Akiyama's Entrance Music

It occurred to me that he used "Time to Say Goodbye" as his entrance music...this struck me as interesting because, if I was him going into a fight with Vitor I wouldn't be at all confident of victory (size, skillset, etc, not saying Akiyama isn't good). Japanese fighters often seem to fight with a sense of fatalism, or rather, will take a fight they're near certain to lose and go out on their shield.

So, it seems to me he knew he would probably lose, accepted it, and that he would probably get cut if he did, so he was saying "Goodbye" to the UFC.

I hope he will drop to 170 and the UFC will keep him on, but I think it's awesome he'd take a fight like that and just go for it (front kick and all, LOL).

maybe he's just a big step brothers fan?

You do know that he always uses that song as his entrance music right??? See his fight vs Sakuraba.

He used the original (italian) version of the song. It's not really called time to say goodbye, nor does the translation work out to that in english.

Very exciting fighter got 3 fight of the nights and 1 KO bonus. UFC should let him drop to WW and keep him in the roster.

I expected more of him