Billed: former PRIDE FC executives present Yarennoka! in which world pound-for-pound number one fighter Fedor Emelianenko takes on South Korean giant Hong Man Choi in Tokyo, Japan.</p> Matches Announced:</p> <ul>[*]Heavyweight bout: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Hong-Man Choi [*]Middleweight bout: Kazuo Misaki vs Yoshihiro Akiyama [*]Lightweight bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Gesias Calvancanti [*]Lightweight bout: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luiz Azeredo [*]Lightweight bout: Hayato Sakurai vs. Hidehiko Hasegawa [*]Lightweight bout: Gilbert Melendez vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida[/list] </p> Also featured: Ricardo Arona vs. TBD</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticKing)</div><div class='quotemain'>Just one American.</p> Anyway to see it here in the US? (payperview)</div></p> It's on HDNet. If you don't get that channel I don't know if it is available on PPV or not.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticKing)</div><div class='quotemain'>Isn't that called MOJO know? (in hd)</div></p> I dunno, I don't think it's available in Canada.</p> </p>
lol, oh well, I won't be here anyways but wanted to see fedor beat the crap out of that giant korean.</p> I'll end up buying ufc 79 when I come back.</p>
looks good. I might get it with some mates. We've been etting a lot of PPV lately. The last Being Hatton Vs Mayweather.</p>
oh hey, It's Pride light! UFC needs to sign Arona, Azerado and Misaki Fedor fight = Zulu fight all over again. A complete waste of time.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Celtic Fan @ Dec 19 2007, 03:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Fedor fight = Zulu fight all over again. A complete waste of time.</div> A leftover from PRIDE is a stipulation that in a match with a large weight difference between two fighters the lighter fighter may decide to prohibit knee strikes, which is something Fedor has chosen to do. This cuts one of the few advantages "Techno Goliath" had out of the match and further fuels speculation that Fedor isn't interested in being truly challenged.
Results: Michael Russow d. Roman Zentsov by submission (North/South choke), first round; Tatsuya Kawajiri d. Luiz Azeredo by unanimous decision, second round; Makoto Takimoto d. Murilo Bustamante by split decision, second round; Mitsuhiro Ishida d. Gilbert Melendez by unanimous decision, second round; Kazuo Misaki d. Yoshihiro Akiyama by TKO (strikes), first round; Fedor Emelianenko d. Hong Man Choi by submission (armbar), first round; Hayato Sakurai d. Hidehiko Hasegawa by unanimous decision, second round; Shinya Aoki d. Jung Bu-Kyung by unanimous decision, second round.
