My personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene

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These guys are just fucking insane
Published 12/22/2007 by fightlinker at Fightlinker.com
... was good, wait to you check out Zach Arnold’s novella on the subject . I’ve given up on giving a shit about anything that happens in the Japanese MMA scene … caring about the sketchy stuff they do would be like getting up in arms every time something in Iraq explodes. At this point it’s just way too old hat and I just preface any article about Japan as “These guys are just fucking insane”.

The Grinch Who Stole JZ vs. Aoki
Published 12/22/2007 by Jeff Comstock <info@bloodyelbow.com> at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... Zach Arnold gives us his personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene and it isn't pretty but it's a good read to get us in the mood for more bad news. Greg Savage at Sherdog.com is reporting that his sources are telling him that the ...

Quick Hits: Josh Barnett wins in Pancrase, Zach Arnold on the Japanese MMA scene…
Published 12/23/2007 by Performify at MMAjunkie.com Articles
... put out an excellent (and very long) piece entitled “My personal outlook on the Japanese MMA scene” in which he takes a look back at some of the biggest developments this year in the Japanese MMA landscape as well as makes a few predictions for 2008. ...

The DREAM is Over
Published 4/24/2008 by Kid Nate <info@bloodyelbow.com> at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... Where DREAM plunged ahead as if the Yakuza scandals that killed PRIDE had never happened, World Victory Road took a different approach: ...

MMA in the U.S. Is Far from Its Peak
Published 6/5/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... I'm taking two things away from this -- MMA peaked in Japan in 2003 and stayed strong for the next three years. The glory days in Japan ended when links between PRIDE and the yakuza were exposed, but they started almost a decade earlier with the first PRIDE event in 1997. ...

Wrong Again: Sengoku is Way Behind DREAM
Published 6/10/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... So for whatever reason I decided a couple months back to champion World Victory Road's Sengoku production over the rival DREAM. I guess I was impressed by the steps WVR had taken to distance themselves from the Yakuza scandals that killed PRIDE. I reached a sort of crescendo of nitwittery when I spun a bunch of misunderstood rumors into a mistaken conclusion that DREAM had lost their prime time TV deal. Anyway, I was wrong about that, in case you hadn't figured that out. DREAM has pulled off three hot cards in ...