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Posted by Thomas Hackett on 24th February 2008
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If you’re like me, you’ve always wanted to like Bob Sapp in his Mixed Martial Arts career.
If you’re at all reasonable, you want that fighting career to end now.
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Posted by Kendall Shields on 31st January 2008
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by Kendall Shields
A busy weekend for the MMA fan, to be sure. Aside from the much anticipated UFC 81 — which Jonathon Snowden will preview for you tomorrow on this site — there are a number of smaller shows of potential interest this weekend as well.
Let us adopt the most liberal of all possible definitions of “this weekend,” and begin with last night’s Pancrase Shining show held in Tokyo’s Karakuen Hall. Sherdog has the complete results, but really the two results of note here are Shoji’s upset of Artur Oumakhanov, and Katsuya Inoue’s decision win over Satoru Kitaoka in the main event.
Shoji — who can be seen here wrecking Yuji Miyazaki with a flying knee in a match that took less time, bell to bell, then Shoji’s largely regrettable post-fight dance; and here stomping the daylights out of poor Taku Aramaki, before unleashing an even worse dance, if you can believe it — stopped his Russian opponent early in the second round to become Pancrase’s first lightweight King. Tony Loiseleur reports that Oumakhanov kept atop Shoji for the duration of the first round after catching hold of a low kick and turning it into a takedown, and attempted the same technique to open the second, only to see Shoji escape and connect with a “picturesque” (as opposed to the beautiful or the sublime, I guess) right high kick that sent Oumakhanov to the mat. Loiseleur tells us of Shoji’s “emotional, teary-eyed” address to the crowd, but says nothing on the question foremost in our minds: did he dance?
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