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Chinese Victory Over “Japanese MMA Champion” Questioned

by on Monday, August 1, 2011 125 comments comments

Chinese Yang Jianping victorious over Japanese Sakano Nozomi.

Chinese mixed-martial arts competitor Yang Jianping took part in a match purportedly against “Japanese martial arts champion” Sakano Nozomi with fantastic results. Besides completely dominating the fight and eventually winning in an arm-bar submission at 2:37 in the first round (5 minutes per round), Yang also completed a rarely if ever seen before aerial pass on a downed opponent in a spectacular feat of agility (seen at 0:57 of the first video).

The news report has received over 3 million views on Youku with a thousand comments; despite the evenly matched debate from Chinese commenters regarding the veracity of the fight, the rating for the video is heavily in favor of the upvotes, numbered 15 thousand to 3 hundred.

The news report that has received over 3 million hits:

A copy on YouTube:

Can’t see the above video?

The actual fight in its entirety:

Screenshots of the “aerial pass” performed by Yang Jiangping:

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Animated gifs of the “aerial pass” performed by Yang Jianping:

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Chinese MMA fighter Yang Jianping defeats a Japanese fighting champion using a spectacular aerial pass.

Comments from Youku:

陶华碧我爱你:

Yet another great [Chinese] characteristic win-win situation for the harmonious Celestial Kingdom! The Chinese fighter won beautifully and confidently, and even though a large amount of money was invested earlier, the win has brought fresh flowers and applause, fame and honor, and more importantly, 1.5 billion Chinese people now have something to be proud of, as well as the confidence to YY [fantasize]! Even though the Japanese contestant is bruised and scarred on the outside, inside he is full of happiness, having been born poverty-stricken and unknown but now getting financial aid from his Chinese friends. His only cost is to lose a match in a foreign land, and what more, only Chinese like to watch this kind of match, as other countries would consider it beneath them to rebroadcast, so his homeland would of course never see his humiliation/shame. Now with his life’s first pot of gold [first major financial windfall], he will first book into China’s luxurious hotels, and then wildly vent his resentment from the match onto the bodies of several beautiful Chinese prostitutes, relieving the blessed sexual life his grandfather lived in China before him [during World War II]. Then, he will use this amount of money to undergo systematic training, ultimately becoming a successful fighter, and live a glorious life.

神秘野驴呀:

Well beaten, kill those fucking little Japanese!

mylove花洒:

The Japanese guy basically didn’t fight back at all?
Watching this made me clap my hands~ just looking at that Japanese’s red hair, he looks like an AV actor…

极地蔷薇舞:

Is the Japanese martial arts champion is this little punk?

很黃很暴力:

The devils now know what Chinese Sanda is.

永远的叁：

What kind of competition is this?! So fake…

那么多规矩:

[I] bet even if the little Japanese didn’t prop him up, Yang Jianping could still flip over him.

武神之影:

This fight was wonderful, no matter whether it was the technique or the rhythm. [This bout] showed us China’s advancement in wrestling [professional sport fighting].

没事偷着乐不好:

The pride of China.

Farless00:

………fake, wake up my fellow citizens. This is just someone who was paid to get beat up.

梦回龙江: (responding to above)

So when a Chinese person wins its fake but when a Chinese person wins then it must be real, right? If [the Chinese fighter] didn’t intentionally plan to use the little Japanese’s legs, then why did he jump? Watch it again a few times, you amateur!!! Are you Chinese?

Farless00: (replying to above)

Doing these low-level fights, where they find a few people to get beat up [throw fights], deceiving the people of China. The fact is, [Chinese fighters] don’t dare to participate in large scale international fights. If they were so good, they would be like Li Na competing at the highest level of competition. Closing the door and flattering “Chinese Wushu” just makes people feel sad/embarrassed.

胡健李小龙张国荣:

For that rotational [flip], the Japanese person propped Yang Jianping with three kicks, it was purely just coincidence.

20522767:

Fake or not fake, impressive or not impressive, [Chinese fighter Yang Jianping] is joining his peers in joining the UFC! May I ask if the UFC is fake too?

梦回龙江：

He wanted to flip over to the other side and indeed there was an element of coincidence but there was comparatively enough skill involved too.

Farless00: (responding to above)

You’re post-90′s generation, right? …I’ve rarely seen such mental retardation.

陆上的→鱼:

When it is a win, we should be happy. We should be proud. But not arrogant! When it can’t be won, then we should go encourage, or prod someone into action without encouragement. In reality, this is all very understandable. Everybody wants to win…who wants to lose? Just because they’re Japanese means they want to lose?
Actually, I would like to gently ask a question… Japanese people don’t want to win against Chinese people?? So they send a garbage [fighter] over? At most, this only shows one level [weight class, match up]. Always so many mentally-retarded people. Are Japanese people so willing to come over to China to lose face and let others beat them?

hwjk7521814:

I really don’t want to say it, [but are we to really believe] a Japanese champion is only at this level? Wake up [stop dreaming].

贰師姐:

[People] are spouting nonsense. So this level [of fighter] is supposed o be a Japanese champion?? Back then, didn’t we used to say that we’d crush Japan? Qie, Chinese just love to fools themselves. Japan simultaneously fought the powerful countries of the Soviet Union and the United States, whereas stupid China didn’t even know where its forces were. Chinese people just love to do this, where there is obviously something suspicious yet still willing to lie to themselves, saying this is a Japanese fighting champion.

xmgffxzh007：

Fighting champion? Fighting champion for which competitive organization?

／实话太多:

After watching the match I had to laugh; there certainly are a great number of professors and experts on Youku.

南小荡:

This Japanese person doesn’t even know jujitsu. The Japanese guy kept think it was standing rules. China, such cheaters/deceivers. Yang Jianping can go to the UFC and MMA and try, but it is [our] country that’s [holding him back] by protecting him [from failure], having found 3rd rate fighters for him to fight.

hushixun:

You’re the stupid ones. How many Chinese-Japanese matches have you seen? Have you seen high-level Chinese fighters in the K-1 leage in Japan? Did you know that the number of people who practice martial arts/compete in martial arts tournaments in our country are actually less than Japan? You traitor!

pyy81890523: (responding to above)

So what you are saying is that since China has no representatives competing in K-1, this completely proves that Chinese Sanda is no match for Japanese [fighting]? What kind of narrow method of proving something is this? The true high-level Chinese martial artists are always hidden amongst the people. Whenever China wins a match, just look at your reactions. If it isn’t that the loser was paid to throw the match, then its Chinese people fantasizing? Are your TM brains made of paste? So your meaning is that this Japanese should have won, isn’t that right?

雅典娜的圣★斗士: (responding to above)

There was a Chinese person, a heavy-weight Sanda fighter named Wang Qiang [literally: King Strong] who went to fight a K-1 match in Japan and fell to a wretched-looking, fat, bald man after a few punches…

For comparison, here is another video that shows a Chinese fighter knocking out someone also identified as a “Japanese martial arts champion”, but this time in a bout that only lasted 8 seconds long. It was uploaded a year ago and has received over 3.6 millions hits on Youku. Like the above video, it has received many more upvotes than downvotes: 24 thousand upvotes, 1 thousand downvotes. The match actually begins at the 5:04 mark of the video.

Animated GIFs of the 8-second knockout:

An eight-second knock-out performed on a Japanese fighting champion.

An eight-second knock-out performed on a Japanese fighting champion.

An eight-second knock-out performed on a Japanese fighting champion.

Comments from Youku:

新手e念:

Fuck, too fake. So this is the skill of a champion? Fake!!!

asdfvcxr:

So fake. The Japanese fighter in the video doesn’t even look like a martial artist at all. He couldn’t be a shill, could he??? Only hitting the head, is that allowed in the rules?

568406784: (responding to comment above)

Yeah, great minds think alike.

hjbkid:

That cop must have originated from the chengguan. [The Chinese fighter was a police officer.]

周老的:

Fakefakefake

独占你的好、:

I really don’t know what the people who say this as a fake fight are thinking, you think only Chinese are watching this? That foreigners aren’t watching this??? That they’re mentally retarded? That they’d [willingly] let you KO them in 8 seconds and lose face?? You think they’re all short on money [and willing to be bribed to throw the match]?

Gentle峰:

Okay, my feeling is that it is fake… the very last punch that could be the KO punch… [it was a] left hook that didn’t connect… I watched it many times, and at best (the left hook) just grazed his head. 75 kilograms and they don’t even have the ability to withstand a hit like this??? You’re kidding me..

action71:

Please everybody, let’s not start with the “Chinese people are all NB” or the “Japanese people are all LJ [la ji, 垃圾, garbage]” comments. First of all, fighting matches have always had a lot of variables, and one match by itself doesn’t prove much. Second, who knows what that Japanese guy is really like. Constantly blindly being happy, sooner or later you’re going to suffer misfortune. To digress from fighting, wasn’t the main reason why we were bullied by little Japan because of China was conceited/thought too highly of itself? If China truly wants to perfect its fighting, then learning with humility is absolutely necessary, for example by participating in some competitions abroad, fighting without differences [in skill/level] and the like. Having said all this, do you really think this 8-second win is something worth celebrating? Everything I’ve said is truth, harsh advice may be grating to the ear, but in the end it’s ultimately good for your character/behavior. Of course, if you TMD say I’m not Chinese or something like that even for this, then I don’t really have anything more to say to you either.

Dominate and mount your partner. Personals @ chinaSMACK.

  • dim mak

    Wang Qiang ain’t bad at all actually, Yusuke Fujimoto wasn’t some wretched, fat guy

    MMA is the future. U mad TMAfags?

    • Canadian_Skies

      Why is it titled “Questioned” there’s no mention of it being questioned. Propaganda bullshit. 10000% typical.

      • vic2u

        May be terroir is suggesting that a China man can’t win at anything without cheating or without some underhand moves.

        • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

          You mean like using ignorance and bully tactics to troll people into submitting into a state of confusion and bewilderment and agree to irrational and illogical beliefs that no one but yourself can figure out and believe?

          This comment could apply to many people, but this time I’m talking to you and your self-imposed victim mentality, VICtim2Urself.

          China has one legitimate fighter in the UFC so far, but this number won’t increase with empty flag-waving gestures like this. Now go change your username, gather a coherent argument to arm yourself with, and come on back.

          • vic2u

            You are a white dude living and working in China, may be or may be not.

            But I can tell that you are pushing China members to your way of thinking and it is most likely a whitey point of view.

            Teaching Chinese people in China the ways of the white man is so out of date and self serving.

            Go home before they find you, trolling reject of the west.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @vic2U: Dude? Do you even know what that means?

            I never mind feeding the trolls on my own stories since the comment amount keeps increasing, but really, the reason why I’m replying to you now is to completely burn you with your own fire. Burn you to embers and ash and ignorance.

            Okay: I’m a whitey (dude), I’m here (in cyberspace) and I’m espousing the ways of the Western world on this “Chinese” site (in cyberspace). I have distinctly said:“don’t use ignorance or bully tactics”. You have distinctly said, “Teaching Chinese people in China the ways of the white man is so out of date and self serving,” which means you don’t think what I think is true, ergo which means you think China should use “ignorance and bully tactics” to win arguments.

            How dare you, sir! How dare you hurt the feelings of all of China! How dare you insult the honorable and flag-waving people of China who don’t need to stoop to such despicable levels as you do! Who do you think you are, anyways?

            ARE YOU JAPANESE??????

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        Hi Canadian_Skies!

        I’m terroir, and I’m the one who contributed this article; I also wrote the headline.

        Now, if it isn’t evident from the article, there is most definitely a discussion going on in the comments section of this video (and also the 8-second KO video); and each and every commenter falls into one catagory or the other. While one person who objects to something isn’t quite worthy of being called “Questioned”, but I think a sizeable majority/segment that does do so is worth calling it such. Furthermore, the opposing segment those does velieve ti to be true usually take great pains to argue against the side that questions it; if they do not refute this argument, at the very least they legitimize it by taking it seriously and responding as such.

        Therefore, I believe the title of this piece stands.

  • http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1914680181 Elijah

    Wait a second…….

    Something here feels strange……

    Oh wait, just my silly capitalist running dog paranoia getting the best of me. I mean it’s ridiculous that this could have been set up to assuage the “feelings of the chinese people” (like they’re all 5 years old) or divert attention from “other” news….. I mean obviously the government would never pull out the “I hate Japan” card whenever they were under scrutiny, that would be just dishonest and lazy….

    And if there’s anything I’ve learned about chinese people and especially chinese officials, it’s that they’re never dishonest or lazy.

    Stupid Western propaganda education… Need to read the People’s Daily more often.

    [Note: The video is 3 months old and was not published until now. It was not used to divert attention from "other news". We delayed publishing it for "other news".]

    • carny

      “Oh wait, just my silly capitalist running dog paranoia getting the best of me”
      should have stopped there methinks..

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      Hi! I’m terroir, and as you can see by the title on the top of the page, I am the one responsible for this article. Now comrade, you may be thinking “Why?” or “Why not?” or “Why as why?” or some other permutation of the like, and I’m here to tell you what’s up.

      This story was completely last week Saturday. At the time I was doing it, I noticed some story of a train falling off a bridge, but I ignored it as I can pick my own material to write.

      Well, it turned out that little story was big news. Fauna devoted four days to that story, and my stories were shunted (!) to later on in the week; for example, my “time travelling woman” story was finished on Sunday, but only made it to publishing on Friday. The reason is obviously because there was an important story that required full coverage.

      Not to get Donald Rumsfield on you, but should there be more train coverage? Yes. Should a focus still be put upon the train wreck and its aftermath? Yes again. You are free to continue to comment on those stories on their individual posts; if you honestly want to, you can derail the discussion in this post (hey, everybody gets to be a jerk on the SMACK).

      There is no “conspiracy” to divert attention or to be some part of an evil machination. Hey, tomorrow’s chinaSMACK could even be yet another train story (like for example, a story on the Mini-tree of Troose’s kai-bosh on all media to stop reporting on the train accident story), but I don’t know: I’m not Fauna, I don’t get to choose which stories to publish. And still, after four or five stories SMACKers may start to complain about all the train coverage. “Why don’t you guys write about something else?”

      Finally, I can answer why I wrote this story: because I love MMA, and I think this is a significant story to tell. I translated everything, I wrote the intro, I made the screenshots and also the gifs. Besides being funny, I think this is rather interesting and I won’t apologize for having written this nor to have it published today or any other day.

      chinaSMACK is a news/tabloid blog, and what we do here is to entertain and inform and maybe educate; what we can do is sometimes help out a story/issue by focusing attention on it. I think this story should get attention just as the four stories about the train accident (and counting; I’m sure it isnt’ the last story).

      I’m not a Chinese official, nor am I paid like one. I don’t even have a mistress (the shame). But I contributed this story, and I stand by it.

      (no red box today, and I’ll be more irreverant in my next comment)

      • http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1914680181 Elijah

        Wow….. Take pill buddy.

        1) I don’t know what the timeline is except that this story was published after the train stories.

        2)Shockingly enough, most non-chinese don’t know what’s going on behind the Great Firewall.

        3)Even more shockingly, I like many of those other non-chinese follow chinaSmack as a valid portal into stories that aren’t so widely reported outside china.

        4)Seeing as how it’s china we’re talking about, is my original comment really out of context or order?

        5)I never said that chinaSmack was a government lackey. I have said before that “certain people” here have a habit of censoring comments that don’t fall under certain categories. However, that’s got nothing to do with this article.

        I was wrong about this being a snow-job, but that was because of the order in which the articles appeared… Oh well, move on.

        • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

          I’ve been apologized to better by worse people that you think you’re better than.

          People work on these stories you see on this website, and I’m just one of them. Speaking for myself, I worked hard on this story and I’m not going to let any insinuation sully it. Granted, this story is definitely not as important or significant in the long run as compared to what Fauna has been doing the past week or with other stories; besides national identity and pride, this story is just about about hot man-on-man action and mounting and dominating and what to talk about in showers after practice if it ever gets awkward in there. But: I did it, I picked the story, I translated the comments, I made the pics and gifs, I presented it in as best and objective way as possible. I think it’s a good story, and I’m going to back it up. I’m not going to pussy out like the house of cards that cnnGO is with their “century egg” fiasco. You don’t have to like it, you don’t have to believe it, but damnit, I’m not going to let you disrespect it without due cause.

          I’m not a reporter or a journalist, but if I was I’d say the previous.

          And now – we’re friends! And hey friend, be careful your use of “irony” and “ironic statements”; they’re a lot like elbows — they’re both attached to ARMS.

          • Dark Canuck

            Good call Terrior, love your work always have an interesting social commentary with a hilarious twist. Keep up the wood work.

          • HandsomeHuman

            I’m so touched by your comments. Please continue your great effort. *Cry with manly tears*

            btw, damn you Elijah! Get lost if you don’t like it!!

          • Tengu

            I’m with Dark Canuck, I always enjoy your writing, your responses, your damn relentless biting humor and your banter.

            Keep up the “wood work!”

          • Tengu

            Okay guys group hug?

          • http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1914680181 Elijah

            Holy shit…… People honestly don’t know how to follow one word after another until they have a concept (ie: read).

            1) You totally ignored all the points I made and yet made a bunch of adhominem attacks, good job on learning2debate.

            2) I didn’t use the terms irony or ironic AT ALL in either of my comments so good job on reading comprehension

            3) I didn’t attack this site or even imply something negative about this site, so good job on the victim mentality.

            4) If you disregard the train catastrophe or even take out “or divert attention from “other” news” from my original comment, the rest (ie: 95%) still applies completely, so good job on the common sense.

            5) I didn’t say a damn thing about the work you did or even this article being here…. I commented on the context of the article which is about a fight that was clearly staged where half the people are too blinded to see it. So good job on taking personal offence where none was given (to you).

            6) Why in the name of fuck would I apologize to anyone on the internet, when I don’t know anyone here and I don’t give a shit about them or what they think? Furthermore, why would I apologize when no apology is deserved? Good job on the sob-story.

            7) Do you realize just how much you write? There are articles here where it’s literally just you with verbal diarrhea covering half the comments section. Yes, you can be quite funny and make a good point. Honestly, if you’re going to write something on the internet for comments and traffic, then fucking write it and then shut up. It’s called chinaSmack, not “The Terroir Show” so good job on attention-whoring.

            8) When you create something for an audience (whether it’s cooking, writing, painting, singing etc.) it’s up to the audience to interpret what they think, not the creator. Maybe you were going for a different view and maybe some people agreed with that view, but surprise surprise, others didn’t. So good job on knowing your audience.

            Cry me a river.

          • http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1914680181 Elijah

            Don’t forget to ban me or censor this comment for

            not being racist against Asians (cause that would mean that all whiteys aren’t racist.)

            not being anti-china (cause that wouldn’t feed into the inferiority complex and “neo-colonialism” stereotype)

            not being fengqing (cause that wouldn’t start any flames and traffic might suffer)

            not being an apologist (cause common sense isn’t any fun and certainly doesn’t create traffic)

            There you go, now you have something to bitch about. Oh and great gifs. I only wish I had taken the time to go to an online site and make one for myself in 10 or 15 minutes.

            …

          • Tengu

            I guess that’s a “no-go” on the group hug!

          • Johnny Basic

            Elijah- verbal diarrhea you say? Well wide of the mark; verbal dysentery is more like it. Point 7 is exactly right.

            Presenting Terroir: the Anders Behring Breivik of the ChinaSmack comments section. Labouring under the misapprehension that his lengthy outpourings will inspire widespread admiration, doomed to disappointment when he realises that his solipsistic ramblings are ignored by the majority.

          • Just John

            Johnny Basic, how amusing you are.
            You go to length to sit there and call out terroir again and again, and end up saying “His comments are ignored by the majority”.

            What does that make you, the minority, always hounding his posts and trying to make plays on him by citing popular cultural references that you think he most “resembles” in his writings?

            While some may not “admire him”, I understand he is just trying to play around with words and lighten up heated arguments.

            It appears you give him the most credit, by repeatedly referencing him.

            Maybe you just have a secret mancrush on him that you are afraid will receive negative light in a homophobic world.
            It is like the little boy who picks on the girl because he does not know how to properly outlet his true emotional feelings.

            Do not worry, you can come out of the closet at any time. We will not judge you. Well, maybe a little…

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            Hi Elijah!

            It’s okay — we’re friends now! You said to “move on”, and that’s what friend do! Also, I think you made up to around point 4 or 5, so two comments with so much love is more than enough!

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Johnny Basic
            This is pretty awesome: I have a fan who reads all my material! Be sure to RSS feed my stories!

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Johnny Basic：
            Oh noes! There’s a terroir-ist in our midst! He’s terroir-izing us! He’s killing us with his jokes!

            This will not stand! This incident of (Johnny Basic’s) Whiney-Heaven will go down in infamy! Never again will such intellectual and political tolerance be tolerated! This is why we must pass the Hate-triot Act of 2011, so that we can eavestrough upon the houses of the minds of the people in order to collect any dissenting rain of differing thought!

            People: now, more than ever, with a terroir-ist in our midst, we must stifle anybody funny in amongst our ranks! No one is safe until we are “General-Lizas” like Johnny Basic, uniform in our ignorance and pettiness. We must draw lines in the sand! Because we are not trusted even with crayons!

            We will prevail! We are the status quo that challenges another status quo! Fight fire with fire, ignorance with ignorance; if our brute force of our big sticks shall not be enough, we shall use our brains — we will tie our brains to the ends of these sticks and use them as brain-maces!

            Thank you, and God Bless.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Tengu:
            Maybe if we strip down to our underwear and stand around in a circle in the woods, with the drums ever beating in rhythm rhytm RHYTHM oh the EARTH MOTHER BECKONS then maybe Elijah will get the hint.

            If not, then awkward glances.

          • Johnny Basic

            To further the Breivik analogy – resorting to desperate measures to reach a wider audience after previous efforts completely ignored:

            http://candosino.wordpress.com/

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Johnny Basic:
            Wow. I know I must be your god if you say I talk too much and also simultaneously promote my blog with your next breath.

            terroir is displeased, mere mortal! I require more self-contradictions from you! Splay thyself before me, and try again to explain a coherent point of view/make a lick of sense/be funny!

          • http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1914680181 Elijah

            If clothes are coming off then I demand KY in abundance, a bucket at least otherwise I’m not responsible for any injuries……

            Now let’s get this on.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            Sirrah,
            I distinctly said the word “hug”, and “hug” is not a four-letter word.

            Furthermore, I said the word “friend” — and you distinctly haven’t bought me dinner yet.

          • The Regulator

            Terroir,

            What a fucking gobshite you are.

          • Tengu

            Stop bringing Anders Behring Breivik into this, that prick killed kids disguised as a cop. Do you feel so threatened by Terroir’s comments and verbal barbs that you equate yourself to a kid face down in the dirt about to be shot by some nut? It’s a shitty analogy.

            Terroir is one of the “Chosen Ones” on ChinaSmack, love it or leave it, he busts balls, turns a great phrase, piles on a load of bullshit, but you have to admit that all in all, he’s a funny, pithy bastard and possesses a certain sadistic skill when involved in any repartee.

            I must say I love being in grandstand when the gauntlet is tossed down.

            Remember if you pull your sword from your sheath, blood is going to be spilled and don’t be upset when it’s yours.

            Who invented those “drum circles”, some guy in a pick-up truck with a “dream catcher” hanging from his mirror and a gun rack behind his seat.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Da Regular:
            Be sure to click on my link! You too can be consumed with impotent rage like Johnny Basic! Unbacked personal attacks are just one irrational step away from contradicting yourself!

            Don’t just cast groundless accusations… do it by being the biggest douchebag you can be! Show everyone the limits of your articulation and intelligence! Be jealous of terroir帅哥 and display the emptiness of your wit!

            So, for you, “The Regular”: is everytime I read a comment written by you on chinaSMACK to be construed as yet another “regular” bowel movement? Cause that’s shitty.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Tengu, and other cool dudes who got my back:

            Hey guys, thanks! I think what’s weird (and telling) in all this is that some of this wasn’t against my stories, or even against my point of view – it was this weird personal attack against some commenter who is moderate in his views but funny in his ways. I’d like to think that despite all the anarchy at chinaSMACK (oh, let face it: we love it FOR its anarchy) that there are decent people who may not agree with me, but are willing to hear me out/laugh at my jokes.

            And that’s what makes it all worth it, amigoes: that if even one decent human in amongst this strife can stand up for something that matters, say “I’m going to stand for a principle rather than be stupid/obnoxious/generalizing”, well then it’s worth it. Especially in this toxic environment where hatred and ignorance is always stronger.

            If that makes me a hippie, then pass the bong.

            @Tengu:
            I’m a bit reluctant to take on the mantle of “Chosen One(s)”; it’s not like I’m Eddie Murphy post-Beverly Hills Cop and picked his next role to be in what could have been the unrepentent bomb “The Golden Child”.

          • The Regulator

            Terroir, yes it is telling that noone is criticizing the article (except for the usual Miss-the-Point Patrol), which was as interesting as ever. People are criticizing you because you fill up the comments with self-indulgent, facetious, blowhard rubbish, and basically come across as a silly prick in need of a slap. You run amok in the comments section like a tubby 小皇帝 in McDonalds.

            So to qualify what I said before: you prance and posture like a fucking gobshite, when you clearly don’t need to. So just wind your neck in a little.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @ da Regular: I love it. Trolls and blowbacks are trying to school me on the very sanctity of the hallowed chinaSMACK comments section, where reasoned, and rational discourse are the order of the day. Mental image: we’re in a library where someone in a group “SHHhhh!” me very harshly, only to go back to their serious discussion of being extremist, stupid, ignorant and blessed by anonymity.

            “Sir, you… you can’t make jokes in here.”
            “Well, why not?”
            “Because… it’s funny.”

            My God… it sounds like you actually believe the seriousness of your own bowel movements. Speaking of which, I got your name wrong – it isn’t “The Regular” but ”The Regulator”, so you’re not a turd dropping, you’re the device that controls it – you’re a sphincter.

            Thanks for the compliment on the story though! Subscribe to my stories! My next one is a doozy!

          • Jones

            ChinaSMACK’s comment section is filled with 90% Inferiority Complex sufferers and 10% Brilliance.

            Who’s the 10%? I mean, besides me. That’s the obvious one. But who else?

            I vote Terroir.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Jones: Damn… I’m not worthy. Still, all the outpouring of negative response to my jokes (oh, but your stories are awesome!) took me aback — who am I, Christina H from Cracked? I am funnier, but it’s not fair to compare chinaSMACK to Cracked – one is a thoughtful analysis of topical issues of the day, and the other one is the “master of hilarity” that is chinaSMACK. What is it with that other website? If chinaSMACK tossed in a “fuck” here and there and a bucketload of stock images and thoughtfully listed things from smallest to largest (always starting with the number “1″, though), we’d have their numbers….

            It’s rather kind of you to say nice words, fellow anonymous human on teh interwebs. I never actually know if anyone’s laughing — I only know if I have disturbed their hate-on by disrupting the delicate balance that hatemongers require to “get it up”; so, as a token of my esteem, my next chinaSMACK story, whenever it’s published, is a shout out to you and the other nice fellows here who are kind enough to stand up and say, “Humor is funny.”

            Man, crackin’ jokes at chinaSMACK is like a white comic at the Apollo… 13 mission center saying, “But they say phrases like that all the time in rap videos! ‘Ho’s-town, we be havin’ problems!’”

          • Jones

            Haha Christina H is alright. No one beats Seanbaby, though. ChinaSMACK needs its own Man Comics series.

            Considering the amount of people here with a sense of humor, having two or three people laughing is great work. This place is a big magnet for bunched-up panties.

        • The Regulator

          There’s certainly something in the Breivik analogy when it comes to your silly, crass delusions of grandeur.

          Sorry, but there’s no fascist clampdown being waged – it’s just that your laboured, sub-ironic witterings are simply not funny.

          • The Regulator

            And furthermore, whether or not the majority of Chinasmack comments are ignorant, puerile, credulous and dumb (which they are of course) is totally beside the point.

            If I was stuck in a confined space with the most repulsive bunch of racists and psychopaths imaginable, I’d still want to give the shrill, spoilt little emperor lardball a well-earned slap.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @ Regular Cup of Coffee: Well, you know what the say about children: it was one who pointed out the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes.

            “Look mommy, behind his threat to use physical force, that man has nothing! He doesn’t even have a leg to stand on!”

            Yup, the Regulator has got his priorities straight… if something is ignorant and dumb, keep it that way, and by God, won’t someone think of the children? We need to punish them before racists and psychopaths!

          • The Regulator

            Increasingly desperate. You don’t like being called out do you.

            Hiding behind an anonymous internet persona to turn all the glib phrases you come up with in your oceans of idle time, and to spout all your repressed witterings, knowing full well that they’d provoke derision and yawns in real life.

            It’s the knowledge that you’d get labelled a prick and that you’re not particularly appreciated in real life that fuels your interminable ‘zany’ witterings.

            All fact, as you know.

            88

          • Jones

            I always laugh when people try to call out someone for their “anonymous postings” while they, themselves, are posting anonymously. It’s a great go-to when you’ve got nothing else to say. Of course, if you’ve got thesaurus.com open in another tab, and maybe dictionary.com (just to double-check) in another, you could possibly craft something that, at least, appears different.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            Q: What’s black and white and red all over?
            A: The Regulator’s hand after preferring to beat a child over racists and psychopaths that is covered in ink and talcum powder.

            Q: What has four legs and a trunk?
            A: The Regulator on his belly crawling through the grass, pushing a case with a disciplined child at the edge of the lake at dusk.

            Q: What goes “beep-beep, beep-beep”?
            A: An amber alert after the Regulator has been in too many crowded elevators.

            Q: Why did the Regulator cross the road?
            A: Because they were racist and psychopaths on his side, and a small, vulnerable child that required his act of physical force as a substitute for his abilty to reason.

            Q: Knock knock.
            A: Stop it, the Regulator! He’s only seven years-old!

      • Johnny Basic

        ‘Humor is funny.’

        Except when it’s not funny. And especially when it’s not funny and repeated ad nauseum in an attempt to show off.

        Just like you, Benny Hill wasn’t very funny, but I suppose the thought of you hunched over your keyboard chuckling gormlessly over your own jokes, but speeded up and with the Benny Hill theme music playing, is funnier than anything you’ve come up with so far.

        Presenting Terroir; the Benny Hill of the ChinaSmack comments section. Hmm wait…doesn’t really work. After all he could be ever so slightly amusing sometimes.

        • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

          Benny Hill… I knew there would be a cultural touchstone between our great cultures! You keep saying “Presenting terroir as…”, but when the things you keep comparing me to don’t compare with each other, then how do I compare to them? I don’t, and as long as it’s amusing to you and your namesake. Please call me Hitler next so that you won’t have any further ramping up of examples to go.

          It’s too easy to make fun of your name, so I’ll talk about this line: “Humor is funny”. It absolutely is; even if you don’t think a joke is funny, it’s still a joke – and on the other hand, if a joke is racist or sexist, well that it is – and a joke as well.

          It’s like saying “Opinions are personal”, and they are; it doesn’t matter if you disagree with an opinion or not, it’s still an opinion – just like when it is erroneously said, “Your opinion is wrong,” this is a fallacy because it’s what someone believes – how can a belief be wrong? It’s a belief.

          And so getting back to humor; humor is funny, just as money is riches and knowledge is power and awareness is sadness and ignorance is bliss. Now, you don’t think my jokes are funny, and you (and my other fans) react vehemently to them. But, it isn’t my humor that you all disagree with – it’s my use of humor. It’s the fact that I dare at all to laugh at the fallacy of the false dichotomy of the language that goes around here that serves your own needs. I’m not laughing at any one issue – I’m laughing at the ridiculousness of the status quo that some of you have adopted as the basis of your convictions – and I’m tearing it all down by pointing out the ridiculousness of it all.

          The point isn’t whether or not you get my jokes – it’s the fact that I dare to laugh in the face of your hate-on that you lose all temerity and thus have a flaccid argument.

          It’s very telling that no one so far has said “you’re wrong” – especially when I rarely make my beliefs known, though it happens, but as I’ve said before, I don’t care if you agree with me or not, I just here in the most dangerous place for opinions for the yuks.

          chinaSMACK has had some good commenters here – off the top of my head, Kai and Andy B (I think he’s here now), and even PUSAN PLAYA who, while a troll, is funny and honest. Even look at Elijah on this page; I have my disagreement with him, air it out, finish off with a homosexual reference – bang! It’s over like 10 minutes in a public toilet. But you guys, it’s a deeper, darker thing that you can’t fess up to.

          There can be conversation here. But when the rhetoric is ridiculous, so do I; and when the arguments used against me are nothing but intimidation and brute force, well then of course I’ll laugh at you – you have nothing, and will get nothing.

          What is humor to you? Because I picture you hunched over your keyboard chuckling gormlessly as you try your best to slander someone with no arguments, reasons, or basis – and I imagine THIS must be funny to you, except its no joke. I know your weakness: you need hate to be strong. You hate me, and yet you don’t even know me. And, I’ll keep being humorous, whether you think it’s funny or not.

          Here, have an Adrian Mole reference: “Red Sock Revolution!”

          • The Regulator

            Christ almighty Terroir…

            What part of ‘noone likes a smartarse’ don’t you understand?

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            “What part of ‘noone likes a smartarse’ don’t you understand?”

            Probably the part after “the more self-righteous someone becomes, the less righteous they actually are.”

            As you’re all out of material (threat of physical force, resorting personal attacks, not responding to arguments posed, and now just asking me directly as if I’ll finally say, “Yeah, no one’s actually asked me directly!”), I imagine the nazi references are next (had a Brevik reference above, though), but I’m all ready for that!

            “Ja, my grandfather died in a concentration camp when he fell down from a guard tower while on duty.”

          • The Regulator

            The important thing is that you’re fully aware of what a twat you sound like. It’s clear that the derision you’ve inspired has left you butthurt- you’ve made that abundantly clear, by the way you’ve *finally* managed to drop the aren’t-I-fucking-smart facetiousness, and replaced it with butthurt snivelling.

            But you’re nothing if not a fast learner. I see from your comment in the Norway story, you’ve managed to keep the attention-seeking delusions-of-adequacy spume to an acceptable minimum! *Well done*!

            Job done.

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            @Rglr: If you have a comment for me on the Norway prison story, there’s a place for it: it’s on that actual page.

            In times past, the way someone could show their devotion is by wearing their locket, or a varsity jacket. I suppose in these modern times, following me around with maniacal persistence on each thread, scanning for my name – in longing – well, I suppose it’s enough to show that we’re going steady. Our relationship has even gotten to the nagging/back-handed compliment part .. I suppose this is the part when I ask you stupendously, “Are you mad at me?” and then you go “Well what do you think?” and pout.

            That’s when I say, “Aw, I can’t stay mad at you!” It’s true: your mouth is pretty when you pout.

        • Jones

          I really do feel bad for people without a sense of humor.

  • GodsHammer

    YJP is a tough guy! I have seen a few matches of his. He’s very impressive physical specimen. The aerial pass was very nice as well. It’s not a reflection on him …BUT…
    The match is not fixed but it is poorly made. The Japanese guy is nobody special and is probably a part-timer but as in most laowai matches he has been awarded/credited with extra accolades and experience to make the Chinese fighters accomplishment seem even greater.
    The true tragedy is that there are Chinese fighters fighting in foreign organizations against proper adversaries (and winning and losing) and they get far less domestic attention than the spoon-fed hometown hero.

    • Xiongmao

      Are you referring to boxing and stuff? Don’t worry, we’ve known for a LONG time how to seperate the McNeely’s from the Douglasses.

  • do_sex_machina

    8 second KO > armbar submission

  • CobraKai

    These kind of chinese netizens shows that:

    1. Chinese fuckers doesn’t give fuck about anything besides Sanda. (And truly believes Sanda is the ultimate style of martial arts)
    2. Chinese don’t know fuck about fightsports nor MMA.
    And can’t care less to educate themselves about that.
    3. Chinese nationalism is fucking awkward.

    • lonetrey

      as a chinese guy, I am sad that I have to agree with you.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      “Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?”
      “Pain does not exist in this dojo, does it?”
      “Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?”

      You monster. Just how do you practice martial arts?
      “Sweep the leg”, Johnny!

  • Jones

    He’s ready for the WWF.

    • B-real

      are you saying that because he of Panda descent?

      • Jones

        HAAA! I get it.

  • patriot (aka We Never Left!)

    God Chinamen make me sick! They are like savage, dirty apes whith no humanity. We should have bombed China along with Japan in 1945 and made them our slaves.

    Chinaman vs. Jap for whose penis is smaller hahahaha! Even though I secretly hate Japs, I hate those commies more so I guess I’m on the Jap’s side.

    If only the Japs and Chinamen would kill each other in real life – then we wouldn’t have to worry about these Asians taking over the world.

    • vic2u

      “Show compassion to your enemies, that they may find it within themselves.” Codex Anima.

      If you can’t than go put your shitty head on a railroad track and be free of “these Asians taking over the world.”

    • Just John

      Patriot,
      Aww, did someone piss in your Wheaties this morning?
      Did you job just get outsourced?
      Did you wife leave you because after loosing your job, you sat around watching TV in your white t-shirt, growing a beard, and start seeing how many beers you could drink in 1 day if you started at 8:00 am?

      Just keep on (t)rolling along, some day someone might actually pick something intelligent out of your words. They may have to use a translator though (Since most of us do not speak Moron).

    • Tengu

      Ummm, yeah, that bombing thing was awesome.

      Really made them your slaves. How’s your technology sector and automotive business.

      Aw so sad, Sony, Toyota, Honda…even the Koreans have a better market share of the auto business.

      “Japs and Chinamen”…you 12 years old or just intellectually challenged?

      You sound like a redneck from the south who’ll be making comparisons uppity between Northern blacks and “our negroes” who know their place.

      You’re a gem, if anyone is suffering from “tiny dick syndrome”…

    • http://jogiff@gmail.com jogiff

      “Even though I secretly hate Japs”

      Well, I guess you aren’t very good at keeping secrets.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        The “secret” part is him lying to himself.

    • Sunshine

      This troll is very close to being full.
      Keep at it guys!

    • bomber

      Korean guy, is that you?

  • Leo

    Now that’s a lot of butthurt netizens.

    So much bitterness and hatred among Chinese, both young and old, are you mental? Are you capable of doing anything other than complaining and then not doing anything about it? All fart and no shit.

    Most of these Chinese males (I’m assuming they’re male) sound like angry post menopausal old spinsters. I keep imagining a bunch of Betties in their snuggies logging onto their youku accounts and flaming away. GLADYS U MAD?

    • We Never Left! (aka patriot)

      So true. Asian males are just butthurt that they can’t get Asian women like White guys can. They are a bunch of yellow apes.

      Black men look like gorrillas, Asian men look like catfish. White men are juuuust right.

      • cb4242

        Well, that’s your twisted opinion, but you have good looking men in every race, believe me, I have seen some horrible looking whites, really. Some women love Asian men or Black or White men, just depends on your preference.

        • Leo

          Who wouldn’t want to be in a man sandwich between these two hunks?

          • Tengu

            I could do without the “manwich”, but that’s just me Leo, whatever floats your boat…I support you.

            Was “flaming away” unintentional perfection or did you plan that.

            “Betties” or “Nellies”?

          • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

            A heterosexual man. Or, the referee.

      • Tengu

        “Catfish?” Seriously?

        • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

          You know the ol’ Southern saying: “The best way to catch a China-man is by noodlin’”.

  • WerkinTianjin

    I used to help my MMA friends train for fights in Guam and Hawaii and a few of them are now in the UFC on the mainland. The first fight looks authentic enough and that aerial pass is questionable IMHO, looks like maybe he was looking to side mount the Japanese fighter. The Japanese fighter did exactly what many experienced MMAs might have done. No faking it with this fight. Now the Japanese fighter being a “champion”… that is questionable.

    Definitely Chinese guys/people know nothing about MMA and don’t care to learn. That is NOT questionable!

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      Yes. It’s that old Confucius saying, “10% questionable is still 100% Chinese-acceptable.”

      Where are the MMA nerds? They’d calculate you out of an inch of your life for your nonsensical ramblings.

  • SteveLaudig

    From the movie “Miller’s Crossing”
    Giovanni Gasparo speaking: “It’s gettin’ so a businessman can’t expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can’t trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return,you gotta go bettin’on chance, and then you’re back with anarchy. Right back in the jungle.”

    • King Tubby

      True, and nobody gives Johnny Casper the high hat either!

  • Chuck Norris

    The “Japanese Champion” realized he was going to get his ass kicked so he faked the loss. Managers always try to find weak opponents for theirs fighters. Sometimes too weak.

  • Danny

    I Feel like watching one of those Jackie Chen movie.

    • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

      No, Jackie Chan’s movies look more real…

      • Danny

        on second though, you’re right.

  • civilization

    of coures i am a amateur, but it’s too fake, chinese fighter didn’t start fighting,,, and lost his consciousness,, heh i was shocked

  • Jess

    Now, I don’t really get the appeal of this “sport,” and I think it’s all a bit silly. But…those are some nice bodies. Want to touch… > _ <

    Elijah's comment made me laugh~ x )

  • http://www.qq.com/1325279774 Kedafu

    Song of the Article

    Supermoves (Animatrix remix)
    -Rob Overseer

    wumaodang

  • Xiongmao

    They occasionally show martial arts competitions on TV. Last one I saw was 6 bouts of Kung Fu against Muay Thai -supposedly Thai “champions”. It was amazing, ALL the Chinese Kung Fu practitioners won, effectively showing the Greatness of China over the Inferior little Thai people. Oh how glorious. That is of course if: You don’t know anything about politics, sports or muay thai. Although Kung Fu CAN be quite effective, anyone who knows a little about martial arts can tell you that equally trained, skilled and qualified fighters in a KF vs MT match will result in a 9 out of 10 times win for muay thai, if not higher.

    • Rick in China

      Sanda is pretty badass. Muay Thai is excellent practice for stand-up, and learning both is always better…but if it’s MMA and MMA rules I don’t think a Muay Thai fighter will win 9 out of 10 – they learn pretty much no defense to take-downs, and take-downs are a big part of San Da. You have to understand one thing: San Da fights and Muay Thai fights operate under different rules. Occasionally San Da guys will fight Muay Thai guys under MT rules, or the other way around, but those are never going to be truly ‘fair’ ways to judge which style is superior. It has to be truly MMA, where both style’s high points are allowed.

      • Bomber

        This is a misnomer. There are no superior “styles” only superior fighters. People do not study and invent combat arts for “competition” ” with “rules.”

        Fighting and combat are not about shiny medals and podiums. They are about killing / disabling another human being. TCMA has a lot to offer in terms of self defense, but when it comes to reality-based combat training, I’ll take Muay Thai, Western wrestling, boxing and Judo as good starting points.

        • Rick in China

          Bullshit. There are superior styles, and while combat arts were not invented for competition, competitions certainly allow people to practice with the intent of demonstrating and improving skill. Rules are applied to prevent long-term injury. Rules that obviously do not apply to real life fights, but without them, would make competition implausible, and if competition isn’t available, training itself would be hindered greatly; hence every style having rules *FOR COMPETITION*.

          Fighting and combat styles, for the most part, is about avoiding a fight in the first place. If one is forced into a fight, it’s about defending and escaping. Each sport you mention is extremely ONE dimensional. Yes – perhaps strong in their singular dimension, *with the appropriate rules and limitations*, but without other complementary practices are generally inferior to a more balanced style, LIKE SANDA. People don’t decide to learn self-defense or competition sport and say, “Hm.. I think I’ll start with Muay Thai, wrestling, boxing, and judo” – to learn any one of those to any competency takes focus for a significant amount of time.

  • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

    It gets tedious at times posting on chinaSMACK when people don’t actually get what you’re writing about. People will see a sensation title, not read the content and just say what is already in their preconceptions.

    What chinaSMACK offers isn’t just translated Chinese internet content so that you can see just what the average Chinese internet users sees online, but also translates netizen comments so you can read what they are thinking.

    And in the case of this story, it’s very clear what’s going on: there is a massive rift between netizens who doubt the veracity of these two fights, and the ones who don’t doubt it. The ones who don’t believe these are real fights are called “traitors” and “Japanese”, but this doesn’t deter their thinking. Instead, these users try to use reason and logic to get their point across, and also try to raise the bar in terms of truth and national self-awareness.

    It’s subtext: it’s what isn’t said in the story that I feel many readers miss. They come to chinaSMACK to affirm their long established beliefs, and then try to troll in the comments when they’ve obviously just ignored the content of the story (as well as those fabulous gifs! Aren’t they fabulous?)

    This is just my own opinion, but hey, since you don’t agree with me, “are you Japanese?”

    • Just John

      Well, terroir, this is also compounded by how in the comments section, you see someone clear up an issue/issues being addressed, the reaction, or something else, only to later down in the comments read someone commenting when they apparently don’t realize it has already been cleared up.

      I can point you to how many people will make comments about “This is not real news”, and fail to read again and again when it is reiterated that this is not a news blog, this is a “This is popular in China, so we are posting it” blog. It is a “what people are talking about and what they are saying” blog.

      I could point out many of these, but it just goes to show that your opinion is absolutely correct, about more then just the translated comments.

      It appears that sometimes peoples reading comprehension (probably because they don’t bother to read) and thinking ability (because they don’t take the time to make sure they know what they are talking about) fail and they just start typing whatever pops off the top of their head.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        I’m part of chinaSMACK, so a) I’m ivery familiar with how things work around here, and b) am automatically involved in the pantheon of the ultra-cool chinaCHIC. But hey, I know some people “get” what happens around here, but since it’s never explicitly said I feel I can’t be obvious enough about this.

        “China is great; China is a dream; China is an empire; China is an illusion” — whatever. China as a theme and a topic and an argument, whatever it is, it always illicits a deep emotional response in no matter who you talk to about it (ehh, maybe not the Finns…). People are smart and educated and informed, and I’d never presuppose to educate anyone on these boards as people here are all already “educated” by themselves.

        Yet, when I do these stories I’m never really depressed or angry or sad; I think by watching the news about China one can definitely get upset by this. I think I said so before, I once sat next to a guy at a dinner who’s opening line to me was “China has no culture whatsoever”; yeah, it turned out to be a shitty dinner.

        But. China does have a culture. China is not all one homogenous mass with one solitary opinion. I’m not suggesting one thing or another, I’m just saying what I read in these stories — there’s a dialogue going on now in China. People are talking. People are exchanging ideas. There is a change, and amongst other things, it’s a change in how Chinese think and act and react and talk.

        I made a previous entry about the “dog BBQ’ed alive”, and the headline I wanted was “netizens furious” because that’s what the big news to me was: that even though the pictures depicted horrible animal cruelty (whether or not that dog was alive, which really is inconsequential), but rather that a dialogue is going on — people are making a stand and believing in something, and then saying it online to other netizens.

        As disturbing as the “puppy drowning in a pool” story was, it’s the same thing: yeah, this kind of thing happens in china, whoo-ey it reflects poorly on Chinese, but it’s all made up by the fact that Chinese netizens turned out in droves to denounce the animal torturers.

        So now, this: while someone can easily say, “So fake, so typical of Chinese” they’re actually missing the big picture — that there was a huge flame war on Youku where two sides can’t agree. In China.

        Disagreeing is disharmonious and chaotic, but not confronting the truth is even worse. As you can see, there exists an air of openness and desire for truth that unfortunately doesn’t exist at times in chinaSMACK comments.

        Enjoy the GIFs.

  • bah

    This Sakano Nozomi guy is not even a professional fighter. Just search on the web or get a look to sherdog.com. Other than that, that superman style guard pass looks real to me, just completely useless. (Google Marius Zaromskis.. backflip guard pass @__@, and he is a pro fighter)

  • Justin

    Mixed martial arts is about the gayest thing that ever gayed. Two sweaty guys rolling around on the floor grunting.

    • Choonage

      Hah well said. That and greco roman wrestling.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      Yeah, “gay” MMA is nothing like the macho hetero sports of two men slow dancing in the middle of a ring (boxing), or a bunch of thespians who get to kick a ball every once in a while when they’re not acting (football), or a bunch of pansies all just trying to run home (baseball).

      Dem’s skill in that grunting! What, do you think that sweat is automatic? That’s sweat of a world-class champion that being rubbed all over your face!

  • Alex

    What’s so surprising? Every once in a while on Chinese TV they show a chinese “champion” fighting with a foreign fighter. This foreign fighter is either an amateur starting, a retired one that wants to fight again, or a recovering injured one.

    So the chinese always wins, and boost the stupid nationalism they have in the lamest way possible.

  • MonkeyMouth

    that japanese guy, or that other japanese guy doesnt even have muscle tone. out of shape little twerps, the both of them. i dont know about, nor do i care about MMA. idiotic. but i do know that if i spilled beer on any of those fighters at a bar, i wouldnt worry about the consequences. i understand why terroir put it up. i get it. its because china has no culture at all…..haha

  • GodsHammer

    Not all of the people in this country are totally brainwashed…however 80% have a Pavlovian response when it comes to the J-word.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      Agreed… but you know, when you can’t hear the melody, everything those be-boppers play just sound pretentious and pedantic.

  • ba

    LOL CHINESE COMMENTERS TRYING TO TALK MMA. Ive noticed this far to often with chinese people. They try to sound like a know-it-all for almost every subject. I especially love the guy who calls out China’s advancement in “wrestling”, as well as the guy who mentions sanda.Anyways that was a sexy and flashy move by the chinese fighter, but if it went wrong then he could have gotten pulled into closed guard or maybe thrown off balance. But it worked nonetheless. He should go into the UFC and get more recognition, THEN he might actually bring china “pride and honour” for the 1.4 billion people hahaha.

  • eattot

    it looked cool!
    i wish i can play kongfu too! hehe!

  • http://unblockfacebookinchina.info/vpn-in-china Rod

    WTF cares? Fighters fight and people act like who wins means that the country’s better. Sport is sport. Politics is politics.

  • http://raccoontrap.org Raccoon Trap

    The Americans seem to have the very best fighters out of all the martial arts in todays world. The UFC takes on all comers regardless of the style.

    The Chinese had the very best fighter of all time – “Bruce Lee”

    • Rick in China

      That’s a big statement – also, not all the best UFC fighters have been Americans.

      Actually, the UFC itself was started by the Gracies (and a US guy).. *they* are all bad ass fighters. UFC was originally intended on promoting Brazilian Jujitsu, they took their *smallest* brother – Royce, and put out a challenge: ANYONE, any weight class, any style, and see if your style is better than ours. They won. Repeatedly. They’re Brazilian :D Rickson is the badass of the family.

  • Rick in China

    I’ve an interest in MMA. I know a Czech fighter who fights Sanda, MT, and K1 rules and tried to fight in China – unfortunately, according to him, fights were *rigged*. Supposed champions here who basically also act as match coordinators, setting up matches which give them pretty easy victories – and he couldn’t get the fights he tried for. I met with him and one of these so-called champions who tried to coordinate a fight for him (tried, more like talked with and befriended but fell flat every time) and it was *clear* that even when my friend just wanted a friendly match with friends watching and no video involved (ie just honor) “I’ll be out of town” was all that we could muster.

    That being said, Sakano Nozomi, WHO? I tried to find any information on this Jap Champ and come up blank. Nonsense, there’s no fight here, just more of the same amateur cheating the kiddies who need their ego boosted.

    • Kelly

      i believe you are a spy of Japan, maybe of America.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        Rick, your covers been blown – it’s a well-known fact that there’s no such thing as Sanda! It’s all a ruse to expose you!

  • bomber

    This is awesome. Glad to see some Chinese netizens aren’t so easily fooled. I can only hope that the Censors will stop treating the Chinese people like effete children and let some real, worldwide fighting sports (MMA, K-1, boxing, etc.) take hold in China – even if that means the unthinkable – that a Chinese fighter might lose a fight (to a white devil, or worse a Japanese) and then lose face for the nation of China and all the Chinese people in the universe!

  • Mechanized

    hehe ….. rarely seen or performed “aerial pass”

    well if you know anything about MMA…. then you’d know that this is rarely seen or performed now because the guard is pretty much a dead position and people don’t really stay (or are they allowed) on their backs waiting for an opponent to attack them like in the early days of PRIDE or UFC.

    WAR KAZUSHI SAKURABA!

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      I was hoping someone would notice that… I didn’t know what else to call it as it doesn’t exist. Also, how did the Chinese fighter give up a fully-mounted position?

      It must be the burns from punching his poor industrial-grade dyed hair. I’ve seen ripe tomatoes that are less prone to burst than that Japanese melon.

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  • gabriel

    are they even in the same weight division? seems they just put the chinese fighter up against some really easy competition.

    • Paul

      I love MMA and have watched it for years. There is no way the Japanese is a champion, he made amateurish mistakes. I have trained a bit of jiu-jitsu (maybe at a blue-belt level, but never received a belt) and see obvious mistakes.

  • masaru

    someone please Sherdog search even Google this “Japanese champion” and please tell if you find anything about him ASIDE FROM this sad excuse of a fight………champion??? as a friend said, “maybe champion of hotdog eating…”

    • Paul

      I looked him up on Sherdog’s fight finder (which has pretty much every relevant MMA fighter listed with their records and the outcome of each fight. No results for the Japanese guy. Pretty clearly an amateur (at best).

  • Koreansentry

    Looks like match was setup for showman ship. Most Japanese MMA matches are staged.

    • Livin The Laowai Life

      I don’t think it was a staged fight, but it was definitely an unfair match. The Japanese guy was no champion and was completely out classed. You can tell he had very little training on the ground; He never tried a proper sweep. It was like watching a high school band geek getting beat up by the captain of the wrestling team. I live in China and have done a bit of training in wrestling, jiu jitsu and muay thai. Whenever I go to a new gym the guys are generally impressed, especially with my ground game, and ask me if I am interested in taking a fight. Just last week I was offered 5000 rmb to fight, but was told I would have to “throw” the fight. I told him no thank you. I have a daughter and don’t need the money.

  • Shao

    Fake. I can’t believe this is even a debate. Just look at how many times the man on bottom has the opportunity to replace guard. Look how much space top man leaves. It’s damn near impossible for bottom to NOT replace guard.

  • kodi

    This is the only fight I have ever seen where there is “only” one Chinese guy fighting with a foreigner. Commonly there would be at least 6-10.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Puckett/100000570398011 Steve Puckett

    My son is 16 years old and 140 lbs. a two time National (USA) Pankration champion, holds 3 Black belts. He could easily take either one of these poor fighters. The Japanese was only the “Champion” in some promoters mind.

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