Posted by Alan Conceicao on 27th June 2008
From this week forward, I’ll be doing my best to try and run down all the major events of the weekend ahead here in this section in the world of combat sport. Whether its boxing, K-1 kickboxing, or MMA, this will hopefully become the one stop shop for where and when you can see the best (and occasionally far from best) action for the weekend.
Boxing’s #1 fighter, Strikeforce’s world class lightweight champ, and the most dominant K-1 heavyweight ever all take to the ring and/or cage this weekend.
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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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