Aoki: No regrets for breaking arm, might do it again
Shinya Aoki vs Mizuto Hiroka Shinya Aoki vs Keith Wisnewski New Year’s Eve, at “Dynamite!! 2009”, in the first round,…
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.”