Shinya Aoki is a stone-cold killer

Shinya Aoki just might be the most cold-blooded fighter in MMA. The magic-panted grappler broke Mizuto Hirota’s arm – he snapped the humerus, to be precise – at Dynamite!! in Japan on Friday. It was the most messed-up sick hammerlock submission that did the damage. At the post-fight press conference, the DREAM lightweight champ and recent Strikeforce recruit dubbed the move the “Keichi Sasahara 2010,” after the DREAM event producer and Aoki’s employer, who reportedly (according to Sherdog) told Aoki to “take him out.”

And while he apologized for standing over his writhing opponent and giving him the finger as well as flipping off the entire arena, Aoki was ice cold on snapping Hirota’s humerus:

“When I had his arm behind his back, I could feel it popping,” Aoki said. “I thought, ‘Well, this guy’s pride just won’t let him tap, will it?’ So without hesitation, I broke it. I heard it break, and I thought, ‘Ah, there, I just broke it.’ I was stopped afterward, but even if I hadn’t been, continuing to break it more would have been fine by me.”

Think about that. He could hear – and most-definitely feel – the bone breaking. And he didn’t care. And he had Hirota’s other arm trapped so he couldn’t tap. A lot of fighters talk a big game about ripping off opponents’ arms, but I don’t recall too many talking that tough after they actually did it.