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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Will Eddie Alvarez Sport Aoki's Signature Spandex Pants On NYE?
 Psychological warfare is a big part of the mixed martial arts game these days. The most common form of course is trash talk, but what about wearing a pair of your opponent's signature spandex pants going into a main event fight on New Year's Eve?
That's exactly what Eddie Alvarez joked about doing during a recent appearance on MMAWeekly Radio.
"We already mentioned something like that in the gym. I wanted to do something like that, wear a pair of pants and put something like 'Tonight, I'll be wearing the pants.' Something like that," Alvarez said with a laugh.
In the end, Alvarez says that the pants just wouldn't work out for him, especially in a worst case scenario situation.
"I don't know how great it would be going out there," Alvarez said. "God forbid I get submitted with crazy ass pants on. That's not my style, I'd just rather go out in my regular shorts."
The reaction from the Japanese crowd would likely be very mixed as well.
"Everybody will be looking at me, 'look at this (expletive) in the spandex pants," Alvarez commented.
Regardless of his selection of fight wear that night, even Alvarez has said he looks forward to Aoki's entrance.
"You should see when he comes out over there, it's amazing. His song's real catchy too."
That song...Baka Survivor....check it out on YouTube.Labels: Dream, Eddie Alvarez, K-1 Dynamite, New Year's Eve, Shinya Aoki
posted by MMAInsiderBLOG @ 2:05 AM
Saturday, October 25, 2008
JZ and Shaolin on Course for NYE in Japan
 There is a star-studded cast of international fighters in Chicago this week for UFC 90, including a strong contingent of Brazilian fighters. A couple of the more prominent fighters from Brazil informed MMAInsider that, not surprisingly, they are heading to Japan for New Year's Eve.
Gesias "JZ" Calvancante said that he has healed up from his injuries and will be fighting during Japan's biggest MMA time of year. The deal hasn't been completely finalized yet, but he plans on fighting Dream champion Joachim Hansen, as previously reported by MMAWeekly.com.
Of course, with Japan's penchant for changing up fights at the last minute, you never know.
In town to corner Thales Leites, Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro said that he whole-heartedly plans on fighting in Japan on New Year's Eve as well. He still is under contract with Dream and will fight, but he has yet to be given an opponent.
Kind of sliding in under the radar is Shaolin's recent decision to pull up roots and come to America. About four months ago, according to him, he moved to Jersey City, N.J. and now has his own academy open in mid-town Manhattan.Labels: Dream, Gesias "JZ" Calvancante, Japan, New Year's Eve, UFC 90, Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro
posted by MMAInsiderBLOG @ 12:56 PM
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
K-1 Readying Dynamite!! Minus Fedor
 K-1 has a press conference scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 18, in Japan regarding its Dynamite!! 2008 event. This is K-1's big year ending New Year's Eve event, which is typically the promotion's biggest MMA event of the year.
The promotion had started pushing a possible year-end bout featuring the world's No. 1 ranked heavyweight in Fedor Emelianenko, who is extremely popular in Japan.
Fedor, however, has a contract with Affliction Entertainment in the U.S. His Affliction contract does allow for Fedor to fight elsewhere, especially outside of the U.S. Affliction though has partnered with Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions and has Fedor vs. Andrei Arlovski slated for the new partnership's debut event, tentatively planned for Jan. 24 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
Such a high profile bout would have to keep Fedor out of any New Year's Eve battles, because it would be extremely risky for Affliction and Golden Boy to put all of their marketing efforts into Fedor vs. Arlovski, only to have Fedor get injured on New Year's Eve.
So far, details of what K-1's plans are for New Year's Eve have been scarce at best, but are likely to come into the light on Saturday.Labels: Affliction, Andrei Arlovski, Dyanamite, Fedor Emelianenko, Golden Boy Promotions, K-1, New Year's Eve, Oscar De La Hoya
posted by MMAInsiderBLOG @ 5:01 PM
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