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DREAM 16 in Nagoya – Ishii’s win, Sakuraba’s submission loss
By Zach Arnold | September 25, 2010
They claimed an attendance figure of 9,300. When Satoshi Ishii came out to the ring, he came out to Antonio Inoki’s ring entrance song. (Yes, he is aligned with management that is close to Inoki.) The impression was very clear after the fight that Ishii will be in DREAM for the foreseeable future and that his next fight will be on New Year’s Eve for the promotion. Virtually all of the Japanese media focus was on this after the fight.
As for Sakuraba losing by submission in two minutes to Mayhem Miller, completely predictable and horribly sad at the same time. Picture of the finish here and a picture of a disappointed Sakuraba.
- Heavyweights: Yusuke Kawaguchi defeated James Thompson after 2R by a 2-1 judges’ decision.
- Featherweights: Mitsuhiro Ishida defeated Akiyo “Wicky” Nishiura after 2R by a 2-1 judges’ decision.
- Featherweights: Kazuyuki Miyata defeated Lion Takeshi after 2R by a 3-0 judges’ decision.
- Featherweights: Joachim Hansen defeated Hideo Tokoro in R1 in 2’48 with a triangle choke.
- Featherweights: Michihiro Omigawa defeated Cole Escovedo in R1 in 2’30 with an arm bar.
- Featherweights: Hiroyuki Takaya defeated Chase Beebe in R1 in 1’45 by KO.
- Open-Weight Fight: Satoshi Ishii defeated Minowaman after 2R by a 3-0 judges’ decision.
- Lightweights: Shin’ya Aoki defeated Marcus Aurelio after 2R by a 3-0 judges’ decision.
- Middleweights: Jason “Mayhem” Miller defeated Kazushi Sakuraba in R1 in 2’09 with a side choke.
- Light Heavyweight title match: Gegard Mousasi defeated Tatsuya Mizuno in R1 in 6’10 with a choke sleeper hold.
Tim Sylvia loses in his pro-wrestling debut
While the DREAM 16 show was going on in Nagoya, there was an Inoki Genome Federation show in Tokyo at JCB Hall with a lot of big names. Claimed attendance was 2,958. The promotion announced that their next show would be on 12/3 in Tokyo at Ryogoku Kokugikan with an “Inoki Matsuri (festival)” theme for the promotion’s 7th year anniversary.
- Chris Daniels defeated Munenori Sawa in 5’44 with a moonsault press.
- Original Tiger Mask and Tatsumi Fujinami went to a 10-minute draw.
- Wakakirin defeated Mark Coleman in 11’58 by TKO.
- Kendo Ka Shin & Tamon Honda defeated Bob Sapp & Bobby Lashley in 7’43 when Ka Shin pinned Sapp after a Lashley spear.
- Eric Hammer defeated Atsushi Sawada in 7’19 by disqualification.
- Josh Barnett and Tim Sylvia went to a double count-out in 5’09. A restart was ordered (picture of Inoki ordering restart here) and Barnett won 66 seconds later. After the win, Barnett was declared to be the ‘ace’ of IGF by Antonio Inoki.
Topics: DREAM, Japan, Media, MMA, Pro-Wrestling, Zach Arnold | 7 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback |
That IGF show looks….pretty bad. I would be interested in seeing the Tiger Mask/Fujinami match though. And Daniels/Sawa.
I just don’t see how they can build an organization around Ishii. He just isn’t good enough.
The HDNet broadcast ruined part of the DREAM experience for me. Too many commercials so they go back to the event too late and I end up missing part of the pre-fight intro videos.
Where can I complain to HDNet? God it was annoying as fuck.
Plus the card was a bit lackluster too. This UFC isn’t that good either except for the prelims on Spike.
What’s a sleeper hold? Do you really have to slip in pro wrestling terminology ever now and again?
God, you are an idiot, is this your attempt to make a point to attack pro wrestling? Choke sleeper hold is the only thing you can complain about? Surprised Zach hasn’t said anything to you yet.
How can Inoki’s backers pay for an event like that with a gate of 3000?
I can see Dream putting Saku Vs Ishii for NYE.
Its a shame we cant get dream on UK tv!