If Fedor supposedly isn’t a draw in Japan then what PRIDE superstars would you consider a draw then?

“now unless both fights, not just the Misaki-Akiyama fight, were on tape delay on TBS, there’s no way either of those fights would be aired after 11 PM.”

???

TBS showed akiyama/misaki after Fedor/HCM – since you say “The Fedor-Choi fight happened just before 11pm” it goes without saying that the akiyama/misaki fight was shown by TBS on tape delay after 11pm

it is my memory (and like i said i could be wrong), but Fedor/HCM was on TBS after 11 and so also on tape delay

while none of us will really know unless we look a minute by minute analysis of the ratings – do you really believe that japanese TV viewers would have watched Fedor (russian) v HCM (korean) and switched channels when Akiyama (Japanese/Korean) v Misaki (Japanese) came on?

Fedor is not the TV draw in Japan that people overseas think he is

btw, i am not a puroresu fan

Though I still get the impression from all this doom and gloom gushing for Japanese MMA that some of you want to see Japanese MMA, which surpassed Puroresu, out of jealousy. It’s no secret that Puroresu fans are upset that MMA took over their pro wrestling in popularity in Japan.

i was watching TBS – the Japanese feed. now being NYE i wasnt taking notes or keeping time records, but i recall that Fedor/Akiyama both started after 11 on tbs

by the way, the akiyama fight was shown after the fedor fight on TBS – funny thing, that tape delay

But thanks for your superfluous advice anyway – I’ll be sure to keep a keen eye on reality. You might want to do the same with your “impressions” based on misinformation

so, fedor’s appeal in Japan, even fighting HCM, was pretty low”

The Misaki-Akiyama fight happened well before 11 pm Japanese time. The Fedor-Choi fight happened just before 11pm. So if anything those ratings show that 3.6% of the TV share tuned out after Fedor-Choi was done. If you watched the HDNet Fights broadcast of Yarennoka! live, you would have seen that these fights happened before 9 AM EST and Japan is 14 hours ahead of EST. For eg it’s 2:23 AM in Japan now while it’s 12:23 PM EST.

I know that you have a chip on your shoulder with K-1 and Zombie PRIDE and rightfully so given the activities of their management, but you shouldn’t let your hatred of their management blind you of reality. It’s as if some of you want to see Japanese MMA die in favor of Puroresu. That’s the impression I get on here.

MMA as an extension of Pro-wrestling has been on the decline because they lost their hero to follow (one dominant heavy weight leading figure, often referred as “Karisuma= Chrisma”). Kosei Inoue’s convert into MMA could’ve saved this situation, but he backed out knowing he ain’t make it to the top 5 or even top 20.

Pure MMA somehow survives with fixed fan base of low expectation and low budget promotions. 10 years from now, we will still see the tickets for Shooto and Pancrase sold at ticket pia kiosks. Bigger business like K-1 should find it necessary to further explore Asian market (Shanghai, Bangkok, New Dheli, in addtion to Seoul and HK) to remain big.

Hentai fan I take it? But this comment made me laugh though! Long live “La Blue Girl”!

what do you forsee filling that vacuum in the near future?

Alien tentacle bukkake?