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Spoiler!!!!! Super Hulk Tournament for the World Superman Championship

  • 30-04-2009 8:43am
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭


    http://nightmareofbattle.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/the-tournament-to-end-all-tournaments
    Four new fights for DREAM.9 have been announced. An open-weight tournament called “Super Hulk Tournament ~World Superman Championship~” will commence at the event with Minowaman taking on Bob Sapp, Sokoudjou facing K-1 & MMA veteran Jan “The Giant” Nortje, Gegard Mousasi taking on Mark Hunt, and Choi Hong Man fighting former Baseball player Jose Canseco.

    More details to come.

    Update #1: These 4 fights complete the DREAM.9 card.

    HEIWA DREAM.9 Featherweight GP 2009 2nd Round
    Date: May 26th, 2009
    Place: Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan

    Super Hulk Tournament 1st Round Fights:
    Minowaman vs. Bob Sapp
    Jan “The Giant” Nortje vs. Sokoudjou
    Gegard Mousasi vs. Mark Hunt
    Choi Hong Man vs. Jose Canseco

    Lightweight Fight:
    Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. J.Z.Calvan

    2nd Generation DREAM Middleweight Title Fight:
    Ronaldo Jacare vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller

    Featherweight GP Quarterfinal Fights:
    Norifumi “KID” Yamamoto vs. Joe Warren
    Masakazu Imanari vs. Bibiano Fernandes
    Yoshiro Maeda vs. Hiroyuki Takaya
    Abel Cullum vs. Hideo Tokoro

    superhulk.jpg

    Eek :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Well then.This should be..............interesting?
    Oooo featherweight Qfs :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭dunkamania


    Choi Hong Man vs. Jose Canseco


    Bizarre


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    dunkamania wrote: »
    Choi Hong Man vs. Jose Canseco


    Bizarre

    I wonder if he'll wear his uniform as a gi :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,190 ✭✭✭cletus


    dunkamania wrote: »
    Choi Hong Man vs. Jose Canseco

    Is this for real?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭Fozzy


    I love Japan


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭ginoginelli


    lookin forward to this. Mousasi to win the whole thing tbh..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭Fozzy


    lookin forward to this. Mousasi to win the whole thing tbh..

    I hope Canseco taps him out :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    nice idea, shame about the choice of fighters.

    Could have been worked well as full open weight gp as there could have been some great match ups made :(

    That said the Jap's do love a spectacle........ as do I so i will look forward to this, as this is normally a quality event over all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭Fozzy


    I'm guessing that this is a sort of last ditch effort at getting people back watching MMA in Japan. I hope that it works, because it'll mean better opportunities for fighters if it does

    I just don't want a Sapp/Nortje rematch. I stayed up to see them live. Sapp crumbled, it was terrible for them both


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 brutusbeefcake


    Looking forward to Jacare vs Miller.......Miller's a wildman !!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭dunkamania


    Canseco fought a couple of celebrity boxing matches, and lost, I think.
    This is his mma debut.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭Coolhand


    Canseco so rumour has it went out and got a load of black belts in a few months of training. he then got knocked out by some other celeb in the first round of his first fight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Evil_Clown


    DREAM 9 Super Hulk Tournament Promo Video



    You gotta love those japanese :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭Fozzy


    Awesome

    I only just realised that they're all different nationalities


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    They had better let Canseco have his bat.

    Funny to see him ending up in a Japanese based promotion, and all that tends to imply.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Fozzy wrote: »
    Awesome

    I only just realised that they're all different nationalities

    Jaysus Foz it is the World Superman Championship what do you expect?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Anyone have results yet?

    Is it over?

    etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭Jolt2007


    Hasn't started yet. Should be starting at around 10am our time.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Jolt2007 wrote: »
    Hasn't started yet. Should be starting at around 10am our time.

    Thanks only figured that out just there.

    Im going to try and watch it in work. :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Lashley must have loved that result


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Pretty fun card, the production is amazing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    Just saw the novelty fights there in low quality but they were entertaining. Bob sapp looked a lot better on the ground, he had a number of submissions. I'm not sure he'll get Lashley in those positions though.

    Sokojudo is a prick, 6 punches after the bell. I'd love to see Sefo knock him out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Sokojudo is a prick, 6 punches after the bell. I'd love to see Sefo knock him out.


    Yeah totally agree with that, was disgraceful.

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Wow Yamamoto lost a decision in Japan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    Forgot that this was on durring the day being so used to stuff being on at night.

    One to nab later on, Dream usually deliver a great show.


    Soooooooo tempting to read spoilers........ must resist


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭Jason Mc


    the end to nortje and soko was quite the interesting affair....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Terrible ending to the card


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,082 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Sokoudjou should be banned from the sport for that. Absolutely disgraceful.

    Surprising to hear the commentators defending Miller too. A blatantly illegal kick.

    Kid Yamamoto needs to work on his ground game.

    All in all, it was an entertaining enough card and I'll definitely watch the rest of the Super Hulk Spider Bat Wonder Hawk Woman Tournament!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭Maynard


    A couple of great fights, a couple of sham matchups and a very disappointing end to the night. I thought I liked Miller - perhaps he's more of an idiot than I had anticipated. Canceco had his girlfriend as his corner-person:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭Killme00


    Tatsuya "Crusher" Kawajiri = AWESOME


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    sapp looked like he could have snapped minowamas's are like a twig when had it :eek:

    Still working my way through 4 and a half hours of it, they had the K1 guy on commentary which is always fun love his expressions :D

    This show seems to be a bit of a step up for dream, in terms of card and show they are putting on ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭Killme00


    calex71 wrote: »
    Still working my way through 4 and a half hours of it, they had the K1 guy on commentary which is always fun love his expressions :D

    Didnt he say that one of the fighters was on his back more times than his ex girlfriend :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Killme00 wrote: »
    Didnt he say that one of the fighters was on his back more times than his ex girlfriend :pac:

    That was funny!!

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    Killme00 wrote: »
    Didnt he say that one of the fighters was on his back more times than his ex girlfriend :pac:


    Ah Michael 'the voice' schiavello has some cracking turns of phrase, worlds best commentator imo. Havent seen him do mma for HDnet before though he's almost always as entertaining as the fights them selves when ive seen him do K1 events.

    any way check here http://thevoicemichaelschiavello.blogspot.com/2008/05/voice-michael-schiavellos-top-10.html for some crackers :D

    Some gold moments :
    1. "Feitosa is a nice Brazilian... I like a nice Brazilian... I used to tell my ex-girlfriend that all the time."


    2. "There are two things I know for sure: Britney Spears will never win Mother of The Year and Albert Kraus didn't win that fight!"

    3. "He went swimming last week and Japanese whaling boats began firing harpoons at him."


    4. "He's been on his back more than my ex-girlfriend."

    5. "He wears more hair product than Bon Jovi."


    6. "I'm so excited I've got goosebumps on my arm... or some other sort of strange growth."


    7. "There are no windows in Mighty Mo's house. If he wants to let a breeze in he just punches a hole in the wall."


    8. "He's a stud... there are no such things as lesbians in the world, just women who haven't met Paul Slowinski yet."


    9. "He's so tall giraffes are attracted to him."


    10. "He's so short he could milk a cow standing up. You know he went to Tokyo Disneyland last week and they wouldn't let him on any of the rides."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Evil_Clown


    Millers kick did look pretty bad, but I just can't dislike this guy he is pure entertainment.
    So I forgive your kick mayhem because you provided us with this ......



    Japanese school girls FTW :pac:


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