QUINTET - Sakuraba's New Grappling League

[Katsumi Yamada]

Whitemare zaromskis?
Boots n burns Nakamura?
Fucking Dong sik Yoon?

Count me in.

Will be fun to see some of the little guys try and survive Josh Barnett for 5 minutes, or Tokoro vs Ishii LMAO

 

[manboy<3]

The most interesting part of this concept - how will each team use the weight limit ?

However I am not happy with each team being required to have 5 members. It would have been better if each team were free to chose how many members they would want to enter up to a maximum of 5

That way we could have had more interesting match up possibilities like

3 Heavyweights vs 4 Mousasi sized fighters

2 super heavies + Aoki sized midget vs 5 welterweights

etc

 

[KenkaBancho]

i like the judo dream team, some old faces there. they should get sexyama

Fingers crossed for

Yoshida
Kazu
Omigawa

Don Quijote represent

 

[manboy<3]

This is some king of fighters level shit

I think this format in Ganryujima would be the pinnacle of MMA and that it is wasted in something as boring as sub-grappling

The idea of putting together legendary teams of martial artists to compete against each other in open weight competition is very intriguing to me but I just wish it wasn't sub grappling..Grappling is the worst combat sport to watch bar none

 

[LiveFreeorDie]

Awesome!




And all these teams should go against Rickson by himself.

 

[LiveFreeorDie]

This is some king of fighters level shit

I think this format in Ganryujima would be the pinnacle of MMA and that it is wasted in something as boring as sub-grappling

The idea of putting together legendary teams of martial artists to compete against each other in open weight competition is very intriguing to me but I just wish it wasn't sub grappling..Grappling is the worst combat sport to watch bar none

The only problem I have with Ganryujima is the fact that it can become a pushing contest.

 

[Buffmeister]

Sounds interesting to me...

Zaromskis on Team Sambo...is he allowed to pass guard via backflip?

 

[Bubblun]

Holy shit, there are some seriously good guys in this tournament.

 

[Dick]

Polaris team wins this. EASILY.

 

[JohnMandick]

Polaris team wins this. EASILY.

Up until there is a Death Squad team (or DATSUSARA team or whatever they'd be under)

 

[cookdaddy]

Interesting ruleset but I'm actually excited. Hopefully the Judo team will and Karo Parisyan and Yoshida (fingers crossed)

 

[mime]

hope they have an online ppv

 

[Aerosol]

Whatever Saku does, Im in!
Why? Because hes a fking MMA GOD.

 

[JosephDredd]

The most interesting part of this concept - how will each team use the weight limit ?

However I am not happy with each team being required to have 5 members. It would have been better if each team were free to chose how many members they would want to enter up to a maximum of 5

That way we could have had more interesting match up possibilities like

3 Heavyweights vs 4 Mousasi sized fighters

2 super heavies + Aoki sized midget vs 5 welterweights

etc

lol everyone cutting weight so they can get the biggest fifth teammate possible

 

[Magooglie]

They should allow slapping like Eddie Bravo's show.

 

[listrahtes]

The teams look quite unbalanced.

 

[Asurah]

Caol Uno is the final member of the Polaris team

 

[KenkaBancho]

Caol Uno is the final member of the Polaris team

I don't follow grappling so... why Uno? AFAIK he isn't that accomplished in pure grappling?

 

[Asurah]

I don't follow grappling so... why Uno? AFAIK he isn't that accomplished in pure grappling?

Pioneer and a notable name. He is a former ADCC runner-up as well, more recently he won a ZST tag tournament with Uematsu. He makes more sense from pure grappling accomplishments than most of the Haleo team and entirety of the sambo team

 

[KenkaBancho]

Pioneer and a notable name. He is a former ADCC runner-up as well, more recently he won a ZST tag tournament with Uematsu. He makes more sense from pure grappling accomplishments than most of the Haleo team and entirety of the sambo team

Oh sure. I was just wondering why they didn't get one of Danaher's boys.

I actually like the gimmicky teams. Would love to have like a wrestling team that would just wreck everyone with takedowns and risk getting subbed easily. I'm sure they could get some uni's team to participate. Maybe a pancrase team with old school guys like Funaki, Minrou Suzuki etc

Judo team has former olympians so I won't count them out. Their level of athleticism isn't something that the other teams have and Ishii is a fucking Beijing gold medalist who i don't see anyone subbing easily. It's quite different a different battle when there aren't any punches being thrown at them.