DREAM 8: Shinya Aoki vs Hayato Sakurai (Video)

He doesnt know anything about the ground game cause he liked knees on the ground? ok …..

I respectfully disagree Caesar, and I’m a jits purist! I think the knees on the ground keep the bottom guy more active (because who wants to take a knee to the head) and opens the top positioned guy up for more submissions due to not laying looking to elbow! just my opinion!

No it just makes the ground game more technical if you ask me. If Aoki hadn’t let himself get into that position he wouln’t have recieved those knee strike. Therefore like neihrick said it makes the ground work much more interesting because the fighters can’t be as careless.

Knees on the ground are the best part of Japanese mma! ITs ridiculous that they arent allowed in America, but we allow silly elbow’s that account for the majority of cut stoppages in American mma!

Not allowing Knees on the ground is such CRAP!!!! Rampage’s ground game was probably one of the best in the world back in pride when he was allowed to use knees to the head! That was a major part of Rampage’s arsenal….which makes his transition into the UFC that much more impressive. THe UFC took away one of his MAIN WEAPONS and he is still a force in the best division in the world….If Page was still allowed to use Knees on the ground….I HONESTLY DONT THINK THERE IS A LHW in the UFC that could beat him!

good post John! I agree!

oK guys…let me give you a quick dose of Sunday morning mma news:

-Diego Sanchez was told by the UFC that with an impressive win against Clay Guida, Diego would become next in line for a lightweight title fight against the winner of florian/Penn

-In a very smart career move: Ricardo Almeida has announced to fans and the UFC that he will be cutting down to welterweight from now on!

-brock, not sure if Frank really got hurt, or is just plain scared! I love BROCK…he calls out Mir to be the biatch that he is!

Brock can still talk about someone who beat him? Whenever someone talked shit about me (years ago) the point of kicking their ass was to shut them up! Mir had to have his knee scoped, and it put Brock into the main event at UFC 100…he should be thanking Mir just for the extra money he’ll make on ppv buys alone! What a douche. Mir by 1st round submission AGAIN!!!

your source is? any site?

The Sanchez news was obvious, but Guida sucks so it shouldn’t be a problem! I think the sanchez/Penn match will go deep and may be fight of the year! John, I need your address in the next few weeks, I’m expecting 101 tickets will be going on sale in may, I’ll mail you 500 and you can give me change when I get into Philly! Pick out a nice restaurant cause I’ll owe you dinner!

lol source! this isn’t sherdog braddpitt

Brock wasn’t talking trash. He was respectful the whole time he was on Inside MMA, he said one thing and people blow it out of proportion. Drama kings over here.

cmon man, I don’t care how “respectful” someone says something, he’s obviously discrediting his injury. It would be like me saying John, I respectfully think you’re a fag!

Knees on the ground are fun to watch, but the kind of power one can generate and the king of accuracy someone has on the ground make them very dangerous. They are also very difficult to defend. I agree that it adds a new demention to the ground game that people have to adapt to, but the chance for injury is great. But if the fighters say it’s okay than I’m all for it. However I’m not a proponet of leagalizing knees to the head of a downed opponent in America. I like my American MMA and my Japanese MMA just fine.

John I would like to think if knee strikes were allowed in the UFC we would have a whole new set of amazing fights. We’d see the Wandy of old come out and whoop some people bad. We would probably even see the first death in MMA by the lethals knees of the spider. If I remember right thats how he ended Okami’s night. But anyway I completely agree Kevin that Lesnar should be thanking Frank for getting them on the headline of ufc 100. I also think Frank should be thanking Lesnar for causing this stir to hype their fight. Since this is a rematch and Lesnar was whooping on Frank before getting swiftly submitted I think this fight is going to have a ton of people watching. I don’t know if Affliction is still planning on headlining a show the same night but if they do they will get killed in their numbers.

thanks cog, it was an up kick that ended okami

Yeah, only so far as to be a legend in the sport – to an iconic level not matched by anyone in the sport. Royce Gracie – LEGEND

Thats not his point, yes royce is a legend but if he was in his prime fighting today he wouldnt be a dominating champion, there are just too many well rounded guys.

Royce fought in a different time period against much crappier guys. The game has evolved a ton since then. Gracie in his prime wouldn’t even make the ufc roster nowadays

Once it hit the ground, it was all him. In the standup he was a little stiff but confident- got a couple of shots in. Definite big future like we all thought.

THanks Kev n NNR!!!