Anyone see it? Been watching it this morning. * Winner of Manhoef-Mousasi vs. winner of Galesic-Souza Middleweight Grand Prix Final * Melvin Manhoef vs. Gegard Mousasi Middleweight Grand Prix Semifinal * Zelg Galesic vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza Middleweight Grand Prix Semifinal * Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. Alistair Overeem * Sergei Kharitonov vs. Siala “Mighty Mo” Siliga * Keita Nakamura vs. Adriano Martins * Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Masakatsu Funaki * Hayato Sakurai vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka * Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Masanori Tonooka * Hideo Tokoro vs. Atsushi Yamamoto * Yoon Dong Sik vs. Andrews Nakahara Middleweight Grand Prix Reserve Bout Spoiler Missed the Manhoef fight, he lost in rd 1 to triangle. Watched the Aoki fight, he won in round 1, very quickly. Crocop vs Overeem- nasty knee to Crocop's groin in rd 1 meant it was a no contest. The production values are awesome! Annoyed I only saw 2 of the fights.
Haven't seen any of the fights myself, but I checked out the results on Sherdog. Some surprising endings there. I'm looking forward to catching a few of 'em on the 'net later. I'm especially interested in seeing how Crocop performed, in the remaining Middleweight Tournament fights, in the Akiyama fight since I hear good things but haven't seen him in action yet, and in Funaki-Minowa, being an old Pancrase fan. I hope they do well, as rumor has it that if their ratings don't improve, the promotion will go out of business soon.
Akiyama is a very skilled and methodical fighter. He's got a few blemishes on his record which don't seem to suit his talent and skill. Cro Cop.... just disappointing. Final fight of the night was wild. I haven't seen an ending like that in a loooong time.
Going to have to watch the ones I missed, annoyingly my new fire got delivered during the last one! Crocop was sad.Fedor seemed to enjoy himself in the crowd though.Did I hear it correct that either Overeem or Crocop would be facing Fedor ?
Well judging by Crocops performance before the fight was stopped Overeem would look to be the favourite for that.
I haven't seen all the fights yet, but the Cro Cop fight was the one I was really looking forward to most. Happily all the others I've seen from the night so far have been excellent. The Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Masakatsu Funaki fight in particular was great to watch.
