K-1 MAX 2009 Final 8: 'Kid' Yamamoto suffers brutal KO loss to Jae Hee Cheon (Video)

I hate seeing KID lose fights, especially like that!

Hey NNR: When you get the chance, fill me in on the interview you were talking about Couture, when he completely overlooked Nog!

tOday is my last day in ROME. Its going to be really sad to have to leave my family and go back to Philly.

Any fans of world traveling that havent been to Rome….shame on you! Rome is like NY but with culture, and the nicest people you will ever meet. THE BEST FOOD, AMAZING woman, and some BOMB ASS HASH (but weed is very rare in Italy). This was the 20th time I was in Rome, and it never gets old. Believe it or not, UFC is pretty damn popular in Italy!

Soccer fans: Last trip to Rome: I arrived the day Italy beat France in the World cup….Best day of my life….Italy was just 1 big party

here’s a snip of it

"I am certainly capable of beating Brock, but it isn’t going to be easy for anyone to beat him. He surprised me standing in our fight. I didn’t judge his range and his speed of punch correctly and that’s my failing. I would have to be smarter with the stand up, and make some adjustments to my timing, but I feel I can beat him standing up."

"I also believe the winner of my fight with Nogueira [at UFC 102] should get the title shot against Brock. The winner of that should be the No.1 contender."

and more regarding Machida

“He’s got a very unique style, very unorthodox, he stays true to his karate background and makes it work,” Couture said. “I could certainly go back down to 205 if that was something they wanted to see. I’d be interested in competing against him. He’s a tremendous competitor and somebody I’d like to fight.”

if he were to fight Brock and Chida his record would probably end up being 16-11…hardly a record worthy of the name cap. America…big fan here but just sayin’

RANDY! RANDY! RANDY! Tell em Cap; he’s not overlooking Nog, who in their right mind would? Randy’s too smart for that; he’s looking ahead at possibilities. I don’t know that theres anyone else after Carwin/Valasquez that should get the title shot; so I see no prob with the winner of Randy vs Nog getting a shot. It’s a little too soon for a Randy vs Brock rematch, but it’s not like Couture has a lot of time left, so if its gonna happen it’s gotta happen soon. As far as Machida, IF Randy could make another miracle comeback, beat Nog and then win the HW title back, I’d say he’s deserving of a title shot at 205. If not then no way should he be allowed to jump down from HW straight into a title fight at 205.

You are probably right, but you can never count couture out.

And on a side note, that would be the most awesome way to go out, if Couture beat Nog, then went on to win the HW belt back, then moved down to 205 and won the LHW belt. Insane.

WAR RANDY!

what worries me is that he’s got 2 fights left on his contract…remember what happened last time he had 1 fight left. Not that I think that’ll happen again but it would be nice to see him go out with a win and not 2 losses to Brock and Chida.

anybody else read what War Machine had to say about the death/funeral of Michael Jackson

THanks McArthur!

What worries me is after Nog, Randy has 1 fight left on his deal. If he beats Nog, I expect him to get a rematch with brock. Lets face it, Dana loves having brock as HW champ because he is a cash cow. The only Heavyweight popular enough to compete with Brock as a draw is Couture, so If Brock is going to lose the title, I would assume the UFC would prefer it being against Couture.

I really believe that the UFC wants to match Randy up with Brock after the Nog fight because its a win/win for the UFC:

Brock wins, Randy becomes more irrelevant, his UFC title aspirations would be DONE in the UFC…and in case Randy leaves the UFC to chase Fedor again, He will have 2 losses under his belt making the fedor fight less important from a historical stand point.

If Randy wins, the UFC is left with the only HW who could compete with brock in terms of being a ppv brawl. Randy would be UFC champion, thus the champion clause in his contract will kick in, and Randy will be stuck in the UFC again!

I fully expect to see Couture/Brock 2, if Randy can get by my boy Nog! Fingers crossed that Nog knocks him out of title contention!

Im not all that interested in seeing Brock/Randy 2. I would prefer to see Fedor/Couture before Randy turns 60

No, what did that idiot say now??

What did he say mac??

I’m not sure if I wanna know.. some of the most retarded comments I’ve read as of late have come from “War Machine”

Good point odhgc………..

its obviously profanity laced so it’ll be stuck in mod for eternity

I had to post John’s predictions on Bisping-Henderson. I just went back and re-read some of them. It seems John called it totally wrong. Read.
JOHN COULDN"T HAVE CALLED IT ANY WORSE…..

Fact of the matter is NICK J is completely right. Hendo is over the hill! is he still a top fighter? ABSOLUTELY! But Hendo is far from the mean and aggressive SOB that used to punch peoples heads off in Pride. While Hendo is on the decline, Bisping gets better every day… Nick brought up a great point that I really agree with. Bisping will use crisp, and fast striking and supperior footwork to keep Hendo at a distance, pick him apart and expose him as the old flat footed fighter that he is!

I had to literally spend years defending Machida and his style when all the idiots called him boring and over rated…NOw this entire site swings from his nuts, but 90% of the new machida slurpers, Bash Bisping for fighting the same exact way that Machida fights….Get a clue and start recognizing Bisping as a top fighter. i honetsly believe that Bisping has a great shot TODAY of beating any Middleweight in the UFC with the exception of Anderson.

Bisping doesnt get enough credit for:
-Being such a good athlete
-His HUGE size as a middleweight
-His GRANITE CHIN: Mark Epstein hits as hard as anyone…go ask him about Bisping’s chin
-Being a very intelligent fighter who follows gameplans perfectly.
-Speed, cris striking, and footwork
-very under rated wrestling. He has faced supperior wretslers like Hammil and Rashad, who all had the weight and power advantage, along with wrestling skills advantage over Bisping, yet NONE of them could keep him down or do anything to him on the ground!
Bisping is NO JOKE!!! Like it or not, he will be a top 10 middleweight for a long time.

He is going to dominate Hendo en route to a decision win, the same way he beat Leben, and you guys will all bash him for it, while I sit back, collect $300 on a $100 bet, and enjoy watching his masterful performance

Congrats Jay…U learned how to work “the google”.

Difference between me is you, is people like you, actually spend time and energy, researching stuff I wrote in the past, hanging on to my every word…

while on the other hand, do you really think anyone has paid enough attention to YOU to actually rememnber something you wrote last week?

“Know what Im sayin?”

YOu want to bring up times I have been wrong, gambling on a long shots? then in fairness you need to post the cOUNTLESS Bigtime upsets that I predicted that turned out completly right!

FYi: Doesnt change the fact that I still believe Bisping will prove to be a top middleweight. He fought a LEGEND and got his head knocked off, no real shame in that.

when I made my preditcion I wasnt privy to Bisping’s gameplan. I had no idea that after all the crap Bisping talked that he would come into that fight, petrified of Henderson, with a fatally flawed game plan!

Do us both a favor and just leave it at that. No need to respond, because Imnot going to get into a day long pissing match withyou.

YOu want to find someone to talk crap too, there are plentty of other people on this site that will happy to spend hours playing that game with you…im just not one of them! I retired from cyber bickering!

Bash on, or move on….either way, im done!

John, You are the Brock Lesnar of MMAMania, every good website needs a good heel lol

John are you saying that you never happen to cross something interesting while searching through the internets? I posted a ridiculous prediction you made, big deal. Do I care if people read or remember what I say? Is that your claim to fame? Because you are 110 pounds and write about MMA? Am I suppose to be jealous of you that you have nothing better going on in your life besides this? JOHN you post your crap opinions on a website, don’t go getting ahead of yourself and thinking that makes you something.

I only posted it because I thought it was funny that you didn’t get a single thing right. I still think you are normally an ok guy. The post wasn’t to make fun of you or anything. Just wanted you to see it in case you had forgotten who you were taking. I know with 800 posts you make a day, you probably forget some of the stuff you say. Sorry to offend.

Bad gameplan or not john surely that “GRANITE CHIN” you told us he had should have seen him through??? After all he did survive the standup game of MMA legend Mark Epstein who “hits as hard as anyone”!

Nice attak, haha, the one thing I remember more than any were the Epstein comments

I know, like Epstein’s some sort of name to be feared??? John built him up as a cross between Cro Cop, Tank Abbott and Machida, when in reality he’s a bum from cage rage who makes Kimbo look like Anderson Silva!

With the video of both Epstien fights freely available on youtube Ive never put much faith in the “Epstien” argument

I still think Bisping has a great chin though and to describe it as weak or made of glass is to say Hendo’s punch wasn’t particularly powerfull…It was and we all sseen it..IMO one of the best KO’s Ive ever seen period and Im a Bisping fan.

I do agree with john though in that Bisping will be back and so does Randy Couture in this interview with with The Sun today -

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ufc/2537342/Randy-Couture-tips-Michael-Bisping-to-bounce-back-from-his-UFC-100-loss-to-Dan-Henderson.html

I allways think that randy talks alot of sense its one of the reasons I believe he will make a great coach when he is finished in the Octagon

Wow how pointless, bringing up someones posts on Bisping-Hendo in a K1 thread, really Jay you must have too much time on your hands if you’re going to copy and paste one of John’s predictions, it comes off as really petty and childish.

I’m worried about Kid’s future at the moment, since his long lay off he was beaten by a one dimensional wrestler in his second pro fight then KO’d in a minute in K1. Whilst his K1 record wasn’t that good, it’s still troubling to see an MMA legend get KO’d like that and since his return Kid hasn’t looked the same fighter and KO’s like that won’t help his chin. Hopefully Kid can get back on track soon, a fight with Urijah would still be awesome.

Anyway dave, back to Bizzzzbing, seriously how sh!t is he, be honest now!

you know it gianpaolo! Forza Roma! =)

John, you should read what others say instead of drawing your own conclusions. I never said I had any feelings toward you, good or bad. I accidentally found your post while searching the net for what War Machine said about MJ. Must be really boring in Rome to have all this time on Mania. I’m only at work so I have an excuse.

Glad i made you chuckle john, I’d been storing that up for days, just waiting for the right time to unleash.

picked Brock only because he liked him? noway dude, because he knew Mir had no shot at winning and Mir had no shot at winnin the first time they fought either, Maz saved him there big time!.. Mir is still the same guy that lost to Brandon Vera!

iceman made you freeze up…how ironic