27 maart gaat het niet gebeuren

Mirko lost to Randleman in the Opening Round but he hasn't lost his will to fight. Immediately after his fight, Mirko approached Sakakibara about fighting in Bushido 3 at Yokohama Arena on May 23.

“I spoke with Mirko yesterday but he was a little down, mentally and physically. I think he also had some regrets. He's a fighter, a politician and a movie star and he had too many things that required a lot of motivation and concentration. His political duties will lessen from May until summer so he said that he wants to fight again. That's why he asked to fight in May's Bushido.”

Mirko has been fulfilling childhood dreams one after another since last year by becoming a member of the Croatian Parliament and becoming a movie star. Now the only thing remaining for him is his dream of becoming the PRIDE Champion.

Unfortunately for Mirko, chasing too many dreams can make a person too excited. It seemed that Mirko might have lost his focus on his last PRIDE fight.

Another possibility for his loss is, as Fedor put it, “Maybe he was too confident that he would win.” Mirko's been known since his K-1 days as being very proud of himself.

Considering that Mirko didn't expect much trouble from Randleman because he was able to win despite being taken down by Ron Waterman, it's possible this attitude had something to do with his loss. However, Mirko's immediate appeal to fight in Bushido may be a sign that Mirko's become aware of his pride.

“Mirko's going to fight in May and June”, Sakakibara continued. “So, he could be a reserve fighter for the August Grand Prix. I really want the top 3 to fight, regardless. Mirko wants to start again. I think he just had too many difficult situations around him. At the earliest, he will fight on May 23 rd .”

Sakakibara also said that Sentoryu, who lost his debut match against Giant Silva, has also asked to fight in the Bushido 3 event.

Bart wil voorspellen dus mag dat.

De line up van Pride Bushido voor 23 mei is nog niet geheel zeker dus die komt nog.

Wel krijgen we 20 mei It's showtime in 020 en 22 mei K-1 MMA.

'It's Showtime'
May 20th, 2004
Amsterdam Arena, Holland

MMA
Gilbert Yvel vs. Cheick Kongo
Joop Kasteel vs. Dave Vader
Rodney Faverus vs. Melvin Manhoef
Stephan Tapilatu vs. Perry Ubeda
Dave Dalgliesh vs. Barrington Patterson
Irma Verhoeff vs. Yoko Takahashi

Kickboxing
Alexey Ignashov vs. Semmy Schilt
Rayen Simson vs. Sahin Yakut
Badr Hari vs. Aziz Khattou
Fikri Tijarti vs. Chris van Venrooy
Joerie Mes vs. Pajunsuk
Gago Drago vs. Stjepan Veselic

Boxing
Lucia Rijker vs. Lisa Holewyne
Regillo Aaron vs. Francisco Mora

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K-1: MMA 'Romanex'
May 22nd, 2004
Saitama Super Arena
Saitama, Japan

Bob Sapp vs. Kazuyuki Fujita
Alexey Ignashov vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Don Frye vs. Yoshihiro Nakao
Josh Barnett vs. Rene Rooze
Gary Goodridge vs. Sylvester Terkay
B.J. Penn vs. Duane Ludwig
Royler Gracie vs. Genki Sudo
Sam Greco vs. 'Lyoto' Machida
Tom Howard vs. 'Blue Wolf'
Norifumi 'Kid' Yamamoto vs. TBA

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En ja Alexey Ignashov gaat 20 mei in Nederland vechten en 22 mei in Japan.
Het zal me niks verbazen als tie alletwee de partijen verliest, maar ook niet als tie ze wint.

Laat um maar verliezen. Anders krijgen we ook zo'n gast met teveel zelfvertrouwen als Mirko.


Ohja Bart, veel plezier met je voorspellingen