If I had creative control over the shirt Sakuraba wore at the Dream 14 press conference, after 'Liquor' I would add 'Wake up in the Starbucks parking lot on the corner of Western Ave and Hollywood Blvd. without any shoes.' It's happened before and I'll be damned if it won't happen again. I've long held that Ben Askren is the new Sakuraba based on his innovative wrestling and forever-evolving jiu-jitsu. However, considering that Askren isn't a chain smoking catch-wrestler that loves to get drunk, that statement no longer applies.

No doubt you've been wondering where Sakuraba has been since his final MMA bout in 2011 at DREAM 17. Well for starters he's been participating in wrestling events and pretending they're actual MMA bouts.

Last weekend in NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 7 at the Tokyo Dome, we think Sakuraba got just a little too real in his wrestling match. Specifically this killer knee that he landed on his opponent. We combed the entire 5-hour-long wrestling event and have queued up the part of the video in which the switch sort of 'flips' for Sakuraba. Check it out.

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+10 # Buckley 2013-01-10 17:14

Puro is often much stiffer than Americans are used to seeing, but that might have been a botched spot, or a little stiffer than intended, or just really awesome.

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+1 # Gomi500 2013-01-10 17:18

agreed.

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+2 # renerocker 2013-01-10 17:24

What a robbery. No way that was a 3-count.

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+10 # fuckandersonsilva 2013-01-10 17:41

god damn it, that fire, he's got it back!

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+3 # Puck 2013-01-10 19:20

Didn't know the E.Honda bitchslap was so popular in Japanese wrestling.

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+1 # Nuked 2013-01-10 19:22

Come on. They just follow the open fist rule that American Pro Wrestlers are always yelled at for.

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0 # Toothy 2013-01-10 19:36

Hey, man, Shinsuke's a shooter. He's got a win over Jan Nortje!

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+2 # SnakeJake 2013-01-11 02:59

If I get out of bed, I have a win over Jan Nortje.

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+6 # longballs 2013-01-10 20:01

That was a stiff knee if I ever seen one. These guys are too hardcore for wwe or tna.

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0 # Lefthea D. Kick 2013-01-10 20:54

Pancrase rules with the open hand strikes?

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0 # manicdreams.net 2013-01-11 07:19

3:38:00-3:38:04

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