champion and K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 champion Alistair Overeem put on a show at his Dynamite!! 2010 media workout under the watchful eye of two-time K-1 MAX Champion Masato at Kazushi Sakuraba‘s Laughter7 Dojo in Ota-ku, Tokyo on Tuesday.
Although his opponent for New Year’s Eve has not yet been made official due to visa issues, Todd Duffee has arrived in Japan and is expected to take on the recently crowned K-1 king for the DREAM heavyweight belt on Dec. 31st.
TOKYO — MMA Fighting was on hand for the highly unusual media workouts of DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki and 2010 K-1 World MAX 2010 70kg Japan Tournament winner Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima, held at the Deep Official Gym and Silver Wolf Gym respectively.
The eccentric lightweights will square off on Dec. 31st at Dynamite!! in a mixed rules fight that will consist of alternating rounds of K-1 and MMA rules and to prepare for the bout the K-1 and DREAM Champions dressed up, sung, dance, slapped, chopped and Nagashima even trained a little bit.
TOKYO — MMA Fighting was on hand for the highly unusual media workouts of DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki and 2010 K-1 World MAX 2010 70kg Japan Tournament winner Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima, held at the Deep Official Gym and Silver Wolf Gym respectively.
The eccentric lightweights will square off on Dec. 31st at Dynamite!! in a mixed rules fight that will consist of alternating rounds of K-1 and MMA rules and to prepare for the bout the K-1 and DREAM Champions dressed up, sung, dance, slapped, chopped and Nagashima even trained a little bit.
Filed under: DREAM, FanHouse Exclusive, JapanLess than two weeks before FEG’s Dynamite!! 2010 show, Alistair Overeem finally knows who he will be facing on the card.
Duffee hinted at fighting Overeem on the Dec. 31 card late Tuesday evening on his Facebook, and since then MMA Fighting has confirmed with multiple sources close to the bout that both parties have officially agreed to the fight. Duffee deleted the status update shortly after posting the news on his Facebook page.
While Overeem, the Strikeforce heavyweight champion, was on hand for a pre-fight press conference in Japan on Wednesday, FEG is only expected to officially announce the fight sometime after Christmas.
Filed under: DREAM, News, JapanOnly days after being KOed by the hands of Singh Jaideep at the K-1 World Grand Prix Finals, Sergei Kharitonov has agreed to fight DREAM light heavyweight GP finalist Tatsuya Mizuno at Dynamite!!, MMA Fighting has learned…
Only days after being KOed by the hands of Singh Jaideep at the K-1 World Grand Prix Finals, Sergei Kharitonov has agreed to fight DREAM light heavyweight GP finalist Tatsuya Mizuno at Dynamite!!, MMA Fighting has learned from sources.
The Dec. 31 bout will be the first MMA fight of the year for Kharitonov. The Russian was once considered one of the top heavyweights in the world but his last mixed martial arts appearance was an unimpressive submission loss to Jeff Monson in April 2009. Kharitonov looked as though he had found some form in K-1, with an impressive win over Takumi Sato in Seoul and a good start against Singh “Heart” Jaideep, but that was put to an end as the Indian found a home for his hands.
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After months of negotiations between Strikeforce and Fedor Emelianenko’s useless management company, the Last Emperor may finally have a return date. According to MMA Weekly, Emelianenko w…
(Oh yeah. The person who made this wallpaper just *gets it*.)
After months of negotiations between Strikeforce and Fedor Emelianenko‘s useless management company, the Last Emperor may finally have a return date. According to MMA Weekly, Emelianenko will face fellow heavyweight contender Antonio Silva at a yet-unannounced January 29th Strikeforce event. It will be Emelianenko’s first fight since his shocking submission loss to Fabricio Werdum in June. Silva also dropped a fight to Werdum last November, but has posted wins over Andrei Arlovski and Mike Kyle since then. Emelianeko is already 1-0 against fighters with acromegaly.
The January 29th event is expected to take place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, and will allegedly feature the return of Herschel Walker, and — get this — the third meeting between Jason Miller and Tim Kennedy, now that the trash talk between Miller and Nick Diaz has officially reached a stalemate, with neither fighter willing to leave their weight class.
But enough about non-freak-show fights. Let’s get to the good stuff…
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As first reported by MMA Junkie, Japanese MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba will return to action on New Year’s Eve at Dynamite!! 2010, where he’l…
As first reported by MMA Junkie, Japanese MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba will return to action on New Year’s Eve at Dynamite!! 2010, where he’ll challenge Marius Zaromskis for DREAM’s welterweight title. Though the 41-year-old vet has generally competed as a middleweight, he’ll be dropping to the lighter division following back-to-back losses against Ralek Gracie and Jason Miller.
The match will also serve as a comeback attempt for Zaromskis, who’s coming off of a disastrous Strikeforce run this year which saw him suffer first-round knockouts against Nick Diaz and Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos, then eye-poke his way into a six-second no-contest against Waachim Spiritwolf last month. Zaromskis went 4-0 under the DREAM banner in 2009, with three of those wins coming via head-kick knockout.
As of now, the only other fights booked for this year’s Dynamite!! card are a featherweight title fight between Bibiano Fernandes and Hiroyuki Takaya, and a lightweight feature between Josh Thomson and Tatsuya Kawajiri. Shinya Aoki, Melvin Manhoef, and Gegard Mousasi are also reported for the event, but their fights haven’t been finalized. But hey, the show’s not for another three weeks. Plenty of time.
Less than two weeks before FEG’s Dynamite!! 2010 show, 
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