Former Pride Lightweight Champion Takanori Gomi recently announced on his personal website that he was training with Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. which he announced through his blog for his personal website. In a translation by Suki MMA he had this to say."The main purpose of this trip is to train at Randy Couture's gym. After having a wrestling lesson with Randy, I sparred with Tyson Griffin who fought in the UFC. I enjoyed Las Vegas holidays for a couple of days and my condition is way too far from the best. My movement is so slow and I feel my body is heavier. I fully realized how hard it is to adjust myself when traveling overseas. I have to pay attention to my food and the change of the climate. I mainly trained grappling in my first day and had an interview with Silva and got tons of advice"
It would be really interesting to see if he is using this trip to gauge how he would potentially do in the UFC or other American organizations. I know he is with WVR but who knows if he does not get quality competition if he will get bored and walk away. Hopefully for a Nick Diaz rematch in EliteXC or Dream that would be great.
Yoshihiro Akiyama will fight for the first time since at Dream 5 this will be his first fight since his controversial "No contest" against Kazuo Misaki at Yarrenoka. Misaki who showed he was upset with Akiyama after the disrespect he showed Japanese fighting legend Sakuraba in their controversial "Slippery" fight. Misaki proceeded to soccer kick Akiyama for the TKO and apparent victory. The only problem was that Yarrenka rules had already stated that the kicks were illegal, after a petition from Akiyama's managment team FEG over turned the ruling into a no contest.
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