Little guys shine in Japan on NYE
B.J. Penn is the best lightweight in the UFC by a wide margin. He's been forced to move up for a fight against welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre at UFC 94 for two reasons. He's easily disposed of the UFC's top 155 pounders and the four best lightweights behind him may be fighting in Japan. They're all on display tomorrow morning on the K-1 Dynamite! 2008 card in the land of the rising sun.
Eddie Alvarez, 24, from Philadelphia battles Shinya Aoki. These two are arguably the No. 2 and 3 lightweights in the world. Aoki is a submission genius with two gogoplata submissions to his credit. Alvarez with a strong wrestling/boxing base is 15-1. Two other top six lightweights face off in Gesias Cavalcante and Joachim Hansen.
Fightlinker has the link so you can watch the condensed version of the fight card tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. ET.
Mark Hunt, Sakuraba, Hayato Sakurai, Alistair Overeem, Badr Hari, Cro Cop, Tatsuya Kawajiri and Gegard Mousasi are all featured on the card.
