Dynamite airs tonight at 3am ET/12am PT on HDNet. They added a fight between Mousasi and Gary Goodridge for those folks who didn't think Overeem/Fujita was pointless enough. That's right, Mousasi is fighting a guy who was on UFC 2.
FieLDS Dynamite!! ～The Power Of Courage 2009～
Date: December 31st, 2009
Place: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan
K-1 MAX Fight (5×3 minutes, 1×3 ext.):
17. Masato vs. Andy Souwer
DREAM Heavyweight Fight (3×5 minutes):
16. Gegard Mousasi vs. Gary Goodridge
DREAM Vs. SRC (3×5 minutes):
15. Shinya Aoki vs. Mizuto Hirota
14. Alistair Overeem vs. Kazuyuki Fujita
SRC Heavyweight Fight (3×5 minutes):
13. Satoshi Ishii vs. Hidehiko Yoshida
DREAM Vs. SRC (3×5 minutes):
12. Norifumi “KID†Yamamoto vs. Masanori Kanehara
11. Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Kazunori Yokota
10. Hideo Tokoro vs. Kim Jong Man
9. Melvin Manhoef vs. Kazuo Misaki
8. Hayato “Mach†Sakurai vs. Akihiro Gono
7. Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Michihiro Omigawa
6. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Hiroshi Izumi
K-1 Fight (3×3 minutes):
4. Ray Sefo vs. Yosuke Nishijima
Super Hulk Tournament Final (3×5 minutes):
3. Minowaman vs. Sokoudjou
Sokoudjou over Minowaman (TKO) -- Soko's been rolled over by good opponents but short of some miracle leglock there's no way Minowa beats him.
Sefo over Nishijima (TKO) -- Nishijima is awful, and apparently asked to wear shoes which means he won't even be allowed to throw kicks in the fight?
Shibata over Izumi (Dec) -- Both guys are awful but the fight will probably be entertaining in a car-wreck kind of way
Takaya over Omigawa (KO) -- this fight should be a lot of fun, they're basically putting the two smallest, angriest men in the ring with one another. Could likely go to decision but I'll go with Takaya.
Mach over Gono (Dec) -- hopefully Mach comes out aggressively, because Gono was pretty tentative in his last fight and probably will be in this one too.
Misaki over Manhoef (sub) -- Misaki is a pretty good striker himself but there's no point in tempting fate. He has a pretty good guillotine and he should be able to find a way to snag it fairly early.
Tokoro over Kim (sub) -- Don't remember much about Jong Man Kim but I have to think this is a much better matchup for Tokoro than Sandro, who would have dominated him.
Kawajiri over Yokota (TKO) -- Yokota's not in the same league
Kanehara over Kid (Dec) -- mild upset here, I'm not overly impressed with Kanehara, whose main skill seems to be toughness/heart, but on the other hand Kid is coming off a brutal KO loss in K-1 and another loss in MMA and hasn't looked all that good since coming back. Also Kanehara looks huge compared to him. Kid could grind out a win with his wrestling but I think Kanehara will steal this one late.
Ishii over Yoshida (dec) -- not all that interested in this fight. Hopefully Ishii can end it, but Yoshida is a pretty tough guy.
Overeem over Fujita (KO) -- maybe a guillotine if he's feeling compassionate
Hirota over Aoki (TKO) -- **UPSET SPECIAL** There's gotta be at least one big upset so I'll go with this one. Hirota has pretty serious power and a good sprawl, and I think Aoki might take him lightly.
Mousasi over Goodridge (KO) -- again, maybe he'll submit him if he's nice...
Souwer over Masato (Dec) -- Got into K-1 too late to know much about the Masato/Souwer history, I gather they want to give Masato a last chance to beat Souwer before he retires (Souwer has beaten him twice before), but given that Souwer's been more active against better competition lately, I don't think it'll happen.
phew! That's a lot of fights. Can't wait for the card tonight!
instead of Aoki/Kawajiri we get two fights no one really wants to see, I guess because they wanted to stick with the Sengoku vs DREAM theme. Aoki/Hirota is actually OK I guess, but Kawajiri/Yokota is a waste. Anyways I'm guessing the card is pretty much finalized now, all the announced fights are linked above.
