Potential Yarrenoka NYE card ANNIHILATES any UFC card of the last 5 years.

[Fury]

YARENNOKA: DECEMBER 31, 2007 IN SAITAMA, JAPAN
venue: Saitama Super Arena

-Hayato "Mach" Sakurai (#2 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa
-Gilbert Melendez (#3 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (#9 Lightweight in the World)*
-Tatsuya Kawajiri (#4 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Luiz Azeredo
-Shinya Aoki (#5 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Gesias "JZ" Calvancante (#6 Lightweight in the World)*
-Kazuo Misaki (#8 Middleweight in the World)* vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama (#10 Middleweight in the World)*

-Fedor Emelianenko (#1 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Ricardo Arona (#9 Light Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Aleksander Emelianenko (#10 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Joachim Hansen vs. TBA
-Mark Hunt vs. TBA
-Roman Zentsov vs. TBA


hahaha, Dana White shits bullets putting 2 ranked fighters on the same card. 



Cue the UFC fanboys telling me about how the matchups suck. Eat shit fag.gots. 

[Geo]

how can fedor be fighting when he's scheduled against that chinese giant ?

[SinCitysmallGUY]

Does look like a good card if it holds up, and depending on who they match up the TBA guys with..

[Fury]

how can fedor be fighting when he's scheduled against that chinese giant ?

Pretty sure that got shitcanned a few weeks ago. Get with the times geezer.

[Geo]

Pretty sure that got shitcanned a few weeks ago. Get with the times geezer.

fuck you you fuckin fuck fuck !

[Fury]

fuck you you fuckin fuck fuck !

There, there. I'm sure the other bitter UFC fans will be here shortly to console you and massage your nutsack.

[Geo]

and massage your nutsack.

cool !

[20inch calves]

YARENNOKA: DECEMBER 31, 2007 IN SAITAMA, JAPAN
venue: Saitama Super Arena

-Hayato "Mach" Sakurai (#2 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa
-Gilbert Melendez (#3 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (#9 Lightweight in the World)*
-Tatsuya Kawajiri (#4 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Luiz Azeredo
-Shinya Aoki (#5 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Gesias "JZ" Calvancante (#6 Lightweight in the World)*
-Kazuo Misaki (#8 Middleweight in the World)* vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama (#10 Middleweight in the World)*

-Fedor Emelianenko (#1 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Ricardo Arona (#9 Light Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Aleksander Emelianenko (#10 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Joachim Hansen vs. TBA
-Mark Hunt vs. TBA
-Roman Zentsov vs. TBA


hahaha, Dana White shits bullets putting 2 ranked fighters on the same card. 



Cue the UFC fanboys telling me about how the matchups suck. Eat shit fag.gots. 

WOW! now thats what i call a fight card. dana should take notes

[Faust]

WOW! now thats what i call a fight card. dana should take notes

Looks good!
Hope they bring in Couture to fight fedor.

[*ChuteBoxe*]

Looks good!
Hope they bring in Couture to fight fedor.

Not by NYE, Couture's arm still isn't fully healed yet.  There is a better chance of him fighting Josh Barnett than Couture, which dosen't say much.  The card is sick reguardless of who Fedor fights and I hope it will be available on American PPV (I doubt it).

[Petrucci]

YARENNOKA: DECEMBER 31, 2007 IN SAITAMA, JAPAN
venue: Saitama Super Arena


-Shinya Aoki (#5 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Gesias "JZ" Calvancante (#6 Lightweight in the World)*
-Fedor Emelianenko (#1 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Ricardo Arona (#9 Light Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Aleksander Emelianenko (#10 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Mark Hunt vs. TBA

this fights alone make the card excellent. shit, i would pay the same price just to watch fedor and hunt LOL

[milfer]

fedor's not fighting the Chinese freak?

[Faust]

fedor's not fighting the Chinese freak?

nah, jaejonna has got his mind set on the mr getbig 3

[Bluto]

light weight baby

[Bluto]

With New Year’s Eve just around the corner, HDNet has secured the rights to broadcast the highly anticipated Yarennoka! event taking place in Japan on Dec. 31

[*ChuteBoxe*]

With New Year’s Eve just around the corner, HDNet has secured the rights to broadcast the highly anticipated Yarennoka! event taking place in Japan on Dec. 31

Live or two months down the road?

[americanbulldog]

Choi is Korean, not Chinese. 

[Faust]

Choi is Korean, not Chinese. 

potato potato

[Bluto]

A press conference was held on Thursday to announce two more official fights for the "Yarennoka" show on New Year's Eve in Saitama, Japan.

The long-rumored bout between universally ranked number one Heavyweight mixed-martial artist Fedor Emelianenko and K-1 kickboxer Hong-Man Choi is now confirmed.

You can also officially pencil in Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kazuo Misaki for the stacked-New Year's Eve fight card.

With that now known, here's a look at the updated OFFICIAL fight card:

-Fedor Emelianenko vs. Hong-Man Choi
-Gilbert Melendez vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida
-Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo
-Gesias Calvancanti vs. Shinya Aoki
-Hayato Sakurai vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa
-Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kazuo Misaki

Fighters still rumored to be added to the card include: Ricardo Arona, Aleksander Emelianenko and Murilo Bustamante.

[Special Ed]

I'm not impressed.

1. Fedor (an overrated #1) is fighting a circus freak. Dana and the UFC would get absolutely PUMMELED by the media if they matched up a champion against their worst fighter, much less a guy who couldn't even go 3 rounds with Cabbage.

2. Arona (an overrated #9) just got completely obliterated in 2 minutes by UFC newcomer Sokoudjou in just his 5th pro fight!!! Soko is 4-1 and before shocking Nogueira and Arona, he was KAYOED by someone named Glover Texeira. Imagine if Floyd Mayweather got clowned by a kid with 4 fights under his belt...he'd be the laughingstock of the boxing world.

3. Melendez (an overrated #3) is undefeated but hasn't knocked anyone out in 2 years and his most impressive wins are a bullshit split decision victory over Clay Guida last year and a decision win over Kawajiri. Hardly the stuff of legends. He'd be lucky to beat anyone in the UFC Lightweight top eight, including Penn, Stevenson, Sherk, Florian, Huerta, Guida, Edgar, or Griffin.

4. Is Mark Hunt a guy I'd pay to see? No.

5. With corruption involving the Yakuza and Russian Mob, I wouldn't be so sure the fight results haven't already been pre-determined.

I'm not saying Lidell-Silva is my idea of a dream fight, but I don't see anything on this card that has me drooling...

[Geo]

I'm not impressed.

1. Fedor (an overrated #1) is fighting a circus freak. Dana and the UFC would get absolutely PUMMELED by the media if they matched up a champion against their worst fighter, much less a guy who couldn't even go 3 rounds with Cabbage.

2. Arona (an overrated #9) just got completely obliterated in 2 minutes by UFC newcomer Sokoudjou in just his 5th pro fight!!! Soko is 4-1 and before shocking Nogueira and Arona, he was KAYOED by someone named Glover Texeira. Imagine if Floyd Mayweather got clowned by a kid with 4 fights under his belt...he'd be the laughingstock of the boxing world.

3. Melendez (an overrated #3) is undefeated but hasn't knocked anyone out in 2 years and his most impressive wins are a bullshit split decision victory over Clay Guida last year and a decision win over Kawajiri. Hardly the stuff of legends. He'd be lucky to beat anyone in the UFC Lightweight top eight, including Penn, Stevenson, Sherk, Florian, Huerta, Guida, Edgar, or Griffin.

4. Is Mark Hunt a guy I'd pay to see? No.

5. With corruption involving the Yakuza and Russian Mob, I wouldn't be so sure the fight results haven't already been pre-determined.

I'm not saying Lidell-Silva is my idea of a dream fight, but I don't see anything on this card that has me drooling...

I'm startin to get the impression you'd bitch about a free lunch !







It's a card I'd definetly pay to see considering the alternatives lately (although I am kind of lookin forward to seeing the liddell silva card)

[Petrucci]

I'm not impressed.

1. Fedor (an overrated #1) is fighting a circus freak. Dana and the UFC would get absolutely PUMMELED by the media if they matched up a champion against their worst fighter, much less a guy who couldn't even go 3 rounds with Cabbage.

2. Arona (an overrated #9) just got completely obliterated in 2 minutes by UFC newcomer Sokoudjou in just his 5th pro fight!!! Soko is 4-1 and before shocking Nogueira and Arona, he was KAYOED by someone named Glover Texeira. Imagine if Floyd Mayweather got clowned by a kid with 4 fights under his belt...he'd be the laughingstock of the boxing world.

3. Melendez (an overrated #3) is undefeated but hasn't knocked anyone out in 2 years and his most impressive wins are a bullshit split decision victory over Clay Guida last year and a decision win over Kawajiri. Hardly the stuff of legends. He'd be lucky to beat anyone in the UFC Lightweight top eight, including Penn, Stevenson, Sherk, Florian, Huerta, Guida, Edgar, or Griffin.

4. Is Mark Hunt a guy I'd pay to see? No.

5. With corruption involving the Yakuza and Russian Mob, I wouldn't be so sure the fight results haven't already been pre-determined.

I'm not saying Lidell-Silva is my idea of a dream fight, but I don't see anything on this card that has me drooling...

who do you think is number 1 then, couture?

so Sokoudjou is just a scam? he beat minotouro and arona just by accident? I think Arona is better than him BUT he did underestimated the guy that fight and paid the price for it

[BGfnSCOOB]

YARENNOKA: DECEMBER 31, 2007 IN SAITAMA, JAPAN
venue: Saitama Super Arena

-Hayato "Mach" Sakurai (#2 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa
-Gilbert Melendez (#3 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (#9 Lightweight in the World)*
-Tatsuya Kawajiri (#4 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Luiz Azeredo
-Shinya Aoki (#5 Lightweight in the World)* vs. Gesias "JZ" Calvancante (#6 Lightweight in the World)*
-Kazuo Misaki (#8 Middleweight in the World)* vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama (#10 Middleweight in the World)*

-Fedor Emelianenko (#1 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Ricardo Arona (#9 Light Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Aleksander Emelianenko (#10 Heavyweight in the World)* vs. TBA
-Joachim Hansen vs. TBA
-Mark Hunt vs. TBA
-Roman Zentsov vs. TBA


hahaha, Dana White shits bullets putting 2 ranked fighters on the same card. 



Cue the UFC fanboys telling me about how the matchups suck. Eat shit fag.gots. 

While I will agree some good matchups,,I'll be watching
Your Anti UFC remarks are a joke, did you make your rankings up ?
Before any Japanese, Korean fighter gets ranked , let him fight some top UFC fighters
cause whenever they come over, they look like sh*t
AND usually are BORING fights

Like Special Ed said , let these "So called top ranked Lightweights" fight
Sherk , Huerta, Florian, Penn, Faber, Gurgel

and the Fedor fight is a complete joke and probably fixed

[*ChuteBoxe*]

While I will agree some good matchups,,I'll be watching
Your Anti UFC remarks are a joke, did you make your rankings up ?
Before any Japanese, Korean fighter gets ranked , let him fight some top UFC fighters
cause whenever they come over, they look like sh*t
AND usually are BORING fights

Like Special Ed said , let these "So called top ranked Lightweights" fight
Sherk , Huerta, Florian, Penn, Faber, Gurgel

and the Fedor fight is a complete joke and probably fixed

Most of the lightweights on this card would wreck Florian, Gurgel would have his ass handed to him by ALL of the lightweights on this card  and Faber is a featherweight.  I hope you don't consider Gurgel a "top UFC fighter", Imanari ruined his knee and his career.

[danielson]

Most of the lightweights on this card would wreck Florian, Gurgel would have his ass handed to him by ALL of the lightweights on this card  and Faber is a featherweight.  I hope you don't consider Gurgel a "top UFC fighter", Imanari ruined his knee and his career.

How about Stevenson? Would you put him with the top guys?