This IS indefensible, especially with Barnett around. Why not wait until Feb and sign Josh? With Fedor’s hands and paper skin, I can’t see him fighting twice in basically 2 months.

sakakibara’s hustle is doing an hustle event at saitama on 31 dec

however, even though the rumours of fedor fighting have been picked up on the japanese boards and in japanese sports newpapers, nothing official about fedor’s fight or even that there will be a mma portion to the hustle event on nye has been announced anywhere – in fact, saeki has denied it will be happening

some people believe the whole rumour is just a scam to get the poor old long suffering PRIDE fans to buy tickets to hustle in the hope of seeing fedor and a real fight – there are a lot of doubts that hustle can get enough people into Saitama on NYE

HONG. CHOI. MAN.

I’m sorry but that’s fuckin’ indefensible. What a crock of sh*t – at least fight Barnett or somebody who’s not a total freakshow.

As FL put it, “It’s like a Japanese tradition to match Fedor up with the biggest, least qualified opponent they can find.”

I give up….

He has the puncher’s chance, but I don’t think Sergei will try to grow brass-balls and duke it out.

On Mighty Mo/Kharitonov, I would be shocked to see anything less than Kharitonov shooting immediately. Mighty Mo’s had his hands in too many different pots. There was the failed boxing attempt before he really concentrated on K-1 again and then moved into doing more grappling. Sergei’s been going nothing but MMA for about 6-7 years now.

The first time out with Shamrock vs. Gracie they pulled in just under 20,000 attendees didn’t they?

I guess we’ll see how far Mighty Mo has progressed as an MMA fighter quite shortly.

I had been told that they were hoping for 6,500 paid.

Strikeforce almost certainly had sponsors, but the gate was the primary revenue. They almost certainly broke even and likely made a little money on the show, which is more than many companies can say.