mystery solved

My general response to someone asking me anything is "GFE", meaning "Google f-in exists". SO I took my own advice (hard to do sometimes) and hit the two best friends an MMA fan has, Google and Youtube.
One thing that had been bugging me was the shifting results listed for Fedor Emilianenko's bout against Tsuyoshi Kohsaka at RINGS King of Kings in December 2000. Sherdog had it listed as a NC at first, then as a TKO loss. He has one other no contest, for an accidental cut against Minotauro Nogueira.
So I looked it up on google, then youtube. Here's the whole fight. Apparently he got cut in a previous fight, and from what I can se Kohsaka threw a punch and his elbow grazed Fedor's brow, reopening the cut. The ref stepped in and it was all over. Apparently elbow strikes were illegal in RINGS, but since Fedor could not go on, Kohsaka got the win.
The screwed up part is that had Fedor continued, and won the fight, he would have met up with Randy Couture. That's something people still want to see. Fedor-Randy seven years ago would have been about the height of greatness.
As an aside, here's Fedor beating Kohsaka five years later in Pride.

Saturday Bodogfight

• Fedor did what Fedor does: dominate. Lindland clipped him over the eye, brought out some of the red, red vino, but it wasn't much. Matt Lindland tried some greco-roman action, and actually had Emelianenko up off his feet, but when he tried a slam, Fedor reversed it like he so often does, seemingly in mid-air, and that was the beginning of the end for Matt. Still, a good fight. Brutal armbar ended it.

• Sherdog's round by round blog is funny as hell:

10:18 p.m. During his pre-fight interview, Aleks uses the non-word "fiercefully." You tell him it doesn't exist.

He also mentioned up-and-coming PRIDE Light Heavyweight fighter Sudoku.

• Bodogfight put on a decent show. Lots of skinny Russian girls.

Like her.

• It seems Bodogfight is turning into an "organization"...belts and all. It felt a bit disorganized, like, who's the champ? Why? They also did the same shit UFC does, not show fights. I freaking hate that. SEVEN fights were not televised. We paid $30 bucks for six fights and endless, boring talkup. Just show fights! Screw the blather! I don't care! Arrgh! Blarrgh!

• The Welterweight championship featured Nick "The Goat" Thompson vs. a tiny midget. The midget looked game, but overmatched, as he was tiny. The Goat won.

Other stuff:
• I didn't make it to the Total Combat event in San Diego, as I decided to stay home and have a long boring talk about my relationship (all my decision of course). MMAFighting.com (Great site!) has results & pictures.
Here's a good one:

If anyone has an actual, firsthand report from the event, drop me a line. Here's another "Bodog Girl" for the road: