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A writer in the fight game since the early 1990s. Also writes about sports in general and many other topics. MMA articles can currently be seen at MMA Memories.

Article works have previously been featured for: Fox Sports, CBS Sports, Boxing Scene, Observer, Heavy, Boxing Digest, Powerslam Magazine, and references in Shukan Gong (Japan).

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Archive for December 31st, 2005

New Year’s Eve: Blackout

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I hope all of you (whether you are in Tokyo, Sydney, New York, London, or elsewhere) had a good New Year’s Eve. After doing 7 hours of PBP for the PRIDE Man Festival 3 show, a major storm hit the area that I live at and caused a massive power outage. 70,000 residents [...]

viewing of pride otoko matsuri&dynamite from a Japanese　ｆａｎ

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Hello(= Konnichiwa) everyone reading it
I’m Tetsuya Sano:I’m a pro-wrestling&kakutougi(=martial arts) fan and
amateur fighter(9matches 6wins 3loses:kickboxing and shootboxing) living in Shizuoka, Japan
I’ll write down opinion of two new year’eve events in Japanese
If you are ok,please use translator and read it.
個人的に入り込んで見ていたのは
Dynamite！の須藤×ＫＩＤと五味×マッハでしょうか。
前者は須藤さん贔屓、後者はマッハ贔屓で……って二人とも負けちゃいましたね……
須藤さん惜しかったと思うんですけどね……。
距離を大きくとって変則な動きからミドルキック打って離脱
んで、ＫＩＤさんがじれてミドルキック出すのを待って
戻しが結構遅いので引き際にタックルに入るって戦法かな？
って考えてたのでその通りだったらかなりいい具合にことは運んでたんですけどね…
上にも意識を散らすための左パンチにカウンター合わされちゃいましたからね…。
でもとめるのちょっとだけ早すぎない？と。
後者の試合はスタンドに重点が置かれると思ったら
マッハさんの首投げを五味さんが上手く崩して(あと場所もロープ際だったから)
一気にアレで大勢を決めましたね。
あとは…あ、菊田さんの寝技で完勝な試合も印象に残ってます。
最後まで瀧本さんを極められませんでしたがｗ
あと、小川さんは負けたけどああいうアジテーションは天性のものを感じましたね
返しの吉田さんには逆方向の意味で天性のものを感じましたがｗ
金子さんはこれを機にアマチュアからリスタートして欲しいです
これで武士道とかマジで出さないでね、うん。
あと近藤×中村とかダン×ブスタマンチとかは
ノーカットで１Ｒから見たかったですね。
(近藤×中村は２Ｒ～、ダン×ブスタマンチはダイジェスト)
試合以外のところではフジの５時間４５分の
長時間の放送って言うのはやっぱり難しいんだなって思いましたね。
放送順の都合もあってか五味×マッハが須藤×ＫＩＤの
引き立て役になった感が強かったですし
明らかに放送時間持て余してたのにダイジェストの試合とかありましたしね。
その点では放送しない試合が多かったものの番組として
Dynamite!!の方が良く出来ていたかなと思います。
個人的なＭＶＰにはホイスさんに肉薄した所さんを挙げます。
I’m not good at writing English,so I wrote opinion in Japanese.
I’m sorry about it.
I’ll keep [...]

New Year’s Eve (Preview)

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I watched the PRIDE 12/31 Saitama Super Arena show on the Japanese feed. If you want results, go to the Puroresu Power web site. Likely, if you are reading this, you’re trying to avoid spoilers, so let me give you a personal preview of what you can expect or look forward to on [...]

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