Satoshi Ishii Fighting on K-1 MAX Card in DREAM Rules Bout
by Dave Walsh on Oct 27, 2010 4:39 PM EDT
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FEG made a rather strange announcement today, following in a recent trend of adding MMA bouts to their K-1 cards in hopes to bolster the ratings. Chris Nelson discussed the FEG announcement earlier;
Satoshi Ishii will face kickboxer Antz Nansen in a DREAM rules bout at the K-1 World MAX 2010 Final on Nov. 8, parent company Fighting and Entertainment Group announced via Ustream on Wednesday. Ishii appeared on the webcast in a pre-recorded message from Los Angeles, where he's currently training.
Ishii will not be the first Olympic judoka Nansen has met: on Sept. 23, 2009, the New Zealand native TKO'd 2004 silver medalist Hiroshi Izumi in both men's MMA debut.
This reads as a bit of a desperation mood for a post-Masato K-1 MAX world, and seems to have more to do with satisfying their television partners than being overly concerned with the K-1 MAX tournament.
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This is nothing less than a slap in the face to all MAX fighters. MAX doesn’t get enough airtime already with TBS’s “coverage”, now we get to see actual world class fighters get relegated to digests so we can watch a 3rd rate MMArtist try to grapple fuck a green kickboxer for 15 minutes.
Let’s not forget the fact that they’re probably going to spend at least 3 times that much time with Ishii hype and past fight videos too.
Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid.
Has Tanikawa (or more likely, Tanikawa) learnt nothing from the last MAX? DREAM is a cancer, a tumor that’s sucking away from FEG’s resources and not adding anything to entertainment. Ishii is a quick ratings boost yes, but using him only comes at the price of cannibalizing MAX.
The best I hope for is that he gets KO’d early so I don’t waste so much time watching him hugging Antz. He says he still hasn’t given up on fighting under K-1 rules, so I hope they set up vs Semmy on NYE. Akebonos are only needed on Dynamite.
prediction
an embarassing KO loss for Ishii or, and much more likely, the same result as what we saw in his last fight…
we mutha fuckin thug life riders westsiiiide till we die
by cosmic fist technique on Oct 27, 2010 8:53 PM EDT reply actions
Antz Nansen got tapped pretty quick by a 43 year old Enson Inoue (who hadn’t won a fight in 6 years before that). Ishii probably tosses Nansen on the ground and either pounds him out or taps him in relatively short order.
"Nobody can be a champion forever." - Muhammad Ali
he seemed, in his last fight, to be content to box and g’n’p, no?
we mutha fuckin thug life riders westsiiiide till we die
by cosmic fist technique on Oct 29, 2010 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
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