Naturally no Japanese fighting event would be complete without the addition of the occasional freak show.
In a bizarre (but certainly expected) twist, Bob ‘The Beast’ Sapp will take on none other than a character from a Japanese anime show.
The character in question is ‘Kinniku Mantaro’ from the show ‘Ultimate Muscle’. Mantaro is known to start matches off slowly and act a bit of a coward in the TV show until his opponent acts dishonorably (as Sapp does from time to time). Then Mantaro gets his inner strength and hulks up or something along those lines.
Now obviously someone’s going to be behind the mask and costume. That person will be Japanese amateur wrestling prospect Akihito Tanaka, so perhaps some skill will be involved and it won’t be a total squash match.
Sapp relies on his size when fighting and not so much technical prowess but in Tanaka’s case how do you out wrestle someone who weighs 350lbs?
And if that freak show announcement didn’t wet your appetite and you wanted more, then maybe Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic vs. 7′ 2″ ‘Techno Goliath’ Hong Man-Choi will since it’s now officially confirmed by FEG.
Fields Dynamite!! is the New Year’s Eve supershow featuring a smorgasbord of fighters under the umbrella of FEG coming together on one night to try and kick the crap out of each other.
Featuring participants from DREAM, K-1, K-1 MAX and K-1 Koshien, Fields Dynamite!! is going to have a wide variety of fighting styles and compelling match-ups, and could feature as many as 20 fights.
Thus far it appears as though FEG is holding up their end of the bargain.
Here is the scheduled card to date:
MMA RULES :
Heavyweight: Jerome LeBanner (3-1-1) vs. Mark Hunt (5-4)
Heavyweight: Semmy Schilt (25-14-1) vs. Mighty Mo (3-0)
Heavyweight: Alistair Overeem (29-11) vs. Sergei Kharitonov (15-3)**
Heavyweight: Bob Sapp (9-3-1) vs. Kinniku Mantaro (0-0)
Middleweight: Kazushi Sakuraba (24-11-1) vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (32-13-2)
Lightweight: Joachim Hansen (19-7-1) vs. Gesias Cavalcante (14-2-1)
Lightweight: Eddie Alvarez (15-1) vs. Shinya Aoki (18-3)
Lightweight: Hideo Tokoro (21-14-1) vs. Daisuke Nakamura (18-9)
K-1 RULES :
Middleweight: Gegard Mousasi (24-2-1) vs. Musashi (49-28-5-1)
Heavyweight: Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (23-6-2) vs. Hong Man Choi (1-1)
Lightweight: Tatsuya Kawajiri (22-5-2) vs. Kozo Takeda (43-18-7)
Lightweight: Yoshihiro Sato (47-10) vs. Artur Kyshenko (43-5-1, 1NC)
K-1 KOSHIEN RULES:
U-18 Tournament Semifinals: HIROYA (9-1) vs. Shota Shimada (3-0)
U-18 Tournament Semifinals: Ryuya Kusakabe (2-0) vs. Koya Urabe (2-0)
U-18 Tournament Finals: Winner of HIROYA/Shimada vs. Winner of Kusakabe/Urabe
**Bout not confirmed by FEG
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Wanderlei hurt his ACL and had to pull out of the Rampage fight! They dont think they can find a replacement in time so it looks like that fight will be replaced with Okami vs. Lister on the main card!
you gotta be shit**ng me!
Bob sapp looks like a old @ss man!
John you need to provide a source or link for something like this. If it’s a Sherdog forum rumor or some other message board troll job then shame on you.
I googled it, nothing came up! not even this conversation (which you sometimes get!)
I am sorry to say, but john is rarely mistaken.. if ever.. unless he is tooling with us..
Keep refreshing the page waiting for confirmation… John don’t leave us hanging!!
Like mania says there are always rumours on the sherdog forums that i don’t pay attention too, your rep is on this!!
Calm down Fockers! Just having a little fun with you guys!
I have been blogging for years and I have had to sit through many peoples “Troll Jobs”…Just figured I would have some fun with you guys and hit you with a troll Job of my own.
Mania, I would love to provide sources for all the news I post….But In my experience with this site….When I include a source (a different mma site), you tend to not post it. I understand if you dont want me advertising other sites on here. Although If I were you, I wouldnt really care because this site TRUMPS all others by fAR!!!
Just having some fun this morning. Sorry if I caused any heart attacks. I could have left you guys hanging for the rest of the day, but I realized it was a Cruel joke and I figured I shouldnt be playing with you guys like that! Wasnt around most of last week….I just thought I would make my presence felt this morning! lol
Sorry guys….Enjoy the fight…Its still on!
FYI, The last site I pay attention to is Sherdog!
sgrunt!
and I thought my jokes were bad.
fuck you John…thank god too! this will be fight of the night, to think it was canceled meant I may not be watching!!
All’s well that ends well, i can get back to work. WAR WAND.
shit John!!!! take it easy on us!!!
Damn it john, you can’t be doing this to us on fight week, almost gave me a heart attack!
where is this from john? Is this your source in vegas? I check all my sources every morning and haven’t seen this anywhere!
this was the best fight on the card too!
anyone got the weather in san diego this week (not weather.com, actually there…Brendon)!
CHRISTMAS IS OFFICIALLY RUINED! BASTARD!
OMG, I’m gonna be sitting here hitting refresh every 2-3 mins all F*in day, someone confirm something!
Just playing around and being a troll! My reputation on this site is pretty solid so coming from me, I figured it wouyld be funny! Looking back at it….Its just Cruel!
Sorry to cause Heart Attacks….Fights On, both guys are healthy!
I think I even gave Mania a little heart attack! lol
Jesus Christ John…… wait till april fools day for Christs sake!
lol…sorry Psyqo!
Damn you got me pretty good with that one. I thought this weekend was ruined! I’ve never been so scared in my life.. Now I just need to sit back and take a few deep breathes.. take it easy.. yea..
hahaha! I was really going to make u all sweat it out till the end of the day, But I like and respect so many of you guys and thought how I wou8ld feel in your positions and I just realized it was just NOT COOL! Sorry for having a laugh at your expense.
Deep Breath Boys! “BREATH Matty” in my best Matt Serra voice!
you tried this with silvia breaking his arm in training for fedor, didnt work then, didnt work now. for me at least. good try though.
hahahah… I got a lot of other people though BW! Kev hates me now!
hey john, check out aqua blue san diego website, thats where i’m having christmas dinner…I don’t hate you…anymore than i already did! lol! where were you last week? how’s the internship going?
JOHN. good stuff! you had kevin thinking you have vegas sources. lol!. btw, why dont you go ahead and guarantee shads victory over forrest. you know i love your guarantees.
john has a guy in vegas…he told me so!!
I must say John that joke was great, my jaw was at the desk and I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Thank goodness he’s ok… I’m still rooting for Rampage but this would’ve been bad if it was true.
Its all love guys!
Kev, Last week was my 1st week of Christmas break, and because my internship was through DRexel, I get Off from work for as long as students are off on break. I spent the entire week, lying in bed with my girl watching TV, eating like a mad man, and just puffin trees.
Pretty much, I was a bum who laid around all day too lazy to even sit at the computer! lol
Everyone this is bizarro john and not the real john, this is all just a hoax… haha I’m just kidding this news is probably legit and its killing us all inside knowing that its not going to be on the card. Glad that Okami is on the card now, he deserved it in the first place!
Looks like John is a troll.
Rampage was just on Sherdog and said nothing about Wandy being hurt. One would think ‘Page would know if his opponent were injured.
wtf whered you hear that
John, I hope you’re screwing with us, man.
I know you’re normally legit and on top of things, but just this once… be full of crap. PLEASE.
Just this once, I am completely full of Crap! My bad! I just thought it would b believable coming from me. My bad….Enjoy the fight!
This is actually the second time, you did the same thing with the Fedor/Sylvia fight.
Good call Stefan. U r the only one to have caught on. I did do the same thing with Fedor/Sylvia…. These are the only 2 times I have ever pulled a troll jOb!
injuries are way too common in mma.. what the hell!
at least we know that being wanderlei he is not faking it like karo parysian when he pulled out the yoshida fight due to panick attacks..
How important is this fight to anyone that it gets taken over by a Wandy rumor? File under “Who Gives a Shit About Anything Bob Sapp”
haha that would be the best headline for this article.
Hahaha, nice one.
It was a toss up between that and “Fucking Retarded”
You wanna see a real freakshow, tune into CNN. Now THATS a freak show..
Or MSNBC
The fight between Mirko and Hong Man Choi is MMA rules, how many times do I have to point it out!?
Not that I care about Mirko nowadays… it’s still MMA rules.
This whole time I have heard its K1 rules…….
“Dream” rules….
http://www.k-1.co.jp/k-1gp/top884.htm
Cool….. makes it a little more interesting to me…..
I also heard that Mir got cut yesterday training for his fight too……and Rashad hurt his ankle moon walking last night.
in other news GSP has twisted his nipples clean off his chest and will be out of UFC 94
wow i love this card!
Me too. This K-1 card is going to surprise many people. All of the hype in North America is for the UFC card, but I think this is a case where after UFC is over and done with…people will watch the K-1 event and wonder why the UFC one was so lame compared.
All the hype in the world (for big name UFC fighters)
vs
No hype (for very exciting fighters)
Should be interesting.
This event available on Dish Network?
Leave it to the Japanese to make a freak show………. Not sure how to take this I guess it could be funny or just plain old stupid.
Who cares about that one fight…look at the rest of the card!!!!!!!!!
This is true friend I am really impressed with the line up. I am defiantly excited about this card specially with two young future superstar the sport Alvarez, and Mousasi.
I think Sapp vs ScrotumHead is kinda funny.
This thread got jacked quick.
Dude no matter what everyone says here you know you’re gonna watch the video online later in the week.