When it comes to MMA, not everything was in the Octagon or about the UFC on New Year's weekend. Japan had two outstanding fight cards and then there was all the partying around Las Vegas.
Bruce Buffer hit the scene before UFC 125. The dude is 53 years old! What's in his drink? Get me some. He sent out this Sin City club photo (lower left) via Twitter asking for help from @rampage4real. He also snapped a fine of photo of Jake Shields who's not in training.
Things aren't going as well for Jenna Jameson. While walking around Las Vegas on New Year's morning, we stumbled upon this clearance item at the Tito Ortiz's Punishment store inside Hooter's Casino. Make that all Jenna items on clearance.
If you didn't sleep in on Saturday, you had a chance to meet one of the "stars" of Season 12 of "The Ultimate Fighter." Michael Johnson and Alex "Bruce Leeroy" Cacares were joined by none other than Brad Tate for an autograph signing. Who you ask? He was the medic for Georges St. Pierre's team. The medic that got choked by Josh Koscheck. The medic that mocked on Sevak Magakian for being multi-lingual. Good call by The Gun Store in Las Vegas, though, Tate probably was one of the five most recognizable figures from the show. That's got to make hardcore fans "who only want to see the fighting" on TUF real happy.
Sexyata did it again. Kazuyuki "Sexyata" Miyata pulled off another awesome suplex at Dynamite!! 2010. He got UFC veteran Caol Uno this time. At Dream 16, he tossed Takeshi Inoue around in similar fashion. Miyata's upset of Uno was one of the biggest of the night at Dynamite!! Check out the Dynamite!! gallery at FanHouse.
Update I - Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer (Audio - 11:00 mark) said Dynamite!! was a big failure on Japanese TV. He criticized the placement of the matches and pointed out that the Kazushi Sakaraba fight never made it on television in Japan.
HDNet is going to show Sengoku's Soul of Fight over two weekends in January (Part 1 -- Jan. 14; Part 2 -- Jan. 21). Apparently, the Yoshiro Maeda-Masanori Kanehara fight (1:40 mark) was a mini-version of the Leonard Garcia-"Korean Zombie" match. Maeda stopped Kanehara at 1:27 of the first round.
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