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Assuming this translation is accurate, Shinya Aoki sends quite the message to Dana White and the UFC in the video above. I love Japanese MMA, but Aoki might want to check out these ratings, and realize Japan is no longer the mecca of mixed martial arts.

Aoki also proclaimed following his victory over Eddie Alvarez that he wants to fight BJ Penn. Don’t get your hopes up though, because he’s not willing to come to the UFC to do it.

“Personally, the most decisive fight in the world, the culmination, the pinnacle for me is B.J. Penn. Please do not misunderstand — I really need this to be clearly expressed in the media: Shinya Aoki will not go to the UFC. I just want to fight B.J. Penn. This is my selfish wish. I know that everyone says they want Penn, but I think I’m the number one Japanese fighter to be saying this.”

CR: Bloody Elbow

Fields Dynamite!! 2008 Opening Ceremony

Fights after the jump. I’ll add more if they become available.

Image courtesy of Japan-MMA

The short answer is I don’t know, and from what I can tell, neither does anyone else.

Fightlinker has a post with all the details on why this is a giant clusterfuck, possible times to watch, etc.

By now you might have heard that K1 fucked up hardcore in sorting out a way for people to watch their event. The show starts at 3pm in Japan (11pm EST), but isn’t being broadcast anywhere until 7pm (3AM EST) in condensed format. Those who want to watch the show in it’s full format need access to SkyPerfectTV, which will air the event in an 8 hour format at midnight (8AM EST). Of course, none of this is any good for you if you don’t live in Japan or have access to some impressive satelite service. HDNet isn’t covering the event, and the only official source for people wanting to stream this event over the net has bowed out due to ’satellite issues’.

Basically, there’s two options, and neither are necessarily the right way to do it, but FEG isn’t giving us much of a choice. You do want us to watch the event, right Japan? Anyways, it looks like on the other side of the world the event will be broadcast tomorrow morning at 3AM ET (condensed) and 8AM ET (full) (neither live), so you can try and find a stream somewhere on the internet at those times. Otherwise, the only other option will be to find flash videos of the individual fights. I haven’t decided if I’m going to post them here or not yet, but at the very least, I’ll reconfigure the news ticker on the right sidebar of our homepage to display links to the videos (if available).

As for our coverage, I’m going to avoid any and all MMA news sites until I’ve seen all the fights so I don’t get spoiled. Sorry, but I’m a fan too. Basically, that means there won’t be any other posts tomorrow until I’ve finished watching Dynamite!!. Don’t be afraid to stop by at any time though. I promise there will NOT be any spoilers on our homepage tomorrow once I’ve seen it, including the news ticker (I’ll restore to current form on Thursday), but I will post results, thoughts, and possibly the fights on the other side of the jump, much like I do for all the UFC events.

If anyone has any other ideas, suggestions, or info, please drop us a line in the comments below.

Enjoy the fights, in whatever ridiculous way you have to watch them in!

Update: Fightlinker found a solution for those willing to watch at 5AM ET.

Update II: Fields Dynamite!! 2008 fight videos

PRESS RELEASE:

DYNAMITE!! 2008 Pre-Event Fighter Interviews

TOKYO, December 29, 2008 — Around the world, New Year’s Eve means wild parties and midnight countdowns, the lifting of glasses and the ringing of bells. In Japan — between kagamimochi cake and otoso rice wine — December 31 is also occasion for the most spectacular fightsport extravaganza of the year.

Tens of thousands will fill the Saitama Super Arena, and tens of millions will watch on nationwide television, as 36 fighters go head-to-head in FieLDS DYNAMITE!! 2008.

It’s official, Shinya Aoki and Eddie Alvarez will compete at Fields Dynamite!! 2008 on NYE for the WAMMA Lightweight Championship.

WAMMA will still label the winner the “undisputed” lightweight champion of mixed martial arts. Of course, with BJ Penn still being the consensus number one ranked lightweight in the world, it’s rather difficult to take their claim seriously, as I’ve addressed before. However, WAMMA has recognized that argument and addressed it in the press release below. Basically, they are justifying the match based on Penn’s inactivity at lightweight, and should he lose to GSP and drop back down to 155lbs to defend his UFC lightweight title, WAMMA plans to “approach the UFC with the hope of facilitating a fight between Penn and the WAMMA lightweight champion,” which would be awesome, but will never happen.

WAMMA TO RECOGNIZE WINNER OF NEW YEAR’S EVE MATCH BETWEEN EDDIE ALVAREZ AND SHINYA AOKI AS FIRST-EVER WAMMA LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION

After reports had circulated for several weeks that a highly-anticipated lightweight attraction set for New Year’s Eve between Eddie Alvarez and Shinya Aoki would decide the World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts’ (WAMMA) first-ever undisputed lightweight champion, WAMMA officials announced Monday that it will recognize the winner of the bout as its first-ever lightweight champion.