what's going on everyone you listen to the Asian MMA podcast where we talk
about everything in anything going on in the world of Asian MMA this episode is
brought to you by New Year's resolutions you have absolutely no intention of
keeping I'm Dana blue and today we're talking
about all the Asian mmm a New Year goodness anything you might have missed
over the holiday break I'm gonna kind of go over all of it now and we're gonna
get into it I'm sure a lot of you know that New Year MMA is sort of a tradition
in Asia going back to the pride days and it really seems like risen has picked up
that mantle and they're really kind of carrying that on there they're doing New
Year's MMA again and while they don't have any fight action from one
championship you know we did get that risen Asian MMA and we have a little bit
of news about one that we'll talk about later as well well I want to talk about
that New Year's MMA from risen first things first I mean any of you guys who
follow a Asian MMA remember I covered the whole Floyd Mayweather situation
before where he went for a press conference and they said he was gonna
fight he flew back to the US he's like nah that's a lie it's not gonna happen
and it ended up happening so we have to talk about his now in air quotes fight
or as I've kind of taken to calling it the past few days with some of my
friends was basically a boxing drive-by worth nine million dollars to Floyd
Mayweather everyone knows he fought undefeated kickboxer attention and you
can call it a fight if you want but it may have been a real fight it may have
been a work I don't know but after three knockdowns in the first round tensions
corner threw in the towel and ended it now it I don't know for me it felt like
a work it looked like a work very suspect I'm not gonna go as far as to
say it absolutely was and maybe it wasn't Floyd had no idea about it I
don't know now let's say if is it big if it wasn't a work Floyd was the bigger
more experienced fighter he was fighting under a rule said he was comfortable
with intention wasn't able to utilize the kicks that he's really known for
we never saw Floyd even think he could have been in trouble I'm not even sure
if Floyd broke a sweat that was the main event it was a weird way to finish the
night but overall I mean risen put together a really good card for us you
know some of the other fights that I think are worth mentioning from the card
Kyoji hooker chai he claimed the first ever risen bantamweight championship by
choking off Bellator champ Darrin Caldwell in the third round is a good
fight you know fairly competitive going all the way through in good finish it
was a strong finish really decisive and you know I like seeing that risen as
crowning champs cuz it makes me think we're gonna start to see hopefully this
necessarily isn't true because we never saw this in Pride but a little bit more
structure to the divisions former Invicta FC champ
Ayaka Hamasaki defeated kind of a cycle to clean the risen woman super atom
weight title is a second-round armbar beautiful finish really good fight the
next one is a tough one just to talk about but pretty much a perennial
openweight women fighter Gabby Garcia tapped out Barbara I don't even know how
say her last name Nepomuceno with a first round Americana you know
and even though these are two big women Gabby Garcia is a freak show and she was
10 kgs heavier than her opponent Barbara but you know at the end of the day this
is the type of fight you really expect in Japan Japanese MMA has always been an
outlier in this regard that they'll put on these freakshow fights for no reason
other than why not you know I remember back in the pride days we'd see like you
know 60kg guys fighting you know yokozuna's
they're okay with that they like it it's cool you know just sometimes they're not
super competitive and unfortunately Gabby Garcia is a very skilled fighter
and she's huge you know no matter when she fights it's gonna be a freak show of
course I'm happy she can make a living doing this as a platform for her that's
fantastic but I am getting a bit tired of kind of just seeing her smash women
even though the getting women closer and her wait there's no one at that size
who's as athletic or who is as hormonal II supplemented or even skilled in
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is her and so there's all these one-sided fights I'll
still watch it whenever Gabby fights because I find it entertaining but it's
getting it is getting a bit old it's a bit old hat now what is hands-down one
of the nastiest eye injuries I have ever seen ever I mean this is if you haven't
seen it go google this Yusuke yah che you got one of the
nastiest eye injuries I've ever seen it was his I was just completely swollen it
was bleeding couldn't even open it and it pretty much it is what ended his
fight with UFC vet Johnny case again google.you sake watch e take a look at
the injury if you don't think is one of the most brutal things ever uh-huh
you're crazy it was an insane injury now I want to move on to one championship
there's some some really interesting news from them over the holiday break
they announced that they have inked a broadcast yellow TV Tokyo for weekly
content both live and recorded and that's gonna have them on free TV analog
in digital broadcasting in Japan as well as the cable platform for Tokyo TV now
this is the second major broadcast deal we've seen one sign of the other one
being TNT in the US and you know this really rounds out the year for them
with really strong TV presence in two high-dollar major markets u.s. and Japan
and uh this is a major win for one I mean they haven't really been on TV in
Japan they haven't been popular there I know that this has been something
they've been pushing all of 2018 and they see this as a key market for their
success I think especially with the e gaming you know and they I think they
view the the ability to break in and do shows in Japan probably as a way to get
leverage in the US market because their hope and people will sort of start to
see that pride nostalgia with one that maybe they're sort of associating with
risen right now I don't know if that's actually gonna be the case I don't even
know if that's what one really wants but that that's what I suspect and I know
from talking to people at one Japan has been a major push in 2018 for them
chattri when I interviewed him middle of last year that that's what he was
talking about is that Japan was one of the the big markets that they were
looking at makes a lot of sense it's a big move in the right direction for them
now I think everyone knows that they're actually going to Japan q1 next year
they're going at the end of March it's gonna be their first ever event there
it's a stack card they've got three titles on the line and
it's also the debut of Demetrius Johnson and Eddie Alvarez for one and I'm gonna
talk more about those matchups in the next episode I'm doing an entire episode
just about the matchups for DJ and Eddie because there's some interesting
dynamics there and some things that I really want to talk about with guarding
one and those particular fighters and a few interesting things I haven't seen
mentioned in the media yet so I'll probably record that over the weekend
and maybe drop that on Monday the other big news for one championship and
probably the biggest thing that they announced rate around the the new year
chat reset unit on put a tweet out and announced one championship is gonna have
an absolutely insane schedule with 45 events in 2019 45 events
they're gonna break down like this 24:01 Championship events that's their main
their main MMA events that you're used to seeing now they're big stadium shows
that they hold in Singapore Bangkok Jakarta KL 24 of those that's two a
month 24 of those twelve one hero Series events so that's like they're there
kickboxing whatever other martial arts they they're doing cuz one of the big
things chachi's talked about for like the vision for one championship is it's
not an MMA organization it's a martial arts organization so he's trying to
actually bring in all these different things they're doing kickboxing they're
doing more Thai boxing SI saket actually had a world championship fight in
bangkok back in 2018 that I was at under the 1 championship banner I think I
think it was a WBA title fight yeah you know they're mixing all these combat
sports all these martial arts together so that's kind of where that one series
event sort of sits the other interesting one is the one Warriors are gonna double
the amount of those they did three last year they're doing six in 2019 six one
Warrior series you know we've seen a few interesting people come up through that
platform right now one of the ones that I'm really interested in rocky Batol he
came through one warrior series he had his first loss in one championship he
had been undefeated up into that point but he sort of came through that
development rank and you know Rich Franklin is heading that up and he's
going around so like all these different gyms all these different places in Asia
and kind of finding unknown talent and bringing it through the system kind of
developing it within the one ecosystem because because of the way that sort of
smaller shows are structured here are not structured for that matter it's
tough to find local fighters who really have a good experience early on in some
cases when they're fighting solely in Asia so it's a smart move by one to
create talent it also gives them a ton of content that they can use online
show on TV build a reality series around because one is all about the content and
all about getting in front of eyes very smart move in the last event they're
gonna have three one eSports events now I don't know if there's gonna piggyback
on top of other events I would imagine Japan is gonna be one of them make sense
to do it there it's a huge market for eSports obviously we know that Demetrius
Johnson is gonna be attached to that he's the brand ambassador for one
esports he's had sponsorship deals with Microsoft and Xbox and the Xbox in the
past I'm excited to see that as well I think it's gonna add a whole new element
of a content side and also to the marketability of some of these fighters
insane schedule you know and it is great for me it's tons of an Asian MMA for me
to cover so I'll be producing a lot more fight previews fight reviews for you
guys also coming up if I don't get a chance to talk about this in another
episode before the event coming up I believe in Jakarta is the first one
event of the year I want to give a big shout out to my friend AJ pyro who's
actually fighting on that card ten weeks ago I'm actually friends with AJ on a
personal level and his wife was actually a producer from one of my previous shows
AJ had surgery and had a tumor removed from I believe a saliva gland ten weeks
ago ten weeks ago and you know I just saw him pro wrestling in KL because he
also does pro wrestling with Malaysian Pro Wrestling he did a their big battle
royal show there to end out the year and now he took a fight coming up in January
10 weeks it'll essentially be 12 weeks after his surgery
he's an absolute beast and I just wanted to give a shout out to him you know good
luck man I know you're training hard AJ you know go do it you know hopefully
I'll get to preview that card I'll of course something early next week and try
to get that done but if I don't if my schedule is too tight just big shout out
to him guys check out that one card check out aj pyro i'm gonna actually
throw a link to his instagram down in the show notes i want you guys to check
out the guy's a beast he's in his forties and he he's absolutely shredded
he's just an amazingly good dude as well other than the fact that he's a cat
lover I know I'm gonna get some hate for that but AJ is a super cat lover but you
know he's just a really good hearted guy and he does a lot of good for not just
the MMA community but communities around Asia he gives back quite a bit I'm glad
that his surgery went well he's recovered and I'm gonna get to see him
fight again also guys is one last note I am now also contributing to the MMA
rankings discussion over on Asian persuasion MMA my friend Leon is running
that and I've known him for like over a year now just through the Asian MMA
scene he does a great job creating coverage and you can check out the
rankings I'll leave a link in the show notes or just check out the Asian
persuasion MMA website AP MMA dotnet all those links will be in the show notes as
well we're gonna try to have I believe Leon wants to start doing a monthly or
weekly updates to the rankings he's got you know a handful of us from the local
community actually contributing to the conversation and wants to kind of keep
that going I think it's gonna be a good place to see sort of like the global MMA
rankings and some of that how the Asian fighters sort of fit into that dynamic
I'll be interested to see just how it evolves over the next year as they're
really just launching even though he's been running it as sort of a social
media side project for so long you know they're based in Malaysia good good
organization check it out and check the rankings out let me know what you guys
think of the rankings if there's some fighters that you think are maybe
missing from there anyway that's all I have for you guys today
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