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Bushido 10 Results
By Zach Arnold | April 1, 2006
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Nobuhiko Takada announced that the next Bushido show in June would feature Japanese Welterweight & Lightweight tournaments.
- Yves Edwards defeated Seichi Ikemoto by a 3-0 judges’ decision.
- Mitsuhiro Ishida defeated Paul Rodriguez (ATT) in R1 in 2 minutes, 29 seconds with a front neck lock.
- Jens Pulver defeated Kenji Arai in R1 in 3 minutes, 59 seconds by KO from referee stoppage after a soccer-ball kick.
- Dennis Kang defeated Mark Weir in R1 in 4 minutes, 50 seconds by tap-out.
- Joachim Hansen defeated Luiz Azeredo in R1 by KO.
- Paulo Filho (BTT) defeated Murilo Ninja Rua (Chute Boxe) by a 3-0 judges’ decision after two rounds.
- Akihiro Gono defeated Kim Dae-Won in R1 by submission (arm-scissors). After the fight, Gono appealed to the crowd for his participation in June’s Welterweight tournament.
- Phil Baroni defeated Yuki Kondo in R1 in 25 seconds by KO from a right hook.
- Ikuhisa Minowa defeated Giant Silva in R1 in 2 minutes, 23 seconds by TKO (referee stoppage).
- Dan Henderson defeated Kazuo Misaki after 2R by a 3-0 judges’ decision.
- Marcus Aurelio defeated Takanori Gomi in R1 in 6 minutes, 34 seconds with a shoulder-crank-style choke hold for the referee stoppage.
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* Kondo’s loss was little shock. Gomi’s was too.
* Baroni’s winning ceremony was touched.
Coleman and Baroni. Next will be Kevin? ^^ Hammerhouse is
back~!
* Finally, revealed Gomi’s weak point: Ground Defense Skill.
When I watched Aurelio beat Gomi, I thought it was like Saku vs Silva #1.
(Maybe Hansen is sad… haha)
Takanori Gomi losing to Marcus Aurelio illustrates the argument for having champions fight only title fights perfectly. Unlike the case of Wanderlei Silva losing to Ricardo Arona in the semi-finals of the 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix (which was 2 rounds instead of 3 for the normal MW title fight), this fight was under the Bushido LW division standard time limit conditions, which meant that there was no reason for the fight to have been non-title (as well as Henderson/Misaki) beyond Aurelio not being a deserving #1 contender. If that was the case, however, they simply shouldn’t have booked Gomi or booked him with whoever was ranked as the #1 contender.
In Boxing, if you lose a non-title bout in the same weight class as your belt, you often are stripped of your belt. For example, Zab Judah lost his WBC, lineal & Ring magazine belts to Carlos Manuel Baldomir on 1/7/06. As a result of the ‘non title’ bout loss, Zab was stripped of his ‘Super Champion’ status in the WBA. However, the IBF, hoping to cash in on a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., allowed Zab to keep the belt although it defies all logic as everyone with any sense knows the legitimate champion is Baldomir. In a similar situation in MMA, BJ Penn choked out Matt Hughes to win the UFC Welterweight Championship. He was stripped of the belt for fighting in K-1’s MMA division, but he was still the lineal UFC Welterweight Champion and only lose that lineal claim recently to Georges St. Pierre.
In a similar situation to the two aforementioned, Aurelio just choked out Gomi and has essentially become the ‘lineal’ PRIDE Lightweight Champion because he beat him until the proper rules (time limit, weight class, etc.) to qualify as a legitimate title bout. The thing is, he has to fight Gomi again in order to ‘earn’ the physical Lightweight belt. It’s embarassing to have a champion lose a non-title bout then get a second chance where he’ll actually defend the physical belt. This is one of the few situations where I agree with the UFC fully (having the champions fight only title fights unless they jump up in weight classes or fight catch weight fights like Hughes-Gracie) in their champion policy. Sure, there are less than deserving challengers that faced for the belt as a result, but at least if they win they get the belt that they earned.
I wholeheartedly support non-title matches. If Aurelio can beat Gomi once, then the re-match should do better business. The fans will see some vulnerability in Gomi for once, Aurelio gets strengthened, and if Marcus wins a 2nd time, everyone will know it’s not a fluke.
Pro-wrestling-style booking is logical, sometimes.
Why couldn’t they have just set up a mandatory title rematch clause for Gomi (or whoever the champion) against Aurelio instead of making Aurelio beat Gomi twice to win a physical belt, just like they do in Boxing and pretty much all other combat sports? It works the same as your suggestion and is more fair to the challenger.
In the immortal words of Ric Flair, “To be the man, you’ve got beat the man”, Aurelio beat “the man”, ergo he is “the man”…jewelry not withstanding.
Gomi!!!
Oh yeah, big win for Baroni too.
Nobody said business was fair in Japan. It’s just profitable. And having a gaijin win a non-title match to set up a title match for the Japanese champion to have a chance to retain his belt means big money.
I agree with zachikibarra,for different reasons though.Gomi desreved a non title bout.Was Zuluzinho vs Fedor for the belt?
End of the line for me is the fact that Gomi did not tap,went out like a champ.
Cannot wait for the return match.
My money says Gomi will win.
Rubber match for new years eve?
Brazilian top team had a good night.
Pride is getting good again.
rand p
By the way,watching bj penn against gomi again earlier,take down defense is not suspect in my opinion.not the greatest but not suspect
The difference, however, is that Fedor destroyed Zuluhinho and thus the issue of the bout being non title is moot since he beat him anyway. In the case of Gomi, however, he lost the bout (clearly at that) and basically created a situation where the value of the PRIDE Lightweight Championship is equivalent to, say, the IBF Welterweight Championship that Zab Judah wears. Both men wear a belt around their waist, but everyone with any sense of reality knows who the real champion in both situations is, considering both men lost in bouts that were under championship fight regulations besides having the title on the line (in the case of Gomi-Aurelio, because DSE wanted him to have a ‘warm up’ and in the case of Judah-Baldomir, because Baldomir didn’t want to pay IBF & WBA sanctioning fees). They’re both paper belts, plain and simple.
if u say so
rematch is still gonna be way different
end result is gonna be interesting.
as a fan this is the best thing 4 me
Judah is not a good example by the way,Not in the same league.
It is a good example considering Judah was the lineal, Ring, IBF, WBA & WBC Welterweight Championship by virtue of stopping Cory Spinks, master of running away. Whether he is any good as a fighter is moot as my point was that, like Gomi, he lost a fight where, although two of the three pieces of tin belts weren’t on the line, the ‘real’ champion was known after the 12 rounds ended and Baldomir was awarded the decision win. Just because Gomi got to walk away with the PRIDE Lightweight belt like Judah got to walk away with the IBF & WBA Super Champ belts (although he was stripped of the status later on for losing a ‘non title’ bout) doesn’t mean that he is still ‘the man’ in PRIDE’s Lightweight division, just like BJ Penn was technically still ‘the man’ even when the UFC stripped him of the Welterweight belt and only lost his status as such when he lost to Georges St. Pierre recently.
Really, it’s a matter of whether or not you believe in lineal (‘the man who beat the man’) titles. Personally, I do, since I think that a real championship must always be on the line unless the champion jumps up/down in weight.
good point well made.
Gomi is still the man in my eyes