DREAM - Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011

Niall0

Official fight card

• Heavyweight Bout: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Satoshi Ishii[1]
• DREAM Lightweight Championship Bout: Shinya Aoki (c) vs. Satoru Kitaoka[1]
• DREAM Featherweight Championship Bout: Hiroyuki Takaya (c) vs. Takeshi Inoue[1]
• IGF Rules Bout: Atsushi Sawada and Shinichi Suzukawa vs. Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata[1]
• IGF Rules Bout: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Peter Aerts[1]
• IGF Rules Bout: Jerome Le Banner vs. Tim Sylvia[1]
• DREAM/K-1 Special Rules Bout: Yuichiro Nagashima vs. Katsunori Kikuno[1]
• IGF Rules Bout: Josh Barnett vs. Hideki Suzuki[1]
• K-1 Max Bout: Yuta Kubo vs. Nils Widlund[1]
• K-1 Max Bout: Masaaki Noiri vs. Kengo Sonoda[1]
• Welterweight Bout: Hayato Sakurai vs. Ryo Chonan[1]
• Featherweight Bout: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Kazuyuki Miyata[1]
• Women's (115 lbs) bout: Megumi Fujii vs. Karla Benitez[1]

Bantamweight Tournament

• Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal Bout: Masakazu Imanari vs. Antonio Banuelos[1]
• Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal Bout: Bibiano Fernandes vs. Rodolfo Marques[1]
• Bantamweight Tournament Reserve Bout: Hideo Tokoro vs. Yusup Saadulaev[1]
• Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner of Imanari/Banuelos vs. Winner of Fernandes/Marques[1]

This starts at 4AM here i think and goes on for 9 hours! If You wanna stay awake after he UFC it could be a bit of a laugh with some half decent fights.

sonic85

where can i watch it do you know? wouldnt mind seeing a few of those fights

Niall0

Id say the only option is to search for a stream when it starts

sonic85

will do. thanks for the heads up - seen a thread on this somewhere a couple of weeks ago but id totally forgotten about it

dave1982

I thought big Timmy was on this card for a pro wrestling match?

Professey Chin

dave1982 wrote: »

I thought big Timmy was on this card for a pro wrestling match?

He is. IGF Rules vs Jerome Le Banner

MrStuffins

Love DREAM but couldn't take watching it live. 6-8 hours long. I rather download and fast forward all the pagentry!

Niall0

MrStuffins wrote: »

Love DREAM but couldn't take watching it live. 6-8 hours long. I rather download and fast forward all the pagentry!

Not a bad idea

Zero-Cool

This is gonna be a bollix of a download!!

calex71

sheehy83 wrote: »

This is gonna be a bollix of a download!!

HD net fights were airing it live in the US so should be an english commentary version available.

Zero-Cool

Ah mostly meant because of the size of the download but thats good news. Anyone know if The Voice and Bas were commentating? Would be worth watching for them alone.

Niall0

Its still on, http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/100270/1/watch-dream-nye-2011-:-fedor-emelianenko-vs-satoshi-ishii.html

Jayo_M

It was meant to be easy for Fedor, and it was. Probably easier than I expected

calex71

sheehy83 wrote: »

Ah mostly meant because of the size of the download but thats good news. Anyone know if The Voice and Bas were commentating? Would be worth watching for them alone.

The voice was, no Bas though. watched the Fedor fight there. No sign of a full event yet though.

What was Fedor showing josh barnet on his phone at the very end of the broadcast I wonder ?? Did anyone see that?

Zero-Cool

Pride Slam KO FTW!

Professey Chin

sheehy83 wrote: »

Pride Slam KO FTW!

He comes down full force on his temple :eek:
I winced

dilapidating

sheehy83 wrote: »

Pride Slam KO FTW!

Jesus, that's some incompetent refereeing.

sonic85

didnt get to see any of the fights after - can somebody who has a link for the download send it to me via PM if you can? appreciate it

calex71

Download clocks in at 5.55 GB and over 8 hours run time, theres a lot of skipping to be done, best to wait for individual fights, as only 2 or 3 of the 8 hours are actually worth watching or have fights.

I have to say it's refreshing to see fights in a ring again for a change. Hopefully Japan/Dream/K1 have a better 2012 than a 2011 !!!!!

Edit: Just about half way through it now, Josh Barnets pro wrestling match was great!!!!!, they should have got pro wrestling commentators for those matches though.

calex71

dilapidating wrote: »

Jesus, that's some incompetent refereeing.

Can't remember the guys name but he is a very experienced ref, a lot of these refs have been around since Pride!!! Shockingly slow!!!!!

p to the e

A more patient Fedor by the looks of it. An Olympic judoka is not exactly a pushover but he really had nothing for Fedor. Before the fight he looked quite intimidated.

arybvtcw0eolkf

p to the e wrote: »

A more patient Fedor by the looks of it. An Olympic judoka is not exactly a pushover but he really had nothing for Fedor. Before the fight he looked quite intimidated.

Watched it a few times now - Ishii was terrified.

Ishii's showed this at 1:30 when there was a sloppy flurry of punches and a sloppy clinch - I'd have expected any decent Judoka, let alone an Olympian to try control an arm (at least) and try at least a small feetsweep/hit throw combo.

But he just dropped the head and bottled it.

riffmongous

I dont think being a Japanese Olympic judoka really counts for that much in mma, Yoshida was the only one whoever really seemed comfortable doing mma