Comments on: NYE MMA event in Saitama confirmed

By: IceMuncher

IceMuncher — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:27:14 +0000

“Why do Japanese mix up first and last names?”

In Japan, and some other asian countries like China and Korea, you have your family name first, then your ‘given’ name second. Basically the opposite of how we do it. As a result, people screw up the nomenclature when translating names from Japanese to English and vice-versa.

By: klown

klown — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:42 +0000

Why do Japanese mix up first and last names?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:14:11 +0000

Does anyone know how to watch this event live in america.

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:27:51 +0000

Shin’ya Aoki!

By: tyrrant

tyrrant — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:28:40 +0000

yeah i take Aoki beating Melendez on that one

By: sprewell rimz

sprewell rimz — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:35:57 +0000

Ricardo Arona told Graciemag.com that it isn’t him.

but, dudes, we might see Aoki vs. Melendez. AWE. SOME.

By: Smoogy

Smoogy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:42:59 +0000

yarenoka = “Can you do it?”

Inoki’s old catchphrase or something?

By: D

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:23:51 +0000

http://www.yarennoka.com/news/detail.php?id=1195652919

There’s now a Q&A thing on the site that mentions Fujita and Yoshida dojo, but I don’t read Japanese and it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when machine translated.

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Fedor vs Hong Man Choi headlines M-1 New Years Eve show! - TheScoreBoards — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:10:22 +0000

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By: liger05

liger05 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:43:06 +0000

if this is a long term thing how do they expect to get tv deal with all the same DSE figureheads running the show?

Are the Japanese fans really gonna care about this or the Hustle thing when K-1 have a mega main event.