Middleweight Tournament: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Andrews Nakahara Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Masakatsu Funaki Denis Kang vs. Gegard Mousasi Taiei Kin vs. Ikuhisa Minowa Magomed Sultanakhmedov vs. Zelg Galesic Dong Sik Yoon vs. Shungo Oyama Ronaldo Souza vs. Ian Murphy Lightweight Tournament (rematch): Shinya Aoki vs. Gesias Calvancante
can't believe Kang vs Mousasi is a 1st round matchup. this tournay is not nearly as exciting as the LW tournay, but it should still be a good one. you have to wonder if we'll ever seen the end of either tourney now though... Kang should drop his insistance on fighting in Korea once a year and sign with the UFC.
The middleweight tournament is kind of a waste. They might as well have gone with WW/LW/FW/BW instead. Seems like they just wanted to involve Sakuraba. A possible Kang/Jacare match-up is interesting.
UFC couldn't sign jacare.. White said his management wanted 'crazy money' wonder what that would be...
Results: Kazushi Sakuraba d. Andrews Nakahara (Neck Crank, R1) Kiyoshi Tamura d. Masakatsu Funaki (TKO, R1) Gegard Mousasi d. Denis Kang (Triangle, R1) Taiei Kin d. Ikuhisa Minowa (Decision, R2) Zelg Galesic d. Magomed Sultanakhmedov (Armbar, R1) Dong Sik Yoon d. Shungo Oyama (Decision, R2) Ronaldo Souza d. Ian Murphy (RNC, R1) Shinya Aoki d. Gesias Calvancante (Decision, R2)
crap, I forgot it was last night/this morning.. luckily I quickly read the results heading.. will have to see the fights without the results must remind myself to pester videotron to add HDNET
