Comments on: Sengoku: We won’t run Ariake Colosseum because of a ’scheduling conflict’

By: smoogy

smoogy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:36:09 +0000

This should be pretty easy to figure out. Sengoku is “moving” their show to Saitama to be part of K-1 Dynamite this year.

This is what I presumed Sengoku was doing ever since the merger buzz started. In effect, they are giving in to DREAM’s overtures to do brand vs. brand fights, and trading their Ishii vs. Yoshida main event in exchange for coverage.

Some new Tanigawa quotes from Kamipro (via Nightmare of Battle):

“He says that they can do various things, but he himself wants a DREAM vs. SRC showdown, somewhere from 5 vs. 5 to 7 vs. 7. Besides Masato/Souwer, Ishii/Yoshida, K-1 Koshien, and superfights he wants all fights to be DREAM vs. SRC.

When asked if SENGOKU will continue on after NYE, Tanigawa said “of course it will”. They’ll probably discuss it after NYE, but he wants to hold showdown cards between the two organizations at fixed intervals from now on.

Tanigawa said that there won’t be a DREAM+SRC merger organization after this. He rather want both of them to grow more powerful and at times join to hold events as stated above.”

By: jr

jr — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:57:50 +0000

Sengoku should pull a GWF and talk about Olu Oliami funding them

By: Hikari

Hikari — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:24 +0000

Actually it’s now 99,9% sure that it will be a co-promotion on NYE.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:02 +0000

If there was great interest for that fight, they wouldn’t have to be payhg for a TV slot….

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:17:22 +0000

I’m guessing part of the deal with K-1 was they had to run Ishii-Yoshida on their show and they decided against it since they’d rather run it on one of their events. I guess you can’t blame them for that, but it’s still a mistake to run against the K-1/DREAM show. Fans have expected loaded MMA cards on NYE for nearly the whole decade, and Sengoku probably doesn’t even have a good semi-main much less 3 more good fights. This is going to be an epic failure if they don’t back out of it in the next month. Like only slightly better than if YAMMA ran against UFC 100.