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MMA Fighting has Fedor vs. Ishii results for the Dream New Year's Eve fight card at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The event, headlined by a fight between Fedor Emelianenko vs. Satoshi Ishii, is titled "Genki Desu Ka!!" and is this year's version of Dynamite!!. The 17-fight lineup will have MMA, boxing and even pro wrestling matches. Check out the full results below. MMA Fedor Emelianenko def. Satoshi Ishii by first-round knockout (punches) Shinya Aoki def. Satoru Kitaoka by unanimous decision Hiroyuki Takaya def. Takeshi "Lion" Inoue by unanimous decision BW GP Final: Bibiano Fernandes def. Antonio Banuelos via first-round TKO (punches) Hayato "Mach" Sakurai def. Ryo Chonan via unanimous decision Tatsuya Kawajiri def. Kazuyuki Miyata via submission (arm triangle) Megumi Fujii def. Karla Benitez via submission (arm bar) BW GP Semifinals: Bibiano Fernandes def. Rodolfo Marques via unanimous decision BW GP Semifinals: Antonio Banuelos...

Fedor Emelianenko returned to Japan on New Year's Eve and earned an easy first-round knockout victory, leveling the Olympic judo gold medalist Satoshi Ishii with a right-left-right combination that ended the fight quickly. Fedor's performance in the main event at the Dream New Year's Eve show at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan was impressive, but it also showed just how mediocre a fighter Ishii is: His striking and stand-up defense are extremely rudimentary, and he just wasn't ready for an opponent of Fedor's level. The two had a good exchange in the early going that started with Fedor throwing a kick, Ishii catching it and going for a takedown, a brief clinch and ultimately Fedor knocking Ishii down, and after that it was all Fedor: The Last Emperor had settled in and gotten comfortable, and then he was going to win handily. For Fedor, who left Strikeforce on a three-fight losing streak this summer, the win over Ishii was his second in a row, having previously be...