Dreams uses pearl harbor images to sell mma fued with SF

http://www.mmamania.com/2010/6/2/1497843/raise-your-flag-dream-uses-pearl#storyjump



Holy shit I watched it and I didn't even realize it. How fucked up is that. And here I was giving all kinds of props to Dream fuck them.

I watched the video of Nick's fight. I was pretty sure that they used it there. Let me find the video.

Lol when I was watching that whole montage I just kind of sat in silence

Next SF event we need to show the bomb going off in hiroshima.

I guess they took the video down, weird it was up on mmamania.com

I don't know if I'm more pissed at them for pulling that shit or myself for not noticing.

GolbeZ wrote:

Fuck Yeah GolbeZ! I wish they would show video of that shit at the next SF then show a big hand giving the finger.

mushroom cloud these sacks of shit

The American won and they cheered him. Bad taste? Yes. But no hate in this IMO.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

The American won and they cheered him. Bad taste? Yes. But no hate in this IMO.

I agree. It was a Japanese vs American, and they were trying to play that angle. But it was quite fucked up. But the American won so it ended up historically correct.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

The American won and they cheered him. Bad taste? Yes. But no hate in this IMO.

I see what your saying but if we would have used the bomb video first at a SF event the Japs would be having a fucking cow. I think it's way out of bounds to use actual war footage to hype a fight.

Is there a thing between SF and DREAM? Thought they were friends. This is all for shock value. Don't buy into this garbage.

MMAEYES wrote:

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

The American won and they cheered him. Bad taste? Yes. But no hate in this IMO.

I see what your saying but if we would have used the bomb video first at a SF event the Japs would be having a fucking cow. I think it's way out of bounds to use actual war footage to hype a fight.

The Japanese fans are more respectful and knowledgeable. Nick felt no hate coming into that ring and recieved no hate after the win. They can pull it off, we can't. Drunk American dumbass' wouldn't go as smoothly.

ohiovol62 wrote:

Is there a thing between SF and DREAM? Thought they were friends. This is all for shock value. Don't buy into this garbage.

They are friends. DREAM is just marketing bouts between DREAM fighters and Strikeforce fighters as DREAM vs. Strikeforce. Strikeforce isnt doing that but at Dream 13 they really started playing it up when hyping Aoki/Melendez and KJ Noons vs. Andre Dida. Also, a future fight between Josh Barnett and Fedor.

I just took them as general WW2 imagies. Ya, we were attacked first, but we destroyed two entire cities worth of children. Donno how much we can be offended by that in context anyway. Besides, the Japanese culture like any foriegn culture is different than ours so it is hard to know exactly how to take those images or what the real intent was anyway.

It would be like assaulting a cop and having your balls cut off and your wife raped in front of you.

Wolfgangsta wrote:

I just took them as general WW2 imagies. Ya, we were attacked first, but we destroyed two entire cities worth of children. Donno how much we can be offended by that in context anyway. Besides, the Japanese culture like any foriegn culture is different than ours so it is hard to know exactly how to take those images or what the real intent was anyway.

It would be like assaulting a cop and having your balls cut off and your wife raped in front of you.

wanna know something that most dont realize

we killed way more people with traditional bombing of Japan than dropping 2 A Bombs, everyone says oh we massacred Hiroshima and Nagasaki

well what the hell did we do to Tokyo? It was completely justified, but most dont realize traditional bombings kill a shit load more people than the 2 a bombs did

The paintings are a gripping testament to the destruction as Japan prepares to mark the 60th anniversary this week of the March 9-10, 1945, air raid that killed an estimated 100,000 people in a single night of fire. The official death toll was some 83,000, but historians generally agree that victims unaccounted for bring the figure to around 100,000 � overwhelmingly civilians. It is widely considered to be the most devastating air raid in history

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0310-08.htm

Yo I didn't wanna get into the fireboming history. Those paper buildings...

i just think its funny everyone has a problem with Hiroshima and Nagasaki and normally dont even know about Tokyo

Well nukes are like steriods in the public eye.

Isn't it crazy years later we're freindly countries?

Not really LA if you look at the relationships and agreements made after the war ended. We pretty much engineered both Japan and Germany to be non-militaristic allies of ours.

I understand that, but still...