Those guys at your school dont know jack squat. Sakuraba will be fighting the new k-1 Hero's champion, Akiyama. Weeks after Sakuraba armbarred Smirnovas after getting beat down really badly, he had a MRI on his brain and he had some damage done. So thats why Saku had to pull out of the tournement in which Akiyama won.
Akiyama actually TKO'd Smirnovas in the final round of the tournement(first round of the actual fight) and went on to armbar Melvin Manhoef(who had brutally KO'd a Gracie in like 40 seconds in the first round of the tournement). So on NYE, Kazushi Sakuraba will fight Judo/MMA ace, Yoshihiro Akiyama.
And Rickson is way to old to be fighting. He'd get knocked out against the new breed of fighter. |