Comments on: Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Sanae Kikuta booked for Sengoku 1/4 Saitama event

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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:51:40 +0000

[...] Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Sanae Kikuta booked for Sengoku 1/4 Saitama event [...]

By: fight

fight — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:31:00 +0000

I think Golyaev was paid to lose that fight, and that is the only reason he didnt finish Gomi off.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:33:42 +0000

“right after Gomi lost to Sergey Golyaev in a lackluster display of fighting spirit on the same 11/1 Saitama show.”

The fight was actually pretty good, and Gomi got robbed.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:13:59 +0000

The James Thompson fight was brutal, too, but not as much of a sustained beating for three rounds as the Barnett fight. You could tell that Barnett felt bad about brutalizing Yoshida (ie, asking “are you okay?” which I agree you shouldn’t do), but the beating kept on going.

By: Fightlinker

Fightlinker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:01:06 +0000

Yeah the barnett fight was pathetic. Barnett asked Yoshida three times if he was ‘okay’. Am I wrong to want my MMA fighters to give it their all regardless of the respect level between them?

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:44:39 +0000

Did you mean the Josh Thompson fight Ivan? The Barnett fight was more of a catch-wrestling/”real” UWF fight wasn’t it?

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:49:44 +0000

I won’t be sad when this company folds. Hopefully their few top fighters will move over to DREAM.

By: sprewell

sprewell — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:54:39 +0000

Yoshida didn’t really take a beating at all in the Barnett fight, and yeah, he should still be fighting because he’s the most popular fighter they have bby far.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:17:22 +0000

Yoshida’s opponent is Sanae Kikuta? Is that the best they can come up with? And isn’t he much smaller than Yoshida? Yoshida was absolutely destroyed by Josh Barnett and it the beating was just brutal. It’s questionable whether he should even be fighting after the beatings that he has taken and the Barnett beating in particular.

It is also ridiculous that the title match is Kitaoka vs. Gomi instead of Kitaoka vs. Golyaev. I know that the survival of the company is dependent on the ratings of the January 4th show, but it’s still ridiculous to have Kitaoka vs. Gomi as a title fight. They could have booked Gomi against someone else in a non-title fight, while still booking Kitaoka vs. Golyaev in a title fight. Then, if Gomi wins impressively and if the company is still in business for another event, THEN maybe you could give him a title shot, but not right after a loss.