Dynamite!! USA

Dynamite!! USA
K-1 Dynamite USA!!
A poster or logo for K-1 Dynamite USA!!.
Information
Promotion HERO'S/FEG and Elite XC
Date June 2, 2007
Venue Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
City Los Angeles, California
Attendance 18,340 (3,674 actual paid)[1]
Total gate $2,545,590
Buyrate 35,000[2]

SoftBank presents Dynamite!! USA was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event co-promoted by FEG, the promoters of K-1 kickboxing and Hero's MMA events, and EliteXC. The event was held on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.

The event featured the MMA debut of former professional wrestler Brock Lesnar and the anticipated rematch between Royce Gracie and Kazushi Sakuraba. The show also featured the MMA debut of NFL wide receiver Johnnie Morton.

The event was aired in two parts in the United States, with three preliminary bouts airing for free on Showtime and a main fight card shown on pay-per-view. In Japan, the card was aired as a two-hour edited broadcast on TBS on June 4, 2007. A condensed one-hour version of the entire event was broadcast on Showtime June 9, 2007.

Dynamite!! USA unofficially shattered the record for highest attendance numbers for a North American mixed martial arts event with 42,757 claimed spectators.[3] UFC 129 broke both the official record set at UFC 124 and Dynamite's unofficial record with 55,000 tickets sold for UFC 129 at Rogers Centre


Contents

Results

PPV Bouts

PPV Results

Winner Loser Method Round Time
Côte d'Ivoire Bernard Ackah United States Johnnie Morton KO (Punches) 1 0:38
Samoa Mighty Siliga United States Ruben “Warpath” Villareal KO (Punches) 1 1:33
South Korea Yoon Dong-Sik Netherlands Melvin Manhoef Submission (Armbar) 2 1:17
Japan Hideo Tokoro United Kingdom Brad Pickett Submission (Armbar) 1 2:41
Brazil Royce Gracie Japan Kazushi Sakuraba Decision (Unanimous) 3 5:00
United States Brock Lesnar South Korea Min Soo Kim Submission (Strikes) 1 1:09

Showtime Bouts

Televised Event Results

Winner Loser Method Round Time
United States Jonathan Wiezorek United States Tim "Big Perm" Persey TKO (Punches) 2 0:50
Brazil Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante United States Nam Phan TKO (Punches) 1 0:26
United States Jake Shields Israel Ido Pariente Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 1 2:06

Preliminary Bouts

Problems and Controversies

Pre-Fight Problems The event encountered numerous problems and controversies even before it began. FEG, Inc. (the company in charge of producing and managing K-1 events [4]) had difficulties obtaining a promoter's license, and was only granted a temporary one by the California State Athletic Commission eight days before the event.[5] Popular South Korean fighter Hong-Man Choi, initially scheduled to fight Brock Lesnar, was denied a license to fight in the state roughly a week and a half before the event due to medical reasons (later reported to be a tumor on his pituitary gland).[6] K-1 promoters continued to advertise a Lesnar vs. Choi bout up until the day of the fight, even knowing that it would not occur [7] An originally announced women's bout featuring Jan Finney vs. Gina Carano was canceled on May 16, 2007, when Carano withdrew due to illness.[8] Antonio Silva was also removed from the card due to an undisclosed medical condition, and was replaced by Tim "Big Perm" Persey. Finally, the announced match between Ray Sefo and Marvin Eastman was dropped from the card with no explanation given.

Attendance/Live Gate Controversy On June 7, 2007, the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) announced that 42,757 tickets were distributed for the event – something promoters say validated the claim of having the largest attendance for a Mixed Martial Arts event in North America (a record previously held by UFC 68).[9] The paid gate for the event was $2,545,590.[3] However, the promoters of the event paid $2,342,500 of that to buy 39,083 tickets to its own event. The final verified paid attendance number for K-1 Dynamite stands at 3,674 which generated $203,090 in revenue.

Post-Fight Fighter Tim "Big Perm" Percy tested positive for methamphetamines after his fight, and was suspended by the CSAC. [10] In addition, Johnnie Morton tested positive for anabolic steroids [11] and Royce Gracie tested positive for Nandrolone, a commonly used anabolic steroid.[12]

Purses

The overall disclosed fighter payroll for the event was $1,057,500. [13]

Fighter Fight Earnings Notes
Brock Lesnar $170,000 No win bonus
Royce Gracie $300,000 No win bonus
Johnnie Morton $100,000 Purse being withheld
Melvin Manhoef $50,000
Jonathan Wiezorek $40,000 Includes $25K win bonus
Gesias "JZ" Calvancanti $36,000 Fined $9K for weight
Min Soo Kim $30,000
Kazushi Sakuraba $130,000
"Mighty" Mo Siliga $30,000
Ruben "Warpath" Villareal $30,000
Nam Phan $29,500 Additional $4.5K due to opponent's weight
Jake Shields $24,000
Dong Sik Yoon $20,000
Tim "Big Perm" Persey $20,000
Hideo Tokoro $15,000 No win bonus
Katsuhiko Nagata $15,000 No win bonus
Brad Pickett $8,000
Bernard Ackah $5,000 No win bonus
Ido Pariente $2,500
Isaiah Hill $2,500

See also

References

External links


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