Shinya Aoki vs Mizuto Hiroka
Shinya Aoki vs Keith Wisnewski
New Year’s Eve, at “Dynamite!! 2009”, in the first round, Shinya Aoki caught Mizuto Hirota’s right arm in a hammerlock. Then he cranked the limb until it broke, loudly. Then he leapt up and flipped off his writhing opponent.
He was near universally condemned, and dismissed as a coach at his AACC gym. Does he harbor any regret?
“No, because it happened during the fight,” Aoki told MMAjunkie.com through his translator during a media day promoting his upcoming fight with Strikeforce lightweight champion Gil Melendez at “Strikeforce: Nashville.”
“The thought came down to me. Maybe the bad thought came down to me.”
“I just want to win the fight.”
“It’s going to be a very great fight with a quick submission or knockout. Either way, it’s going to be a first-round fight for him or for me.
“I can take his pressure, but finally, I’m going to win.”
“Sometime in the future, it may happen,. I can’t deny that it will happen again.”
