Aoki's Arm Break Fight Vid-Ouch!

[MattHughesRocks]

Japanese fight promotions Dream and Sengoku combined to close out 2009 in Japan on New Year’s Eve with Dynamite!! 2009 at Saitama Super Arena. The event featured several impressive performances, more than a couple gut checks, and some remarkable finishes. But an unseemly display by one of the top lightweight fighters in the world stole much of the event’s luster.

In a battle of lightweight champions, Dream’s Shinya Aoki immediately put Sengoku’s Mizuto Hirota on the mat and took mount with Hirota’s arm wrapped up and behind his own back. Aoki then proceeded to, quite literally, break Hirota’s arm in an odd sort of twisting armbar. The maneuver popped Hirota’s elbow out of place, leaving his forearm flaccid.

Following the finish, Aoki put himself up for non-sportsman of the year by screaming at Hirota and shoving his middle finger in the Sengoku champion’s face.

Promoters of Sengoku, World Victory Road, on Thursday condemned Aoki’s actions and called on Dream officials to reprimand their champion.

Others took Aoki’s antics a little more in stride. Jason “Mayhem” Miller, who was a guest commentator alongside Michael Schiavello and Guy Mezger on the HDNet telecast of the fight, said, “Hey, that’s the business. We’re not figure skaters.”

Even UFC president Dana White weighed in on the incident, pretty much agreeing with Miller.

“This isn’t (expletive) baseball or one of these other sports,” White said at a gathering of reporters after Saturday’s UFC 108. “Sometimes these guys hate each other. When you break a guy’s arm that you hate, flip him off, and let him know you’re glad you broke his arm, I guess, it happens sometimes.

“It’s not the greatest sportsmanship, but, ‘oh, that guy is terrible, he’s a horrible man and he shouldn’t fight anymore,’ this is the fight business, man. Crazy stuff happens in the fight business sometimes.”

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[Spiritwalker]

Antics like that would get him kicked out of the UFC...Just like Renato...

[MattHughesRocks]

Even tho the ref didn't even try to stop it? I'd have stopped it as soon as they flipped over and I don't even ref.Babalu kept going even after the ref was pulling him off.

[Bonnie]

Maybe someone should break Aoki's arm and then use the flaccid part to give him a bloody nose and THEN fold down all the fingers but the ONE and stick it in his face (just for good measure!)!

Sorry, that was the devil in me speaking.

He's out now.

[MattHughesRocks]

It's up to you Bonnie! HANDLE HIM!

Originally Posted by Bonnie

Maybe someone should break Aoki's arm and then use the flaccid part to give him a bloody nose and THEN fold down all the fingers but the ONE and stick it in his face (just for good measure!)!

[MattHughesRocks]

And I like at the end when the commentator says " that's the nature of this sport.This isn't figure skating"

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by MattHughesRocks

It's up to you Bonnie! HANDLE HIM!

I didn't care for Mayhem's or DW's comments about the matter either.

"...that's the business." Sounded pretty "deliberate" to me and the disrespectful gestures afterward just sealed it.

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by MattHughesRocks

And I like at the end when the commentator says " that's the nature of this sport.This isn't figure skating"

You would!

well his arm broke because he dint tap what did you want? him to do let go . the giveing him the bird after may have been over kill

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by Jason 16

well his arm broke because he dint tap what did you want? him to do let go . the giveing him the bird after may have been over kill

If he could have gotten it another way, "YES!". Looked like he deliberately broke the guy's arm and enjoyed it.

Matt could have broken Gracie's arm ('cause that man wasn't going to tap), but he didn't. So he just GnP'd him.