Strikeforce-DREAM Alliance Press Conference

[alucardseperdalv]

if the rules from the new DREAMFORCE will allow kicks and knee at the ground + elbows to the head, ufc will remain back far away :D bring back PRIDE under a new form !

[manly525]

and by the way, europe and JAPAN is about a 9 hour flight difference. Most guys who fight in the UFC joined before they started doing alot of overseas shows

[manly525]

hey signboy, u r the typical UFC ball protector. You take things the wrong way. I like the JAPS approach to MMA. Dont hate me just because I dont respect the UFC as much as you do

[manly525]

fighters want to fight in the UFC because they r comfortable there. and they dont have to fly all the way to japan to fight, not because the UFC has the best fighters

[signboyy]

@manly525

many fighters only fight once a year so i hardly think a long plane flight to japan would be a factor for a fighter.

and whats the difference between flying to germany, uk and ireland for ufc events and flying to japan for a dream event?

[manly525]

u r both right. DREAM and the UFC like their own kind of fighters. DREAM likes Japanese boys and the UFC like American white boys. doesnt mean anything too bad. But at least the JAPS treat their fighters with more respect.

[signboyy]

ufc has black, white, brown and yellow fighters.

ufc has americans, brazilians, europeans and asian. fighters from all over the world.

dream has primarily japanese and korean fighters

[signboyy]

@manly525

there are a lot of "white boys" as you put it in the ufc, but the point is if black boys and brown boys have the skills the ufc recruits them.

whereas in dream there is an unwritten rule that 80% of the fighters have to be japanese.

[signboyy]

fighters dont make much in the ufc unless they are champions.

fighters want to fight in the ufc because it is where the best fighters are.

dream doesnt have the best fighters because it is run by japanese men who want japanese fighters rather than the best fighters.

[BIHS54]

This is extremely ignorant. DREAM has plenty of the best fighters in the wordl (especially LWs) and so does Sengoku who are PRIDE's spiritual sucessors.

[signboyy]

i will repeat what i said. dream and sengoku exist so that japanese people can watch japanese fighters, rather than the best INTERNATIONAL fighters.

[nadhim69]

thats not true

[signboyy]

yes it is

[nadhim69]

no because we are used to see a lot a foreigner in pride, and I think its one of the reaons pride became so famous. And the union with pride and strikeforce its also a proove that japanese wants to open their organisation to the world...

[signboyy]

yes pride had international fighters

and yes now that dream has joined with strikeforce, the dream events in japan might have more non japanese fighters

but who knows maybe it will just mean that japanese fighters will fight in strikeforce events in america, but the idea of having mostly japanese fighters in dream events will continue as before

[nadhim69]

dont forget that the organisation is in japan

[signboyy]

so that justifies mostly japanese fighters on the fight cards? how about having the best international fighters on the fight cards?

[naturespride2000]

@signboyy

it means .. because they're in japan, they have a biggest pool of fighters that are japanese.

just like in the ufc - ufc has more american fighters than any other nationality because, ufc's in America.

ffs..

[signboyy]

ufc has MUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGE of international fighters than dream does.

[naturespride2000]

@signboyy

ufc also has MUCH MORE MONEY than dream does as well

[signboyy]

what does that have to do dream having mostly japanese fighters?

[naturespride2000]

@signboyy

urg..

k,

so first of all:

UFC doesnt have more international fighters than they have american fighters. 70% of ufc fighters are american . the T.U.F. series, ALL AMERICAN - ufc has roots in america, and they give preference to american fighters unless they're superstars from japan, europe south america.- then they pay them big money to fight in ufc.

2.

that system is true for every mma organization. europe, south american, asian etc

cont.

[naturespride2000]

3. since Dream's not as wealthy as ufc, they cant compete with the ufc in terms of contracts, thus they may lose more international talent to the ufc.

4. the mma world looked at k1, pride, or other japanese mma events for asian talent.

get it? so money affects what international talent u're gonna have. and the country u're in pretty much determines the local talent.

it's not that hard if u get out of ur lil bigoted mjind of urs

[MC211982]

This is one of the best days of mma!

[signboyy]

strikeforce has washed up ufc fighters.

dream has second rate japanese fighters.

strikeforce + dream < ufc

[signboyy]

when all of the dream japanese fighters get beat by the strikeforce fighters, the japanese will just make a new organization so japan can watch japanese fighters.

they should call the new organization "delusion".

[mywar]

haha,SF's champ,Mousasi,Alistair

they are japanese fighter

SF is DREAM

[signboyy]

mousasi and alistair are not japanese

[defoe85]

This is great news for all mma fans...for fans who think that mma is 'ultimate fighting' not so much.

[edwordiard]

if the ufc brought PRIDE backout of the closet they locked it up in the world would be a much happier place

[1985frogman]

Strikeforce + DREAM=make mma fans happy

DREAMFORCE FTW

[Steadno]

Remember without UFC none of this would be possible!

[davis2022]

Yes, so we can thank Rorion Gracie and John Milius for that. Pride was up and running years before the Zuffa got involved.

[Steadno]

and dana too. pride is dead now btw.

[gtrjoe68]

All I want to see is an MMA world cup. this is great, but I would love to see strikeforce or dream/m1 vs ufc.

[Mojo1982]

DREAM and Strikeforce the possibilities are endless............With this suppose co-operation with M1-Global, the UFC has some serious competition it would appear.

[idz135]

just soo long as they continue to never think or act w/ direct competition in mind.

(ex. Elite-XC, Affliction)

[SONofEIRE1987]

elitexc went because of kimbo getting ko'd and the investigations into what was going on behind closed doors.

affliction went because josh took steroids and tom atencio had no clue how to run an MMA organisation.

this is a great day for MMA.