2009 Dynamite!! Results & Reverie

DREAM's fighters defeat the Sengoku warriors 5-4 to win the "Raiden Championship!"

Shinya Aoki showed a new vicious side by snapping Mizuto Hirota's arm wounding him with a dislocated shoulder and broken arm at 1:17 of the 1st round! The mat magician pinned the Sengoku Lightweight Champion's right arm behind his back on the floor and pressed until the referee saw the broken arm and stopped the fight. Shinya actually then flipped off the injured Freelance fighter and ran around the ring with 2 #1 signals from his hands for the crowd whom he was upset with, because they had reportedly chanted Hirota's name.

*A wild mood swing from a normally soft spoken and humble man who stated at the following press conference. “When I had his arm behind his back, I could feel it popping,” explained Aoki in a recent report at Sherdog.com. “I thought, ‘Well, this guy’s pride just won’t let him tap, will it?’ So without hesitation, I broke it. I heard it break, and I thought, ‘Ah, there, I just broke it.’ I was stopped afterward, but even if I hadn’t been, continuing to break it more would have been fine by me.”

Hidehiko Yoshida did not follow the plan of "passing the torch" as he won a close Unanimous Decision over the debuting Satoshi Ishii. Neither man world the fabled Gi's and it was the veteran who easily won the 1st round on the feet against a man 17 years his junior! In the 2nd round Ishii landed a rough knee to the groin of Yoshida who collapsed to the ground and the fight was almost called. Satoshi was docked a point and Yoshida spends the rest of the night on defense against a gassed out Ishii.

*Had Ishii not been docked a point he might have won the fight that I actually had scored a draw. Randy Couture eat your steroid infused HGH powered heart out. Wow does that whole sweepstakes for Satoshi seem worth it. Dana White is laughing his ass off right now.

Gegard Mousasi stated his training for the fight for which he got 2 days notice and didn't know until the last minute that the bout was MMA rules and not K-1, was, "not good." He still managed to unload about 3,003 rapid fire punches to the head of Gary Goodridge forcing the ref to step in stop the fight 1:34 after the ass whooping began. "Big Daddy" immediately rose to his feet complaining to the referee but he was not defending himself though he was not hurt.

Melvin Manhoef got off 1st dropping Kazuo Misaki and coming in for his lethal assault on the mat when the referee prematurely stopped a potentially good fight. The zebra stepped in waaay too early fearing the worst on the "Grabakan Hitman" who wasn't given the slightest chance to defend. Bad stoppage by the referee and Mel heads to Strikeforce with on a controversial win.

Tatsuya Kawajiri controlled Kazunori Yokota for 3 full rounds almost ending the evening early a few times but showed much respect for the underdog raising his hand to the crowd in a show of respect.

*Warning* The wheels have completely come off the "Kid" Yamamoto train. Masanori Kanehara pulls the biggest upset of the night for Sengoku, defeating Norifumi Yamamoto by unanimous decision! The "Kid" came out firing dropping Masanori 3 times with strikes but Yamamoto got caught with a right cross that had him reeling. The 2nd saw Masanori plant "Kid" face 1st into the mat and Norifumi held on for dear life the rest of the round. The final round saw Yamamoto attack with the fury of a man needing that KO home run and almost did it with a left hand. A very close fight finds "Kid" on the wrong side yet again! What a fight! Cue panic in the eyes of all the Yamamoto fans.

Akihiro Gono just never dies as he pulls a brilliant armbar submission on Hayato "Mach" Sakurai in the 2nd. I am just stunned and upset by this.

Alistair Overeem bombed a knee that KO'd Kazuyuki Fujita into complete unconsciousness. Poor "Ironhead" was out for a scary length of time and had to be carried out on a stretcher. The "Demolition Man" is practically sweating steroids people. Can we get a damn drug test already?

Sokoudjou is the worst kind of awful. I mean, I just have to state how bad this man is. Just stop sending him out there Dan Henderson. How can Sokojoke train with Team Quest, with the entire world knowing how terrible Thierry's endurance is, and simply never address it? How can this just continue to go on? It was 1 of the worst fights I have ever seen as Ikuhisa Minowa defeats Rameau Sokoudjou by a crowd suicide preventing TKO in the 3rd. The mad did as little as humanly possible in the 1st round and Sokojoke still almost found himself caught in a leglock. Then the standing begins. Such an embarrassing clash of awful styles with little action or engaging of any sort. Just standing and more standing. Yellow card anyone? Now dos yellow cards! The southpaw finally lands the final shot causing the to stop the fight early and thank god! Who has ever seen a fight this bad? Soko complains about the stoppage but it was really to save everyone watching this debacle and not the "African Assassin."

Michihiro Omigawa defeated Hiroyuki Takaya with a TV saving TKO 2:54 into round 1 while Hiroshi Izumi was awarded a decision win against Katsuyori Shibata who should have received the victory. Hideo Tokoro defeated Jong Man Kim by decision as Ray Sefo defeats the horrible Yosuke Nishijima in the K-1 bout. Masato avenged 2 prior losses to Andy Sower to retire from kickboxing as a winner!

Working 9-5 on the picks though Ishii and Shibata should complain about their respective judges errors. Should be 11-3 is what I'm saying.