With this year’s DREAM events receiving lackluster ratings, there were questions about whether or not FEG would hold a NYE DREAM event this year. While it doesn’t look like DREAM.7 will take place come Dec. 31, that doesn’t mean there won’t be an event. FEG held a press conference earlier today in Japan to announce this year’s K-1 DYNAMITE!! 2008 show. The event will feature DREAM fighters in MMA bouts as well as the traditional K-1 kickboxing matches.
No Comments | Filed under: Gesias 'JZ' Calvancante, Joachim Hansen, K-1 DYNAMITE!! 2008, UFC, Yoshihiro AkiyamaDid Gegard Mousasi’s dominant performances throughout the DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix put him on your radar? Want to see more? Here’s Mousasi giving German fighter Steve Mensing an absolute beatdown.
Gegard Mousasi is rumored to be fighting Vitor Belfort at the next Affliction event.
Ryan Hockensmith of ESPN.com believes that Anderson Silva is using the retirement talk as leverage to land bigger pay days in the future.
As I said on MMA Live, I don’t expect him to quit any time soon. Shelf lives are short in MMA. Silva’s on an amazing run (7-0 in the UFC, including a 61-second knockout win), but he needs some big paydays. He’s 33 years old. He’s spent the past eight years in non-stop training and weight-cutting mode (Silva is one of the biggest 185-pounders to ever walk into the Octagon). Now he’s hit it big time as one of the UFC’s top pay-per-view draws. He’s looking to make some money for when he does retire. Can’t blame him for that, and can’t blame him for leveraging the situation a little by dangling the idea of walking away. For his fight at 205 pounds on July 19, Silva earned $200,000. No doubt he’d like to up that amount for the future.
It’s an interesting theory, and certainly one that makes sense. Whatever the reason is, I seriously doubt we’ll see Anderson retire in the next two years.
Cro Cop looks awfully chipper in that video considering how everything went down. Maybe his ball finally dropped. Anyways, the whole video is Croatian, however this article has the gist of what he said, and once again, Betwwx.com was kind enough to translate it for us.
“I’m disappointed with the outcome of the fight, I was immaculately prepared for this fight, but things happen. The third strike to my balls was very strong, but thats part of the sport and the job.”
As we reported yesterday, Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ wants a rematch with Alistair Overeem following the devastating knees that allegedly retracted Cro Cop’s right testicle into his body. Speculation quickly pointed to New Year’s Eve as the date for the potential rematch, and according to Cro Cop, that looks to be the case.
Cro Cop made the comments in another Croatian article that was translated by the fine folks at betwwx.com.
DREAM.6 was supposed to end the beef between Alistair Overeem and Mirko ‘Cro Cop.’ But, as you probably already know, it didn’t when the bout was ruled a no contest due to the knee shots Cro Cop took to the groin. Instead, it appears the animosity between the two has only risen further.
According to this Croatian report, Cro Cop claims he actually wanted to continue. Translation via Bloody Elbow.
With numerous MMA sites reporting that Affliction’s second event has been rescheduled for January 17, and multiple Affliction officials stating Fedor Emelianenko has been confirmed to compete on it, everyone pretty much assumed that Fedor would be skipping his traditional New Year’s Eve fight in Japan this year. However, as we previously reported, Tom Atencio stated late last week that the date for “Day of Reckoning” has not been finalized, and will take place sometime in the first quarter of 2009.
DREAM.6 took place earlier today at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
It was the finals of the DREAM middleweight grand prix. Four fighters—Gegard Mousasi, Melvin Manhoef, Zelg Galesic, and Ronaldo Jacare—battled it out in the semi-finals with the winners coming back at the end of the show to fight for the grand prix championship.
Mirko Cro Cop was back in action for the second time this year. He didn’t get a softball this time around though. Instead, he looked to end months of trash talking from the always dangerous Alistair Overeem.
Shinya Aoki, Hayato ‘Mach’ Sakurai, Yoshihiro Akiyama, and Sergei Kharitonov were also in action.
If you haven’t seen the fights yet, and want to before spoiling yourself with the results, you can check them out here.
Results and wrap-up after the jump.
The DREAM.6 weigh-ins took place earlier today at the East 21 Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
All fighters made weight.
The weigh-in results (in pounds) via MMAJunkie.com:
DREAM.6 will take place tomorrow, Sept. 23, at 3AM ET at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The event will air live on HDNet.
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