Aoki is screwed. Hirota is really hard to submit. PLus he has some ko power and recently KO'ed Ishida. AOki is gonna get beat up.
It was an ugly night at times for DREAM and Sengoku as the Japanese promotions combined to battle at Dynamite! 2009 in Saitama, Japan on New Year's Ever. A very solid fight card was marred by the out-of-control behavior of Japan's biggest MMA star Shinya Aoki. The 26-year-old jiu-jitsu ace snap his opponent's arm and gave everyone he could the middle finger. That included his downed victim Mizuto Hirota, the crowd and Hirota's corner. Aoki apologized for flipping everyone the bird:But he wasn't about to say sorry for cracking Hirota's humerus:"After my fight, I was excited, and so I did something rude that I should apologize for. But that showed just how excited I was over that fight."Then Aoki went all Kellen Winslow Jr. essentially stating he's an [expletive] soldier: "When [DREAM's event producer Keiichi] Sasahara tells me to go and do something, I do it, and that's how I live my life. If Sasahara tells me to go to Strikeforce and take them out or 'Go and kill that guy,' I'm going to do it. Even if he tells me to go take out [FEG executive Sadaharu] Tanigawa, I'd do that too." Aoki also called out Japanese rival lightweight Tatsuya Kawajiri: "I received a challenge from [Kawajiri], and so without telling him to shut the [expletive] up, I accept the challenge and look forward to our fight." Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker was in Japan for the event with the goal of signing Aoki for a U.S. fight in the first quarter of 2010."When I had his arm behind his back, I could feel it popping," said Aoki. "I thought, 'Well, this guy's pride just won't let him tap, will it?' So without hesitation, I broke it. I heard it break, and I thought, 'Ah, there, I just broke it.' I was stopped afterward, but even if I hadn't been, continuing to break it more would have been fine by me."
That just tells me that he doesn't care one way or another if the guy is too stupid to submit. What if he had simply dislocated it, let go because he had thought it was broken, and then Hirota turned around and Ko'd him with a scott smith-esque balboa punch? We would all be calling him a fool for not finishing the fight.I was stopped afterward, but even if I hadn't been, continuing to break it more would have been fine by me."
His English is very poor! I don't even know if he knows what Thank you means. But why should the translator change his actual sentence? They get decent money for not doing so!Also, on a side note, does anyone else know how good his english is? (if he can speak it at all?) If he is being translated, I wonder if that changes this at all. Just curious.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Dynamite-Notebook-Aoki-Apologizes-amp-Overeem-Plans-on-Fedor-21808SAITAMA, Japan -- Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki not only turned in his most brutal submission Thursday but also his most controversial behavior.
After breaking the arm of Sengoku champion Mizuto Hirota with a hammerlock, the Dream lightweight champion followed it with a middle finger to Hirota, his corner and the audience. Aoki’s actions drew the ire of FEG and Dream officials, as Dream event producer Keichi Sasahara said Aoki was sternly reprimanded for his post-fight celebration.
Although Aoki apologized, his attitude indicated he was not particularly repentant.
“After my fight, I was excited, and so I did something rude that I should apologize for. But that showed just how excited I was over that fight,” said Aoki, despite stating prior to Dynamite that Hirota was a “virtual unknown.”
“When I had his arm behind his back, I could feel it popping,” Aoki said. “I thought, 'Well, this guy's pride just won't let him tap, will it?' So without hesitation, I broke it. I heard it break, and I thought, 'Ah, there, I just broke it.' I was stopped afterward, but even if I hadn't been, continuing to break it more would have been fine by me.”
Sasahara reported Friday that Hirota suffered a fractured humerus.
“Dream got a solid win [with my victory over Hirota], so that was good, but we finished off Sengoku. Although Sengoku was already finished from the very beginning,” Aoki chided, twisting the knife.
Aoki claimed his killer instinct came from a sense of duty to Dream and its management company, Real Entertainment.
“When Sasahara tells me to go and do something, I do it, and that's how I live my life,” he said. “If Sasahara tells me to go to Strikeforce and take them out or 'Go and kill that guy,' I'm going to do it. Even if he tells me to go take out Tanigawa, I'd do that too.”
I agree.Yeah, lots of things get easily lost in translation. I really think that Aoki was just pumped because his boss basically said "Go kill him" and he did. Also he talks about that fight being the proverbial "Nail in the coffin" for Sengoku, with whom his employer DREAM has an ongoing feud with. Aoki seems like a really loyal guy, especially to DREAM, and being able to put that nail in the coffin of Sengoku for his boss had to be one hell of a rush. Him flipping Hirota off was like "Yeah **** you Sengoku!" not like "Yeah I just whooped your ass Hirota!" That my take on it given teh circumstances surrounding the events and the way Aoki acts and what he's said.
BTW: Sherdog Article (sheds a little more light on it than Yahoo!)
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Dynamite-Notebook-Aoki-Apologizes-amp-Overeem-Plans-on-Fedor-21808
Bolded part is what makes me think what I do.