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DREAM: New Year! 2011 Results

December 31, 2011   Joshua Wood (Editor in Chief)   No comments
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As UFC 141 concluded it is then time for the yearend spectacle that is the Dream: New Year! 2011. From the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and broadcasting live on HDNet Dream: New Year! 2011 offered up a jam-packed card with a wide assortment of combat sports.

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Ranking Nemesis: The Top Ten for 2011

October 18, 2011   Mike Hammersmith (Staff Writer)   No comments
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In 1967, Murray Woroner had an idea for a program, where the greatest heavyweight boxers in history would fight each other to the delight of radio audiences. Considering boxing had been around, in various forms of rule-sets and legality, for a hundred years, this was a colossal undertaking. With the aid of 250 boxing experts, sixteen of the greatest pugilists in history were selected and given scores in 128 attributes ranging from punching power, to footwork, to confidence. These numbers were then fed into a state-of-the-art computer, very similar to the Spike TV series The Deadliest Warrior, and each fight was virtually simulated. When the dust settled at the end of several weeks of prime time programming, Rocky Marciano defeated Muhammad Ali to become the Greatest Heavyweight Boxer Ever. The problem was, basically no one, including the boxing experts involved in the project, agreed with this.

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In case you missed it: Dream 17 Quick Results

September 24, 2011   Joshua Wood (Editor in Chief)   No comments
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If you stayed up late last night / early this morning to watch DREAM 17 you saw another solid yet long Japanese Mixed Martial Arts event. The card saw the opening round of the eight man bantamweight tournament along with many of the top JMMA competitors.

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Technique of the week – Gogoplata from Mount

June 03, 2011   Matthew Wheeler (Contributor)   3 Comments
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When you think of out of this world submissions in MMA one of the first on the list is the gogoplata which became famous from fighters like Shinya Aoki and Nick Diaz both landing then in MMA fights. It is a submission where the foot or shin is trapped in front of the neck/ trachea and the arms are locked behind the opponents head to add pressure and lock in the submission. It is normally pulled from rubber guard or mount and below is the simple breakdown from a Jiu Jitsu ace on how it is performed, and also its application in an MMA fight.

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Jamie Varner vs. Shinya Aoki Rumored for Dream 17

May 07, 2011   MMA Valor   1 Comment

News out of Jamie Varner’s management team yesterday had Varner fighting Shinya Aoki at Dream 17 on May 29th in Japan. The release though seems a bit pre-mature as Varner’s camp and Aoki’s camp still have details that need to be hammered out.

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The Aura of Shinya Aoki

April 12, 2011   Ian Blanding   No comments

This past Saturday, everyone’s favorite noodle-legged grappler returned to the cage and erased whatever bad taste was left over from his ill-fated New Years Eve Exhibition. Shinya Aoki stopped Lyle Beerbohm with a brutal neck crank a little over a minute into their bout; marking his first win under the Strikeforce bannner and his 27th win overall.

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