It’s a slow morning. I’m watching the Dream Dynamite!! (must we insist on calling it K-1 Dynamite!!?) press conference, and it’s as bizarre as expected. Sakuraba comes out in some Japanese manga mask, to some truly epic music. Nagashima enters…. and he’s dressed like a girl. A blonde schoolgirl, in a skirt. The ‘fists up staredown’ pose sees him put his pinkie finger next to his mouth, provocatively. Aoki is amusingly unamused – this is an obvious jibe at his former cross-dressing during a press visit to his former Tokyo dojo, prior to expulsion due to his conduct at last years Dynamite.
And who is sat front and centre? INOKI! They’ve got the Ultimate Chin on board. This is comical – what next, Akira Maeda? Lets roll out the Good Ol’ Boys; this might be their last (that is, unless the insider tips and rumours about new investors aren’t true or don’t come to fruition) so why not roll out the old guard? Fook it, Inoki will probably pull some viewers in. 3, 2, 1, go!
Every time Sakuraba opens his mouth (not that we can see it) everyone presents laughs. Aoki and Kawajiri are side by side behind him, grinning. They seem cool with each other, which is good – Aoki suggested they train together on twitter a while ago, in a very respectful manner.
Sakuraba will face Zaromskis for the Welterweight title, confirmed. Marius isn’t there, unsurprisingly, but Saku doesn’t apparently feel like pre-fight hype anyway. He’s cracking jokes – he’ll probably end up getting hammered today, smoking cigars with Inoki and threatening to beat up Yakuza guys. What a lunatic – WAR SAKURABA!
The other co-main (on the MMA side) is a title fight; Bibiano rematches Takaya, and once again the featherweight belt is on the line – as previously reported.
There will be a third Dream champ confirmed on the card in Aoki, but it will apparently be a mixed rules fight with Yuichiro Nagashima. They’re doing another Bob Sapp/Jerome LeBanner type match – one round will be Dream (MMA) rules, the next will be K-1 rules. I love these fights. It may not go more than one round though, either way – striking clinic against Shaolin apart, Aoki is far from impressive standing. He is also the absolute worst matchup in MMA for a striker, especially from K-1 as opposed to a striking orientated Mixed Martial Artist.
I cant wait.
Jason “Mayhem” Miller, a black belt and a screen name
Mayhem Miller is a colourful character. He receives his black belt in the following video, but not before confronting some “homie” of Nick Diaz, who supposedly has some name or other on the internet, which he has used to “talk shit” about Miller for his campaign against Diaz.
Whatever. The guy isn’t eloquent, funny or particularly interesting, there seems to be NO point to him even being there. Mayhem confronts him, and the guy barely speaks. Son…. a real internet personality like myself grows up idolising Liam Gallagher, and would have acted accordingly. That was ridiculous – you dont deserve a name. At least TRY to say something funny!Fletch
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