Josh Thomson In Japan – Prefight Footage & Postfight Commentary

Former STRIKEFORCE World Lightweight (155 pounds) Champion Josh Thomson is set to collide with fellow superstar Tatsuya Kawajiri at the Dynamite!! 2010 Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) extravaganza at Saitama Super Arena on New Year’s Eve. Thomson makes final preparations, weighs-in, and talks his opponent one day before the fight.
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Former STRIKEFORCE World Lightweight (155 pounds) Champion Josh Thomson is set to collide with fellow superstar Tatsuya Kawajiri at the Dynamite!! 2010 Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) extravaganza at Saitama Super Arena on New Year’s Eve. Thomson makes final preparations, weighs-in, and talks his opponent one day before the fight.

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Josh Thomson’s post fight interview after his loss to Kawajiri.

Dynamite!! 2010 Post-Fight Interviews – “No One Can Take My Knee Strikes,” Alistair Overeem

Post fight interviews from Friday nights Dynamite!! 2010 event are up. We’ve put together all of the interviews that contain English but if you’d like to check them all out visit DREAM’s YouTube page at the link.
Alistair Overeem on winning the DREAM heavyweight title and defeating Todd Duffee.
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Post fight interviews from Friday nights Dynamite!! 2010 event are up. We’ve put together all of the interviews that contain English but if you’d like to check them all out visit DREAM’s YouTube page at the link.

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Alistair Overeem on winning the DREAM heavyweight title and defeating Todd Duffee.

“When I was in the ring, everything goes automatic. Of course you know a little of what your doing, so you prepare a little bit. It goes really fast (the fight) so I didn’t know what it looked like but I saw it on tape. I was very pleased and it was a very effective fight, very effective knee strike and my knees are hard. Nobody can take one of my knee strikes, not in K-1 and also not in MMA.”

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A disappointed Josh Thomson talks about his loss to Tatsuya Kawajiri.

“I felt like I could have done better, I felt like I could have kept my distance and added more striking. The game plan was to keep it on the outside and for some reason, I don’t know why, but I wasn’t doing that.”

More post fight interviews with Todd Duffee, Gegard Mousasi, Jason High, Marius Zaromskis, and Jerome Le Banner after the jump

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Todd Duffee on his loss to Alistair Overeem

“I’m extremely disappointed and I’m a much more talented fighter than I got to show. Not to take anything away from Overeem, I think he’s an incredible, incredible fighter. I was just disappointed, I wanted to come out and put on a great show, an exciting show for the fans. Obviously I wasn’t prepared, I think I trained seven days for this fight and I think it definitely showed.”

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Gegard Mousasi is disappointed with his performance against Kyotaro Fujimoto in their K-1 bout, but he’s still happy with the win beating a “K-1 champion.”

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Marius Zaromskis isn’t sure how to feel after defeating his idol Kazushi Sakuraba to successfully defend his DREAM welterweight title.

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Jason high is happy with his split decision win over Hayato Sakurai.

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Jerome Le Banner was fairly happy with his performance after only a few weeks of training for his fight with Satoshi Ishii. Ishii would take the fight by unanimous decision.

Overeem Claims Third Title With 19 Second Knockout

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Dutch heavyweight Alistair Overeem (34-11) earned his third title Friday night in Japan. He faced former UFC fighter Todd Duffee at the New Year’s Eve Dynamite!! 2010 event for the DREAM interim heavyweight title.
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Dutch heavyweight Alistair Overeem (34-11) earned his third title Friday night in Japan. He faced former UFC fighter Todd Duffee at the New Year’s Eve Dynamite!! 2010 event for the DREAM interim heavyweight title.

It took “The Demolition Man” just 19 seconds to crush his opponent with a knockout punch to the chin in the first round.

Duffee came out swinging, forcing Overeem to cover up but it was the Dutch fighter who landed a knee to the midsection that opened things up. The knee bowled Duffee over letting Overeem capitalize with a couple of powerful strikes as the former UFC fighter left his head exposed. A strong right hand to the side of Duffee’s head left him stunned but a quick left from Overeem put him to the mat finishing the fight at 19 seconds.

“This year I won three world titles. Strikeforce, then K-1, and now Dream. And I promise you all, I’m going to keep giving you great fights.”

Overeem now carries three world titles, laying claim to the Strikeforce heavyweight, K-1 WGP , and the DREAM heavyweight titles.

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Dynamite!! 2010 – Select Bout Videos

The K-1/DREAM year event, Dynamite!! 2010 took place New Year’s Eve in Japan, which translates to early this morning in North America.
The event was scheduled for 15 matches and was carried by HDNet via two hour tape delay in North America from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
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The K-1/DREAM year event, Dynamite!! 2010 took place New Year’s Eve in Japan, which translates to early this morning in North America.

The event was scheduled for 15 matches and was carried by HDNet via two hour tape delay in North America from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

We’ve got some of the more highlight reel bouts here for you to watch if you weren’t able to watch or record the show this past morning.

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Alistair Overeem vs. Todd Duffee

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Shinya Aoki vs. Yuichiro Nagashima

Bouts featuring Sergei Kharitonov vs. Tatsuya Mizuno and Marius Zaromskis vs. Kazushi Sakuraba after the jump

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Sergei Kharitonov vs. Tatsuya Mizuno

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Marius Zaromskis vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

K-1/DREAM ‘Dynamite!! 2010? Quick Results

Friday night in Japan sees the Dynamite!! 2010 New Year’s Eve event taking place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
The show airs on HDNet in North America beginning at 4AM EST (1AM PST) on a two hour tape delay.
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Friday night in Japan sees the Dynamite!! 2010 New Year’s Eve event taking place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

The show airs on HDNet in North America beginning at 4AM EST (1AM PST) on a two hour tape delay.

The MMA News is carrying the LIVE results, so those of you watching the HDNet broadcast may wish to avoid our Quick Results page.

A total of 15 matches were scheduled for the evenings event featuring a mix of DREAM, K-1, and mixed/special rules bouts.

The “IGF Special Rules” bout between Bob Sapp vs. Sinichi Suzukawa was canceled just before the start of the Dynamite!! 2010 event. HDNet broadcaster Michael Shiavello noted that Sapp withdrew from the fight after failing to renegotiate his contract just before the fight.

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DREAM Featherweight Title bout: Bibiano Fernandes vs. Hiroyuki Takaya

DREAM Lightweight bout: Tatsuya Kawajiri def. Josh Thomson via unanimous decision

DREAM bout: Jason High def. Hayato Sakurai via split decision

K-1 Rules bout: Akiyo “Wicky” Nishiura vs. Tetsuya Yamato Majority raw (30-30, 30-30, 30-29)

DREAM Welterweight Title bout: Marius Zaromskis def. Kazushi Sakuraba via TKO (doctor’s stoppage) – R1 @ 2:16 retains DREAM welterweight title (Sakuraba’s right ear was partially torn in the fight forcing the doctor to stop the fight)

DREAM Heavyweight Bout: Satoshi Ishii def. Jerome Le Banner via unanimous decision

DREAM Interim Heavyweight Title bout: Alistair Overeem def. Todd Duffee via KO (punches) – R1 @ 0:14 to become the DREAM interim heavyweight champ

DREAM/K-1 Mixed Rules bout: Yuichiro Nagashima def. Shinya Aoki via knockout (knee) – R2 @ 0:04

K-1 Rules bout: Gegard Mousasi def. Kyotaro Fujimoto via unanimous decision (30-28, 29-28, 29-28)

DREAM Heavyweight bout: Sergei Kharitonov def. Tatsuya Mizuno via TKO (strikes) – R1 @ 1:25

DREAM bout: Hiroshi Izumi def. Ikuhisa “Minowaman” Minowa via TKO (punches) – R3 @ 2:50

DREAM bout: Hideo Tokoro def. Kazuhisa Watanabe via submission (armbar) – R3 @ 2:50

DREAM featherweight bout: Kazuyuki Miyata def. Caol Uno via unanimous decision

DREAM bout: Andy Ologun def. Katsuaki Furuki via unanimous decision

IGF Special Rules bout: Bob Sapp vs. Shinichi Suzukawa (canceled)

Dynamite!! 2010 Predictions

Filed under: DREAM, K1, JapanIt will be hard to top the performance that Hatsu Hioki and Marlon Sandro put on Thursday for the Sengoku featherweight strap, but at Dynamite!! 2010 on New Year’s Eve, Fighting Entertainment Group will try to up the ante w…

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It will be hard to top the performance that Hatsu Hioki and Marlon Sandro put on Thursday for the Sengoku featherweight strap, but at Dynamite!! 2010 on New Year’s Eve, Fighting Entertainment Group will try to up the ante with three DREAM title fights, which includes the likes of Alistair Overeem, Todd Duffee, Marius Zaromskis, Kazushi Sakuraba and more.

What: Dynamite!! 2010

When: Dec. 31 starting at 4 p.m. locally, airing live on HDNet from 4 a.m. ET.

Where: Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan

Beware pre-fight spoilers below.