Dynamite!! 2009! Press Conference Has Arrived Part 3

Shinya Aoki was a little cocky at today’s press conference. When asked about who he wants to fight he said: “Who’s the current champion of SENGOKU? I don’t know.”

He also said that if the promoters tell him to fight, he’ll think about it.

When asked to comment on the message Aoki just sent him, Hirota said: “My frank thoughts are that it made me feel sick (it can also mean feel irritated/offended).”

Hirota once again said that he wants to KO Alvarez on NYE, he thinks that fight would be more exciting. He ended his comment with: “My impression of Aoki? He’s a fighter with long arms and legs.”

FEG’s Tanigawa said that he himself proposed this union event. They started discussing since the end of October. He also said that he doesn’t know what will happen with the FieLDS sponsorship next year.

The WVR GM said that the current plan for the next SRC event is March. The fighters participating will be the fighters who have fought there until now.

Sasahara said that there will be 18-19 fights on NYE, and there will also be fights between DREAM fighters so it’s not only SENGOKU vs. DREAM on the MMA side. Kawajiri and KID couldn’t attend the press conference because they were out on other business.

About SENGOKU only fights (besides Ishii vs. Yoshida) the WVR GM said that it’s yet to be decided if there will be any.

Misaki’s participation is also yet to be decided. There will be a meeting about if his suspension will be lifted or not. Misaki himself said: “I want to obey the instruction of the SENGOKU side.”

There will be foreign fighters competing as well, but the Japanese fighters will be the focus.

Tanigawa wants to match the champions with each other. The rules might depend on the fight.

About a future merger, Tanigawa said that Dynamite!! is mainly TBS’s event so there’s nothing like that.

The plan is for a double main event but Masato’s fight will probably be last since they’ll have a retirement ceremony after the fight. The event will start at 3 PM.

About K-1 fights besides Masato’s retirement fight and the Koshien finals Tanigawa said that there might be. It depends on what happens on December 5th.

Dynamite!! 2009! Press Conference Has Arrived Part 2

NYE 2009: DREAM Vs. SRC - Kamipro.com

Time to get information from the big sites (GBRing.com, Sportsnavi.com, and Kamipro.com) reporting this and who get to ask questions. Most information usually come from these post-press conference Q&A’s.

Satoshi Ishii wasn’t present since he is currently training in Las Vegas. The plan is 7 DREAM Vs. SRC fights. The fights will be announced one of these days. Yoshida said that he hasn’t heard who he’s fighting in this event yet, implying that his fight with Ishii isn’t officially announced yet. Tanigawa said consider what direction we’ll take at the press conference.

However, after the press conference Tanigawa said that they’ll do Yoshida vs. Ishii. That fight and Masato’s retirement fight will be a double main event.

“Mach” didn’t know about any of this since he hasn’t been on the Internet lately. In his comment he said that he’s hungry since he woke up at 12 PM and hasn’t had breakfast yet. The press confernce was moved back 20 minutes because he was late.

Shibata is excited about fighting a SENGOKU fighter, mentioning that there are a lot of Judo medalists there. He wants to fight someone outside of his weight class and he’ll beat him up.

Dynamite!! 2009! Press Conference Has Arrived

The press conference has started. The trailer is currently being played.

Sasahara and Tanigawa present.

Tanigawa announced that they will hold the event together with SENGOKU on NYE.

Announcement of Ishii vs. Yoshida and DREAM vs. SENGOKU fights as well. The full card is currently being worked on.

Japan Martial Arts Federation president Fukuda has entered.

The World Victory Road general manager as well.

The DREAM army is entering the stage.

Kazushi Sakuraba, Hayato “Mach” Sakurai, Katsuyori Shibata, Hideo Tokoro, Hiroyuki Takaya, and Shinya Aoki from DREAM and Kazushisa Watanabe from K-1.

The SENGOKU army entering the stage.

Hidehiko Yoshida, Kazuo Misaki, Hiroshi Izumi, Sanae Kikuta, Akihiro Gono, Kazunori Yokota, Mizuto Hirota, Masanori Kanehara, Eiji Mitsuoka, and Yoshihiro “KISS” Nakao.

Both Watanabe and Tokoro said that they want to fight KID.

Sakuraba with a mask on: “Hi, I’m Hikari Shinji (a character from Evangelion). Please put me against KID who’s in the same weight class as me.”

Nakao asks Tanigawa for Mirko. Gono hinted at Sakurai.

Hirota wants to fight Alvarez. “Don’t you want to see Alvarez get KO’d?”

Yoshida apologized to everyone who was preparing for the Ariake event and asked all fighters present to fight their hearts out on NYE.

Video message from Ishii: “Please be gentle on NYE, Yoshida.”

Sasahara said that rules, the fights, the weight of the fights, etc. are currently being discussed. The only thing certain is that KID won’t fight Sakuraba.

WVR GM said that SENGOKU is planned continue from next year as well. Though I wouldn’t believe what most people say about this right now.

FieLDS Dynamite!! ～The Power Of Courage 2009～
Date: December 31st, 2009
Place: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan

K-1 MAX Fight (5×3 minutes, 1×3 ext.):
Masato vs. Andy Souwer

Super Hulk Tournament Final:
Minowaman vs. Sokoudjou

The Time Has Finally Come! November 25th, 13:30

FEG will hold a press conference tomorrow at 13:30 with a few of the sources being user Rictor, photographer Dan Herbertson, and SRC fighter Eiji Mitsuoka writing on his blog that there will be a press conference tomorrow.

The Truth?! Don Quijote Buying FEG’s MMA Branch?

There’s a new article on cyzo.com touching on what might be the truth of this whole FEG/WVR thing that’s been going on.

According to the article (which doesn’t say that this is 100% true but it’s from people involved) as SENGOKU didn’t get a TV deal (plus their bad attendance), things were getting tough, so Don Quijote’s Yasuda arranged some very secret meetings with FEG President Tanigawa to discuss a union angle which would excite MMA fans.

FEG were however originally not going to agree to this and just leave SENGOKU be until a possible death and then maybe try to sign Ishii.

However, talks came up that FEG’s sponsor, pachinko manufacturer FieLDS, will not renew their contract next year (I think the pachinko industry is doing really bad right now so FieLDS itself might be in a lot of trouble).

The article states that currently there is not just discussion about Don Quijote becoming a sponsor of FEG’s MMA branch, but buying it. The article also goes on about how things are currently difficult for K-1 as well.

Source: NHBNews PRO

ZST.22! Kotani Chokes Out Nakamura

Kotani left Nakamura face down - GBRing.com

ZST.22 took place today in Japan and it consisted of some very interesting fights.

In the main event of the evening Naoyuki Kotani choked Daisuke Nakamura out cold by a rare scissor leg choke/yano submission (don’t know the official name) after only 1 minute and 37 seconds into the first round.

Kotani was very happy after the victory and appealed for a NYE participation, saying to contact him if anything comes up.

In the semi main event Nobutatsu Suzuki continued being undefeated and kept his KO/TKO win only streak as he KO’d Osami Shibuya by a knee at the end of the second round. Suzuki now has his eyes set on the major leagues.

The grappling tag team match between SRC Featherweight champion Masanori Kanehara/Baret Yoshida and Takumi Yano/”Original Super High School Student” Tetsuya Yamada ended in an automatic draw after 15 minutes.

In other relevant fights, Kenichi Ito, who called out Hideo Tokoro for NYE after the fight, defeated Masayuki Okude via TKO (cut) in the first round and Hiroshi “Iron” Nakamura continued his winning streak as he defeated Wataru Inatsu by submission.

Dynamite!! Special Program! Big Surprise

There’s currently a Dynamite!! special program airing on TBS and while I missed a little of the beginning, there was just footage of Ishii and Yoshida. I’ll update if there’s anything more on the program.

Also, a report on Daily Sports about SRC and DREAM/K-1 (not official, just the talk from official people) holding an event together on NYE is currently on the front/top page of Yahoo! Japan.

Update: Now they’re showing footage of Ishii’s Olympic win and his conversion to MMA.

Update #2: Also of Yoshida’s MMA turn, showing footage of his first match against Royce.

When they introduced SENGOKU they said an organization which Hidehiko Yoshida, former UFC champion Josh Barnett, and Satoshi Ishii are attached to.

Update #3: They also introduced the Tokyo Sports article (the newspaper on the first post I wrote about the SRC/Dynamite!! thing) with the text: “Will Ishii vs. Yoshida happen at Dynamite!!?” (as if they would show footage if it wasn’t sure).

Update #4: That was all, half of the program was Naito/Kameda hype. I thought there would be something more but I guess they won’t reveal much until a press conference.

DEEP CAGE IMPACT! Atsushi Vs. Miyashita

KICK☆ - GBRing.com

Some solid fights were added to DEEP CAGE IMPACT on December 19th yesterday.

Atsushi Yamamoto will return after his tough victory at the DEEP&CMA Thanksgiving event to take on Tomoya Miyashita, who was very impressive against ZST Bantamweight champion Keisuke Fujiwara in the white cage.

DREAM participant Takeshi Yamazaki’s opponent will be Toshiaki Kitada who is on a nice 3-fight submission winning streak.

Former Lightweight Koichiro Matsumoto will take on the overmatched Isamu Sugiuchi.

Also added to the card, comedian KICK☆ will make his pro debut. His fight will be under kickboxing rules.

DEEP CAGE IMPACT
Date: December 19th, 2009
Place: Differ Ariake in Tokyo, Japan

Masakazu Imanari vs. Justin “The Shocker” Cruz
Yusuke Kawaguchi vs. Roque Martinez
Nobuhiro Obiya vs. ISE
Atsushi Yamamoto vs. Tomoya Miyashita
Ryuta Sakurai vs. HIROKI
Takeshi Yamazaki vs. Toshiaki Kitada
Koichiro Matsumoto vs. Isamu Sugiuchi
Eiji Ishikawa vs. Yoshitomo Watanabe
Bernard Ackah vs. Shunji Kosaka
Naoki Matsushita vs. Yuki Ito
Atsuhiro Tsuboi vs. Sadao Kondo
Hirohide Fujinuma vs. Makoto/Akira
Teruhiko Kubo vs. Kenta Takagi
Hiryu Okamoto vs. Kaiji Hirano
Yasuhiro Kawasaki vs. Mitsuru “Mike” Yamaguchi

Planned Participants:
KICK☆, Yasuhiro Motomura, Male Animal

DREAM Vs. SRC! Tanigawa Speaks

There are some bits of FEG President Tanigawa’s Kamipro interview up on the internet.

He says that they can do various things, but he himself wants a DREAM vs. SRC showdown, somewhere from 5 vs. 5 to 7 vs. 7. Besides Masato/Souwer, Ishii/Yoshida, K-1 Koshien, and superfights he wants all fights to be DREAM vs. SRC.

Tanigawa was also asked about the previous rumor of a dual broadcast (two events at different locations aired on the same program) of the events on TBS. He said that sponsors and stuff like that was too big of a hurdle. The same sponsors couldn’t be on the ring of the Dynamite!! and SRC 12 events, which would be a problem.

When asked if SENGOKU will continue on after NYE, Tanigawa said “of course it will”. They’ll probably discuss it after NYE, but he wants to hold showdown cards between the two organizations at fixed intervals from now on.

Tanigawa said that there won’t be a DREAM+SRC merger organization after this. He rather want both of them to grow more powerful and at times join to hold events as stated above.

Source: MMA Ironman

Announcement Before The 21st?! Announcement Today?

On the latest issues of Kakutougi Tsushin and Gong Kakutougi, FEG’s Tanigawa says that him and Don Quijote’s Yasuda have finally come to an agreement after working out details and conditions since the beginning of November. Since there have been so many things to discuss and regulate, an announcement has been pushed back.

Tanigawa says that they’re supposed to hold a press conference for the announcement before the Kakutougi Tsushin issue will start to be sold (tomorrow, the 21st), however the potentiality that the dream ends also exists.

About 1 hour ago from K1_Kuma’s twitter: “Today, an announcement.”

Update: lol, Kuma’s announcement: http://tw.k-1official.com/

Source: Kakutolog