Better Late Than Never! NYE Is Becoming The Day Of Controversy

The Events

Roman Zentsov vs. Mike Russow
Luiz Azeredo vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri
Hayato Sakurai vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa
Murilo Bustamante vs. Makoto Takimoto
Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Gilbert Melendez
Shinya Aoki vs. Jung Bukyung
Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kazuo Misaki
Emelianenko Fedor vs. Hong Man Choi

Takashi Tachikawa vs. Yoshihisa Inoue
HIROYA vs. Kizaemon Saiga
Kenji Kubo vs. Yudai
U-18 Tournament Final
Nicholas Pettas vs. Young Hyun Kim
Musashi vs. Bernard Ackah
Masato vs. Yong Soo Choi
Melvin Manhoef vs. Yousuke Nishijima
Minowaman vs. Zulu
Joachim Hansen vs. Kazuyuki Miyata
Hideo Tokoro vs. Kiyoshi Tamura
Bobb Sapp vs. Bobby Ologun
Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Rani Yahya
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Masakatsu Funaki

Best fights of the night: Takimoto vs. Bustamante, Ishida vs. Melendez, Yamamoto vs. Yahya and Akiyama vs. Misaki

Best performances of the night: Ishida, Takimoto and Jung Bukyung

The Aftermath

Shinya Aoki vs. J.Z. Calvan might take place in March.

Akiyama might be out with injuries until March.

Tanigawa wants Akiyama vs. Misaki II sometime around June in Korea.

Akiyama and his people have protested on a possible soccer kick that Misaki used to end the fight, soccer kicks were illegal according to the Yarennoka! rules. I have seen some pictures of it and on some it looks like his hands are still on the ground but in some it doesn’t look that way.