DREAM vs Sengoku NYE 09 Press Conference

snakerattle79 · Nov 25, 2009

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The press conference has started. The trailer is currently being played.

Sasahara and Tanigawa present.

Tanigawa announced that they will hold the event together with SENGOKU on NYE.

Announcement of Ishii vs. Yoshida and DREAM vs. SENGOKU fights as well. The full card is currently being worked on.

Japan Martial Arts Federation president Fukuda has entered.

The World Victory Road general manager as well.

The DREAM army is entering the stage.

Kazushi Sakuraba, Hayato Mach Sakurai, Katsuyori Shibata, Hideo Tokoro, Hiroyuki Takaya, and Shinya Aoki from DREAM and Kazushisa Watanabe from K-1.

The SENGOKU army entering the stage.

Hidehiko Yoshida, Kazuo Misaki, Hiroshi Izumi, Sanae Kikuta, Akihiro Gono, Kazunori Yokota, Mizuto Hirota, Masanori Kanehara, Eiji Mitsuoka, and Yoshihiro KISS Nakao.

Both Watanabe and Tokoro said that they want to fight KID.

Sakuraba with a mask on: Hi, Im Hikari Shinji (a character from Evangelion). Please put me against KID whos in the same weight class as me.

Nakao asks Tanigawa for Mirko. Gono hinted at Sakurai.

Hirota wants to fight Alvarez. Dont you want to see Alvarez get KOd?

Yoshida apologized to everyone who was preparing for the Ariake event and asked all fighters present to fight their hearts out on NYE.

Video message from Ishii: Please be gentle on NYE, Yoshida.

Sasahara said that rules, the fights, the weight of the fights, etc. are currently being discussed. The only thing certain is that KID wont fight Sakuraba.

WVR GM said that SENGOKU is planned continue from next year as well. Though I wouldnt believe what most people say about this right now.
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Time to get information from the big sites (GBRing.com, Sportsnavi.com, and Kamipro.com) reporting this and who get to ask questions. Most information usually come from these post-press conference Q&As.

Satoshi Ishii wasnt present since he is currently training in Las Vegas. The plan is 7 DREAM Vs. SRC fights. The fights will be announced one of these days. Yoshida said that he hasnt heard who hes fighting in this event yet, implying that his fight with Ishii isnt officially announced yet. Tanigawa said consider what direction well take at the press conference.

However, after the press conference Tanigawa said that theyll do Yoshida vs. Ishii. That fight and Masatos retirement fight will be a double main event.

Mach didnt know about any of this since he hasnt been on the Internet lately. In his comment he said that hes hungry since he woke up at 12 PM and hasnt had breakfast yet. The press confernce was moved back 20 minutes because he was late.

Shibata is excited about fighting a SENGOKU fighter, mentioning that there are a lot of Judo medalists there. He wants to fight someone outside of his weight class and hell beat him up.
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Shinya Aoki was a little cocky at todays press conference. When asked about who he wants to fight he said: Whos the current champion of SENGOKU? I dont know.

He also said that if the champion of SENGOKU says hell fight, hell think about it.

When asked to comment on the message Aoki just sent him, Hirota said: My frank impression is that it made me feel sick (it can also mean feel irritated/offended).

Hirota once again said that he wants to KO Alvarez on NYE, he thinks that fight would be more exciting. He ended his comment with: My impression of Aoki? Hes a fighter with long arms and legs.

FEGs Tanigawa said that he himself proposed this union event. They started discussing since the end of October. He also said that he doesnt know what will happen with the FieLDS sponsorship next year.

The WVR GM said that the current plan for the next SRC event is March. The fighters participating will be the fighters who have fought there until now.

Sasahara said that there will be 18-19 fights on NYE, and there will also be fights between DREAM fighters so its not only SENGOKU vs. DREAM on the MMA side. Kawajiri and KID couldnt attend the press conference because they were out on other business.

About SENGOKU only fights (besides Ishii vs. Yoshida) the WVR GM said that its yet to be decided if there will be any.

Misakis participation is also yet to be decided. There will be a meeting about if his suspension will be lifted or not. Misaki himself said: I want to obey the instruction of the SENGOKU side.

There will be foreign fighters competing as well, but the Japanese fighters will be the focus.

Tanigawa wants to match the champions with each other. The rules might depend on the fight.

About a future merger, Tanigawa said that Dynamite!! is mainly TBSs event so theres nothing like that.

The plan is for a double main event but Masatos fight will probably be last since theyll have a retirement ceremony after the fight. The event will start at 3 PM.

About K-1 fights besides Masatos retirement fight and the Koshien finals Tanigawa said that there might be. It depends on what happens on December 5th.
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Grievesy · Nov 25, 2009

18-19 fights? Awesome!!!!!!

If they manage to pull this off it will be one STACKED card! Can't wait!

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