One of the biggest friends of Gesias Cavalcante in American Top Team, Jorge Santiago is training for his fight at Sengoku, in January, when he takes a shot against Kazuo Misaki for the middleweight title. Set to fight in Japan in January 4th, Jorge Santiago will follow Gesias in his fight at K-1 Dynamite, against Joachim Hansen, champion of the DREAM lightweight GP.

"Gesias is a monster! He's training in a way that sometimes I don't know where he takes so energy (laughs). He's training to don't happen any surprises at the fight, he's with the ground, striking and wrestling well-trained… You can wait that he'll give a great show," guarantees Santiago, that discards the ambience of revenge between the fighters, that faced themselves in Shooto, in 2004, and finished with victory of the Norwegian. "I don't see it like a revenge, but like a new meeting. Gesias in that time was very young, that was his third professional fight and, of that time for now, he has changed a lot, like Hansen did."

If in the first meeting between the fighters Hansen won, Jorge has not doubts in his bets. "I can tell you certainly that the fight will be completely different. If somebody tells me that Hansen is two times better today, I can assert you that Gesias is ten times better than before (laughs)," guarantees Jorge, who continues in Japan after the fight of Gesias, to fight with Misaki in Sengoku and still support the team partner Antônio Bigfoot against Yoshihiro Nakao, in the same night.

Taken from: tatame.com

Former UFC heavyweight fighter Fabricio "Vai Cavalo" Werdum recently said during an interview that he has nothing definitive in terms of a potential contract after being released by the UFC. The Brazilian mixed martial artist did go on to make a comment regarding Affliction Entertainment though saying, "Affliction is promising more than 16 shows in 2009, mainly do not claiming exclusivity."

The starting point would obviously be January 24th "Day of Reckoning", but beyond that, nobody's heard anything.

We do know that the Affliction's roster goes as deep as January's card but they do have the capabilities to sign more fighters as the promotion moves forward.

K-1 World GP 2008 Final took place a little earlier this Saturday at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.

It was an enjoyable event, filled with nonstop action. Unfortunately, it was marred by a bizarre and unsatisfying ending.

Yes, a bizarre and unsatifying ending. It was happen when Badr Hari pulled Remy Bonjasky to the ground in Round 2 and continued to pummel Bonjasky and even tried to stomp on his face.

It was truly shocking, especially seeing as he might of cost himself the whole tournament. Hari was given a yellow card for his "insanity" and fined 10% of his purse.

Bonjasky was given 5 minutes to recover but was still seeing double after the time elapsed. So, the referee called the match and disqualified Hari for his actions and talkabout a disappointing ending to an otherwise great event.

When all was said and done, Bonjasky was crowned the K-1 World GP Champion for a third time in his career.

This event also featured EliteXC fighter Kimbo Slice as guest commentator.

Here are the official results for K-1 World GP 2008 Final:

• Opening Fight #1: Taisei Ko (Japan/Kyokushin Kaikan) def. TAKERU (Japan/Seido Kaikan) by unanimous decision

• Opening Fight #2: Mitsugu Noda (Japan/Silver Ax) def. Tsutomu Takahagi (Japan/Team Dragon) by KO at 2:49 of Round 2

• Fight #1: K-1 World GP 2008 Quarterfinal #1: Badr Hari (Morocco/Show Time) def. Peter Aerts (Holland/Team Aerts) by TKO at 1:39 of Round 2

• Fight #2: K-1 World GP 2008 Quarterfinal #2: Errol Zimmerman (Suriname/Golden Glory) def. Ewerton Teixeira (Brazil/Kyokushin Kaikan) by split decision

• Fight #3: K-1 World GP 2008 Quarterfinal #3: Gokhan Saki (Turkey/Team Rebel) def. Ruslan Karaev (Russia) by unanimous decision

• Fight #4: K-1 World GP 2008 Quarterfinal #4: Remy Bonjasky (Holland/Team Bonjasky) def. Jerome LeBanner (France/LeBanner Xtream Team) by TKO at 1:46 of Round 3

• Fight #5: Reserve Fight #1: Ray Sefo (New Zealand/Ray Sefo Fight Academy) def. Choi Hong-man (Republic of Korea) by unanimous decision

• Fight #6: Reserve Fight #2: Melvin Manhoef (Holland/Mike's Gym) def. Paul Slowinski (Australia/Team Mr. Perfect) by Ko at 2:26 of Round 1

• Fight #7: K-1 World GP 2008 Semifinal #1: Badr Hari (Morocco/Show Time) def. Errol Zimmerman (Suriname/Golden Glory) by KO at 2:15 of Round 3

• Fight #8: K-1 World GP 2008 Semifinal #2: Remy Bonjasky (Holland/Team Bonjasky) def. Gokhan Saki (Turkey/Team Rebel) by KO at 0:53 or Round 2

• Fight #9: K-1 World GP 2008 Final: Remy Bonjasky (Holland/Team Bonjasky) def. Badr Hari (Morocco/Show Time) by disqualification at 0:53 of Round 2