Fedor may have ended Ishii's MMA career

New thread worthy on this Monday. Flame away Josh and BBC.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/1/30/2758290/mma-news-satoshi-ishii-fedor-emelianenko-cerebral-edema-retirement
According to reports coming out of Japan, Fedor did more than finish
Ishii in that one fight, he may have ended his MMA career. Fight Opinion
has the details:

Japanese weekly publication Cyzo reports
that doctors have told Ishii that he suffered a cerebral edema from the
NYE beating. As a result, he was warned that any further blows to the
head would cause some serious damage. As Cyzo put it, Ishii is facing a
retirement crisis. There had been some discussion that he would face
Ricardo Arona in late March in Brazil but that fight didn't look to be
in the cards. After this latest development, the MMA prospects for Ishii
look to be bleak as well.

Now sadly it appears that Ishii's once-promising career may have been
ended by Antonio Inoki's decision to book him against Fedor, still a
very dangerous fighter if no longer the best in the world.

Zach Arnold tells the tale of Ishii's career in the full entry.






From Fight Opinion:

After the retirement of Hidehiko Yoshida, Satoshi Ishii was supposed
to be the golden boy to become the new face, the new Japanese icon of an
MMA scene that desparately needed a new hero from the Olympic judo
world. Ishii, still a young man, had the advantage of being backed by
K-Dash, the entertainment powerhouse company associated with Antonio
Inoki and operated by Tatsuo Kawamura, a well-known entertainment player
who just happened to go to school with the late Hiromichi Momose, the
original Godfather of PRIDE.

Even with this management advantage,
Ishii managed to screw his golden ticket to make serious cash in the
fight game. He was never comfortable with the climate that was created
for his presence in Japan. He showed up at press conferences and
demonstrated goofy behavior. Rather than fans liking his quirky nature,
he got booed and booed without mercy. He quickly became a pariah.
Instead of being cheered as the next big thing, he was treated by the
fans like a sworn and hated enemy. He fought a few squash matches and
then managed to see his career implode on NYE 2010 against Jerome Le
Banner. The fans cheered hard for Le Banner and booed Ishii without
mercy for going to a decision.

Ishii promptly left Japan and sent
many mixed signals. It was leaked in newspapers that he was going to
become an American citizenship and that he had relocated to Los Angeles.
He ended up getting married to a young Japanese girl and, nine months
after marriage, promptly got divorced. He was supposed to fight on a
Strikeforce card in Stockton but had visa troubles. He focused on
training at Reign MMA (Mark Munoz's gym) and Black House in Southern
California with Ed Buckley. Then, out of nowhere, reports surfaced that
Ishii was going to be at the Olympic judo tryouts in Orlando, Florida in
hopes of representing the United States one day. Like everything else,
that didn't pan out. So, Ishii fought Paulo Filho soon in Brazil. That
set up a fight offer against Fedor on NYE, taken at the very last
minute. Predictably, Tokyo Broadcasting System said ‘no' to covering the
Inoki-themed NYE event, thus defeating the purpose of having Ishii on
the card given that he was never a strong live-house gate attraction.
Fedor pummeled Ishii in Saitama and may have short-circuited an MMA
career that is full of would-have-been and could-have-been scenarios.

DAMN

When did he have a career?

Nonsense says MMA legend, Ryo "The Shark" Chonan

http://www.mmamania.com/2012/1/31/2761549/ryo-chonan-fedor-emelianenko-satoshii-ishii-brain-damage

Quote :

Ishii's friend and training partner Ryo Chonan says (via The Garv) "Satoshi Ishii is just fine" and that "the people who spread these false rumors about other people's lives and livelihoods should just die."

Looks like M-1 was trying to hype Fedor up LOL!

bobbitt15 wrote:

Nonsense says MMA legend, Ryo "The Shark" Chonan

http://www.mmamania.com/2012/1/31/2761549/ryo-chonan-fedor-emelianenko-satoshii-ishii-brain-damage

Quote :

Ishii's friend and training partner Ryo Chonan says (via The Garv) "Satoshi Ishii is just fine" and that "the people who spread these false rumors about other people's lives and livelihoods should just die."

Lol...awesome quote

Sato Ishii is slated to fight Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou on March 31st at Amazon Forest Combat.

http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Satoshi-Ishii-41887

Could be a good fight.

GDPofDRC wrote:

Sato Ishii is slated to fight Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou on March 31st at Amazon Forest Combat.

http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Satoshi-Ishii-41887

Could be a good fight.

Interesting matchup.