Bushido: The Tournament

[Guest JebusNassedar]

Brackets unceremoniously stolen from Zach "One of everything and two Boston Malts" Arnold.

 

Lightweight GP Tournament:

Takanori Gomi vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Naoyuki Kotani vs. Luiz Azeredo

Hayato "Mach" Sakurai vs. Jens Pulver

Joachim Hansen vs. Yves Edwards

Reserve Match: Charles "Krazy Horse" Bennett vs. Dokonjonosuke Mishima

 

Welterweight GP Tournament:

Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Phil Baroni

Masanori Suda vs. Murilo Bustamante

Ryo Chonan vs. Dan Henderson

Akihiro Gono vs. Daniel Acacio

Reserve Match: Ryuta Sakurai vs. Paulo Filho

 

Chonan/Henderson has my $20.

[Your Paragon of Virtue]

Here's hoping that Busta reverts back to the best P4P fighter in the world that we saw against Matt Lindland.

 

I never saw a fighter deliver as good a performance or as dominating a one as he did in that match. I wish he could go back to that.

[AboveAverage484]

I think age is starting to catch up with Murilo. At his age you've gotta stay pretty active (e.g. Hoost, Couture), otherwise your body is gonna play catchup like his is doing after being out for almost two years. I'm sure he was still training, but he needed to be fighting as well.

 

As for the tourneys, fuck this is the best card ever, bar none.

 

Quick predictions:

 

Kawajiri over Gomi,

Azeredo over Kotani,

Mach over Pulver,

Hansen over Edwards.

 

Kawajiri over Azeredo,

Hansen over Mach.

 

Kawajiri over Hansen.

 

 

Minowa over Baroni,

Bustamante over Suda,

Chonan over Hendo (very close decision, might change)

Gono over Acacio

 

Minowa over Baroni

Gono over Chonan

 

Gono over Minowa.

 

Yeah, I'm picking a dark horse. If Hendo fights Gono, it would be a different story, as I believe Hendo could beat Gono, and possibly win the tourney.