Spilled Bag of Fights: Don’t Take That Bullsh*t!

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Jan 032011
 

Happy New Year, kids. And here we are with the very first column of the new year. The pressure, man… the goddamn pressure! So, back last year we had the DREAM: Dynamite!! 2010 card that had about thirty-eight fights. Holy shit, just thinking about it makes me want to take a nap. Granted, most things make me want to take a nap and it may also be the fact that the card started at like 1am and was almost three days long. Luckily, the place I was staying in Vegas had Direct TV and HDNet so, I didn’t have to watch it hunched over a laptop for three days. I didn’t make it through the whole card in one sitting but I did make it to daybreak and I didn’t have to kill anything for food or drink my own urine but it did test my dedication to MMA. Continue reading »

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DREAM: Dynamite!! 2010 Results

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Dec 312010
 

(Photo courtesy of DREAM)

—DREAM openweight bout—

Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Hiroshi Izumi: Izumi via TKO (Punches), Round 3, 2:50

—DREAM featherweight bout—

Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Caol Uno: Miyata via Unanimous Decision

—DREAM featherweight bout—

Hideo Tokoro vs. Kazuhisa Watanabe: Tokoro via Submission (Armbar), Round 3, 2:02

—DREAM Featherweight Championship Bout—

Bibiano Fernandes vs. Hiroyuki Takaya: Takaya via Unanimous Decision*

—DREAM lightweight bout—

Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Josh Thomson: Kawajiri via Unanimous Decision

—DREAM welterweight bout—

Andy Ologun vs. Katsuaki Furuki: Ologun via Unanimous Decision

—DREAM welterweight bout—

Hayato Sakurai vs. Jason High: High via Split Decision

—DREAM Welterweight Championship bout—

Marius Žaromskis vs. Kazushi Sakuraba: Zaromskis via TKO (Doctor Stoppage), Round 1, 2:16**

—DREAM heavyweight bout—

Sergei Kharitonov vs. Tatsuya Mizuno: Kharitonov via KO (Knee), Round 1, 1:25

—DREAM heavyweight bout—

Jérôme Le Banner vs. Satoshi Ishii: Ishii via Unanimous Decision

—DREAM Interim Heavyweight Championship bout—

Alistair Overeem vs. Todd Duffee: Overeem via KO (Knee and Punches), Round 1, 0:19***

—K-1 bout—

Gegard Mousasi vs. Kyotaro Fujimoto: Mousasi via Unanimous Decision

—K-1 MAX bout—

Akiyo Nishiura vs. Tetsuya Yamato: N/A, Majority Draw (30-30, 30-30, 29-30)

—DREAM/K-1 special rules bout—

Shinya Aoki vs. Yuichiro Nagashima: Nagashima via KO (Flying Knee and Punches), Round 2, 0:04

*Hiroyuki Takaya becomes the new DREAM Featherweight Champion.

**Marius Zaromskis retains his title as DREAM Welterweight Champion.

***Alistair Overeem earns the DREAM Interim Heavyweight Championship title.

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“The Punk” Josh Thomson to Compete in NYE DREAM Card; Hopes to Move Up in Strikeforce Lightweight Contender Ranks

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Dec 232010
 

Former Strikeforce Lightweight Champion "The Punk" Josh Thomson takes on Tatsuya Kawajiri at DREAM: Dynamite 2010 in Japan on New Year's Eve. A victory may help springboard him into Strikeforce lightweight title contention. (Photo courtesy of Scott Peterson and MMA Weekly)

Strikeforce lightweight “The Punk” Josh Thomson (17-3-1) not only has one of the coolest nicknames in MMA but also is one of the best lightweight fighters in the world when it comes to putting a hurt on his opponents. Thomson infiltrates the Japanese MMA market once again and puts himself to the test at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama on New Year’s Eve when he faces PRIDE veteran and Shooto fighter Tatsuya Kawajiri (26-5-2) at DREAM: Dynamite 2010.

With that date quickly encroaching many hope to see former Strikeforce Lightweight Champion “The Punk” have a better camp than he did in his contested win over American Top Team graduate “JZ” Gesias Cavalcante (14-3-1) in October where Thomson himself admitted to MMAJunkie.com that “it was the worst camp ever.” He elaborated, “I had ankle injuries. I had a partially torn MCL in my leg and my knee. Obviously I was having hand and wrist problems.” With all those complications, one would wonder why Thomson didn’t forfeit the fight but, to earn a nickname like “The Punk” it would have to take a lot of grit and determination which Thomson displayed in his fight with not only being stitched in his head due to “a headbutt kind of thing”, as Thomson called it, but also getting caught in the arm-in Guillotine Choke of Cavalcante. Continue reading »

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