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12/13 Shooto Rookie Tournament Finals

2009-11-24T17:59:00.007+02:00

The traditional Rookie tournament finals take place in Shinjuku Face on December 13.

As usual there are some talented fighters. The welterweight final should be very interesting, Matsumoto has won all his fights within the distance and is coming in with a lot of comfidence. As usual the best fights should be in the featherweight and lightweight divisions, it looks that way this year as well.

This year they have added a heavyweight tournament as well.

In non-tournament fights, Yuta Nezu will be looking to build on his impressive Shooto record, but he is facing a very tough opponent in Naohiro Mizuno, the loser in last years rookie tournament final.

Non-Tournament Fights:
Welter: Guy Delameau 11-5-1 vs. 5-3-0 Mateus Irie Nechio
Fly: "Heat" Takeshi Sato 8-8-1 vs. 4-2-0 Junji "Sarumaru" Ito
Feather: Yuta Nezu 8-3-1 vs. 6-2-1 Naohiro "Chokugeki Gamon" Mizuno

Rookie Tournament Finals:
Heavy: Takashi Goto 1-0-1 vs. 2-1-0 Takahiro "Jaian" Suzuki
Welter: Koji Matsumoto 3-0-0 vs. 3-3-2 "Gypsy" Taro Kusano
Light: Yusuke Yachi 2-0-0 vs. vs. 5-1-0 Tsuneo "Jackknife" Kimura
Feather: Keita Yoshida 4-0-2 vs. vs. 4-1-0 Haruo Ochi
Bantam: Nozomi Otsuka 3-1-1 vs. 2-2-0 Yosuke "Flying Monkey No.2" Saruta
Fly: Yusuke Sato 3-1 vs. 3-2- Hiroyuki "Ron" Kondo

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11/23 ZST 22 - Results

2009-11-23T23:37:00.003+02:00

Daisuke Nakamura was the big draw on this event, but Naoyuki Kotani managed to pull out the upset win with an leg scissor submission in less than 2 minutes. I was thinking that a win here would secure Nakamura a place on the Dynamite! card, but now we have to wait and see if that spot goes to Kotani.

Omura has 15 fights without a win now, you got to give him A for effort and determination.

Main-event:
22. Light: Naoyuki Kotani Def. Daisuke Nakamura by leg-scissors Round 1 1:37

21. Light-Heavy (2x5min): Nobutatsu Suzuki Def. Osami Shibuya by KO Round 2 4:03
Light tag-team(grappling Rule 1x15min.):
20. Masanori Kanehara & Baret Yoshida vs. Takumi Yano & Tetsuya Yamada Draw
19. Light (2x5min): Kenichi Ito Def. Masayuki Okude by TKO (doc stop) Round 1 5:00
18. Feather: Hiroshi "Iron" Nakamura Def. Ko Inatsu by armbar Round 1 1:35
Featherweight Tag-Team (1x15min.)
17. Ryuko Wada/Ryosuke Komori Def. Shunichi Shimizu/Ichiro Sugita by KO Round 1 1:50(Wada KOs Sugita)

SWAT Bouts:
16. Bantam: Toshihiro Shimizu Def. Goro Kobayashi DQ Kobayashi didnt show due to the flu
15. Feather: Kohei Kuraoka vs. Masamitsu Nakamura Draw
14. Fly: Yuru Hayasaka Def. Hiroyuki Aoh by heelhook Round 1 1:49
13. Light: Ryoji Suzuki Def. Motoki Osako by KO Round 1 3:43
12. Middle: Keisuke Onuma vs. Hidenobu Koike Draw
11. Light: Kota Okazawa Def. Takashi Yasui by armbar Round 1 4:00
10. Feather: Shinya Irei Def. Akira Omura by KO round 1 3:33
9. Light: Yoshihiro Sato Def. Hiroshi Sato by KO Round 1 2:15
8. Bantam: Kengo Okubo vs. Satoshi Shinbori Draw
7. Welter: Masayuki Hamagishi Def. Hiroshi Takahashi by armlock Round 1 2:10
6. Light (GT-F Rule): Hiroyuki Ota vs. Takahiro Futatsumori Draw
5. Feather (GT-F Rule): Hitoshi Makino vs. Kohei Seirin Draw

Genesis Bouts:
4. Bantam: Yosuke Hatori vs. Masatoshi Kondo draw
3. Fly: Tomoaki Ota vs. Shohei Watanabe draw
2. Fly: Keita Fukuhara Def. Hiroshi Koda by rear-naked choke Round 1 0:46
1. Light (GT-F Rule): Toshihisa Shinomiya vs. Evardo Santos Draw

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11/23 Shooto Revolutionary Excanges 3 - Results

2009-11-23T10:09:00.013+02:00

Will be up as they become available.

Main-Event: Shooto World Flyweight Title Fight:
10. Rambaa "M-16" Somdet Def. Noboru "Shinpei" Tahara by Decision 3-0

9. Bantam: Ryuichi Miki Def. Masaaki Sugawara by Decision 3-0
8. Light: Issei Tamura Def. Gustavo Falciroli by Decision 3-0

Shooto vs. Pancrase:
7. Middle: Takuya Wada Def. Shiko Yamashita by rear-naked choke Round 3 4:26
6. Welter: Kotetsu Boku Def. Yukio Sakaguchi by BIG KO Round 1 1:54
5. Bantam: Mamoru Yamaguchi Def. Kiyotaka Shimizu by Decision 2-0

4. Fly: Megumi Fujii Def. "Windy" Tomomi Sunabe by armbar Round 1 3:24
3. Feather: Shuichiro Katsumura Def. So Tazawa by Brabo choke Round 1 3:54
2. Welter: Yoshihiro Koyama Def. Tetsuji Kato by KO round 2 1:22
1. Welter: Daisuke "Amazon" Sugie (Def. Paolo Milano by decision 3-0

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11/23 Shooto Revolutionary Excanges 3 - Weigh-in Results

2009-11-22T19:03:00.003+02:00

The weigh-ins for tomorrow's Shooto event are done, the fighters made weight and everything is on track for an awesome event tomorrow! The card is full of good matchups and I am putting my signature on the line in the forum, picking Sugawara over Miki. :)

I am in particular looking forward to Kojima returning to Shooto and the Shooto vs. Pancrase fights.

Main-Event: Shooto World Flyweight Title Fight:
10. Noboru "Shinpei" Tahara (51.9kg) 7-3-1 vs. 6-2-0 (52kg) Rambaa "M-16" Somdet

9. Bantam: Ryuichi Miki (55.6kg) 9-3-3 vs. 9-3-1 (56kg) Masaaki Sugawara
8. Light: Gustavo Falciroli (64.9kg) 8-1-2 vs. 4-0-0 (64.4kg) Issei Tamura

Shooto vs. Pancrase:
7. Middle: Shiko Yamashita (75.8kg) 10-4-3 vs. 18-8-10 (1NC) (76kg) Takuya Wada (King of Pancrase)
6. Welter: Kotetsu Boku (70kg) 14-6-2 vs. 3-5-0 (69.1kg) Yukio Sakaguchi
5. Bantam: Mamoru Yamaguchi (55.8kg) 21-5-3 vs. 4-2-1 (56kg) Kiyotaka Shimizu

4. Fly: Megumi Fujii (52kg) 18-0 vs. 12-11-1 (51.9kg) "Windy" Tomomi Sunabe
3. Feather: So Tazawa (59.6kg) 8-4-3 vs. 9-7-3 (59.6kg) Shuichiro Katsumura
2. Welter: Yoshihiro Koyama (69.8kg) 12-3-1 vs. 19-9-0(69.6kg) Tetsuji Kato
1. Welter: Daisuke "Amazon" Sugie (70kg) 7-6-1 vs. 8-4-1 (70kg) Paolo Milano

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11/23 ZST 22 - Kanehara's Tag Team Partner Announced!

2009-11-22T00:45:00.003+02:00

ZST have announced the tag team partner in the BIG tag team grappling fight on their 7 year anniversary card. The Sengoku featherweight champion will team up with Baret Yoshida to face Takumi Yano & Tetsuya Yamada. This should be good!

The fight order is also announced now.

Fight card:
Main-event:
22. Light: Naoyuki Kotani 19-9-6 vs. 20-10-0 Daisuke Nakamura

21. Light-Heavy (2x5min): Osami Shibuya 38-32-16 vs. 5-0-2 Nobutatsu Suzuki
Light tag-team(grappling Rule 1x15min.):
20. Masanori Kanehara & Baret Yoshida vs. Takumi Yano & Tetsuya Yamada
19. Light (2x5min): Kenichi Ito 6-3-4 vs. 7-9-8 Masayuki Okude
18. Feather: Ko Inatsu vs. 8-3-5 Hiroshi "Iron" Nakamura
Featherweight Tag-Team (1x15min.)
17. Shunichi Shimizu & Ichiro Sugita vs. Ryuko Wada/Ryosuke Komori

SWAT Bouts:
16. Bantam: Goro Kobayashi 5-4-5 vs. 7-7-4 Toshihiro Shimizu
15. Feather: Kohei Kuraoka 7-3-0 vs. 3-0-0 Masamitsu Nakamura
14. Fly: Hiroyuki Aoh 1-1-0 vs. 4-2-0 Yuru Hayasaka
13. Light: Ryoji Suzuki 4-3-3 vs. 3-0-1 Motoki Osako
12. Middle: Keisuke Onuma 1-5-1 vs. 11-10-5 Hidenobu Koike
11. Light: Kota Okazawa 6-3-3 vs. 0-2-0 Takashi Yasui
10. Feather: Akira Omura 0-13-1 (2 NC) vs. 1-2-1 Shinya Irei
9. Light: Yoshihiro Sato 0-3-0 vs. 0-1-0 Hiroshi Sato
8. Bantam: Kengo Okubo 1-3-0 vs. 5-5-3 Satoshi Shinbori
7. Welter: Masayuki Hamagishi 2-2-3 vs. Hiroshi Takahashi
6. Light (GT-F Rule): Hiroyuki Ota vs. Takahiro Futatsumori
5. Feather (GT-F Rule): Hitoshi Makino vs. TBA

Genesis Bouts:
4. Bantam: Yosuke Hatori vs. Masatoshi Kondo
3. Fly: Tomoaki Ota vs. Shohei Watanabe
2. Fly: Keita Fukuhara vs. Hiroshi Koda
1. Light (GT-F Rule): Toshihisa Shinomiya vs. Evardo Santos

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12/19 DEEP Cage Impact 2009 - Fights Announced

2009-11-22T00:31:00.003+02:00

Tomoya Miyashita will be trying to build on his win streak, he defeated Keisuke Fujiwara in the Dream cage, now he gets a shot at another Dream veteran in Atsushi Yamamoto. This should be a very interesting fight .

Also the matchup between Takeshi Yamazaki and Toshiaki Kitada should be very competitive.

Also added to the card is the fight between Koichiro Matsumoto and Isamu Sugiuchi. Sugiuchi has not won in over 2 years and this is another tough fight for him here.

The tickets for this event is selling fast:
VIP 20,000円　
Stage seat 15,000円　
SRS 10,000円　
Seat A 8,000円 (Sold out)
Seat B6,000円 (Sold out)
At the door add 500円

Added:
Atsushi Yamamoto 13-6-1 vs. 16-6-8 Tomoya Miyashita
Takeshi Yamazaki 14-10-2 vs. 10-4-2 Toshiaki Kitada
Koichiro Matsumoto 8-2-0 vs. 8-8-3 Isamu Sugiuchi

Previously Announced:
Nobuhiro Obiya 10-3-1 vs. 7-5-2 Toshikazu Iseno
Ryuta Sakurai 19-15-5 vs. 3-3-4 Makoto "Hiroki" Miyazawa
Eiji Ishikawa 17-15-2 vs. 7-9-2 Yoshitomo Watanabe
Hirohide Fujinuma 6-4-2 vs. Inochi (?)
Teruhiko Kubo 8-9-1 vs. 4-2-0 Kenta Takagi
Hiryu Okamoto 3-3-1 vs. 2-1-0 Kaiji Hirano
Yasuhiro Kawasaki 3-1-1 vs. 1-0-0 Mitsuru "Mike" Yamaguchi
Masakazu Imanari 17-7-2 vs. 13-3-0 Justin "The Shocker" Cruz
Yusuke Kawaguchi 10-1-0 vs. 5-1-0 Roque Martinez
Bernard Ackah 3-3-0 vs. 4-1-1 Shunji Kosaka
Naoki Matsushita 11-12-9 vs. 7-4-8 Yuki Ito
Atsuhiro Tsuboi 6-12-4 vs. 4-0-1 Sadao Kondo

Participants:
Yasuhiro Motomura 2-3-0
Kick Star

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Sengoku Releases Statement

2009-11-20T08:37:00.003+02:00

Sengoku have released a statement regarding their Sengoku Raiden Championships 12 which will take place on NYE.

They are staying it will not take place in Ariake Colosseum, but will be moved to a different arena. In Ariake Colosseum Japan Wrestling Federation will hold their "Junior Star Championship Series"

What is interesting now is, what arena is available??? I am betting they will have it in Saitama Superarena, and from the change in the web-site it looks like it will be the last Sengoku event we will see.

They have now stopped selling tickets and there should be some developement over the next few days.

Once again Nightmare of Battle have come up with the goods, Tanigawa is stating in an interview with Kamipro that he would like most of the fights to be DREAM vs. Sengoku. It will be interesting to see how this developes, for now Sengoku have stopped selling tickets and seems to be looking for a venue.

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11/18 ShootBoxing Bushido Part 5 - RESULTS

2009-11-18T18:54:00.004+02:00

ShootBoxing held their event in Korakuen Hall earlier today and Takaaki Umeno scored a strong KO win in a very competitive fight with Chokdee Por. Parmuk. The other Thai fighter, Phajoneseuk Por. Pramuk got a close decision win.

Female S-Cup champion, Rena, defeated Emi Fujino and Alex Roberts scored a convincing decision win.

Main Event - Expert Class-Rule (5x3min. ext until winner deceided):
12. 70kg: Takaaki Umeno Def. Chokdee Por. Pramuk by KO Round 3 2:44

Expert Class-Rule (3x3min. ext until winner deceided):
11. 70kg: Kenji Kanai Def. Daisuke Tsutsumi by Decision 3-0 ext. Round
10. 70kg: Phajonseuk Por. Pramuk Def. Takeshi Ishikawa by Decision 2-0

Ladies Class-Rule (3x2min ext. 1R):
9. Rena Def. Emi Fujino by TKO (doctor stop) Round 2 5:00
8. Mei "V Hajime" Yamaguchi Def. Etsu Senchaigym by Decision 3-0 ext. round
7. Ai Takahashi Def. Harumi by TKO Round 2 2:51

Expert Class-Rule (3x3min. ext until winner deceided):
6. Alex Roberts Def. Masahiro Iwashita by Decision 3-0 (30-25, 30-25, 30-25)
5. Kazuyuki Fushimi Def. Daisuke Murata by TKO Round 2 2:37
4. Tatsuhiro Takashima Def. Takashi Moto by Decision 3-0

Opening Fights (Starting Rule 3x2min 1 ext.):
3. Yuji Sugawara Def. Shohei Nishimura by Decision 3-0
2. Kensaku Sugiyama Def. Masaya Matsuhana by Decision 2-0
1. Masatomo Kawachi Def. Yuki Sakamoto by Decision 2-1

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12/11 Jewels 6th Ring - Fights Announced

2009-11-17T18:33:00.003+02:00

Jewels have announced an additional 3 fights for their 6th event, and its good to see a Japanese organisation that seems to be going well. This is almost sold out already.

Added to the card is a very interesting matchup between the popular Saori Ishioka and American Sally Krumdiack. Ishioka lost her last fight against Megumi Fujii, and will be looking to get back on track with a win here. Krumdiack is the UMMA and FCF champion and will not be an easy opponent.

Also added is Shizuka Sugiyama against debutant Ko Ozeki. Ozeki is a ShootBoxing fighter and it will be interesting to see how she does against the Jewels favorite.

Announced:
-52.5kg: Saori Ishioka 7-4-0 vs. 7-2-0 Sally Krumdiack
-60kg: Shizuka Sugiyama 5-1-0 vs. Ko Ozeki
-53kg: Hiroko Kitamura 1-0-0 vs. Ayuka Hamazaki

Previously Announced:
-48kg: Yumiko Inoue vs. 0-4-0 Misaki "Patora" Ozawa
-48kg: Yoko Yamada 5-1-0 vs. Miyoko Kusaka

Rough Stone GP 2009 Finals:
-60kg: Alexandra Sanchez 2-0-0 vs. 1-1-0 Tomoko Morii
-54kg: Mika Nagano 4-2-0 vs. 1-0-0 Yuko Kagoshima
-48kg: Asami Kodera 4-3-0 vs. 2-0-0 Kikuyo Ishikawa

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12/5 Cage Force - Fights Announced

2009-11-16T18:59:00.004+02:00

Cage Force have announced some fights for their next event on December 5. A lot of talended fighters, Tetsuya Yoshioke will be looking to bounce back from his first loss and Katsuya Toida will be taking on Laughter7's Wataru Takahashi.

"AB" will be making his Cage Force debut after having fought all his fights in Pancrase so far.

Announced:
Middle(83.9kg 3x5min): Hiroki Ozaki 3-2-0 vs. 7-4-5 Sojiro Orui
Feather (65.7kg 3x5min) Katsuya Toida 10-9-3 vs. 9-11-4 Wataru Takahashi
Welter (77.1kg 3x5min): Keitaro Maeda 3-5-1 vs. 6-1-1 Tetsuya Yoshioka
Light (70.3 3x5min): Hiroki Nagaoka 13-14-9 vs. 3-3-0 Hiroki "AB" Aoki
Feather (65.7kg 3x5min): Satoshi Nishino 5-5-2 vs. 2-0-0 Katsunori Tsuda

Participant:
Motoki Miyazawa 6-1-0

Ticket Prices:
SRS 10,000円　
RS 8,000円
S 6,000円　
A 5,000円
at the door +500円

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11/23 Shooto Revolutionary Excanges 3 - Fight Order

2009-11-16T18:26:00.005+02:00

Another great Shooto card is coming up, this time headlined by the Shooto flyweight world title fight! "Shinpei" Tahara will take on the crazy Muay Thai fighter Rambaa "M-16" Somdet and this fight should be awesome!

Also added to the card is Issei Tamura, the 2008 rookie tournament MVP and undefeated Krazy Bee fighter will take on the Austrailan Gustavo Falciroli.

A solid card from top to bottom!

Main-Event: Shooto World Flyweight Title Fight:
10. Noboru "Shinpei" Tahara 7-3-1 vs. 6-2-0 Rambaa "M-16" Somdet

9. Bantam: Ryuichi Miki 9-3-3 vs. 9-3-1 Masaaki Sugawara
8. Light: Gustavo Falciroli 8-1-2 vs. 4-0-0 Issei Tamura

Shooto vs. Pancrase:
7. Middle: Shiko Yamashita 10-4-3 vs. 18-8-10 (1NC) Takuya Wada (King of Pancrase)
6. Welter: Kotetsu Boku 14-6-2 vs. 3-5-0 Yukio Sakaguchi
5. Bantam: Mamoru Yamaguchi 21-5-3 vs. 4-2-1 Kiyotaka Shimizu

4. Fly: Megumi Fujii 18-0 vs. 12-11-1 "Windy" Tomomi Sunabe
3. Feather: So Tazawa 8-4-3 vs. 9-7-3 Shuichiro Katsumura
2. Welter: Yoshihiro Koyama 12-3-1 vs. 19-9-0 Tetsuji Kato
1. Welter: Daisuke "Amazon" Sugie 7-6-1 vs. 8-4-1 Paolo Milano

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12/6 Pancrase Changing Tour 8 - Another Title Fight Announced

2009-11-14T15:52:00.006+02:00

Pancrase will be looking to end 2009 on a high, with 2 title fights official for their Changing tour 8 card, this should be good.

Also announced is an interesting matchup between Pride veteran Kenji Arai and Tomonori Kanomata.

Others to look out for:
-Juntaro Ami having won both his fights in uned 2 minutes, both by submission.
-Yoshihiro Matsunaga is on a 3 fight winning streak after losing his first 4 fights.

Middleweight King of Pancrase Title Fight:
(Champion) Izuru Takeuchi 25-10-7 vs. 10-10-3 Ichiro Kanai (Challenger)

Feather: Kenji Arai 15-13-4 vs. 13-4-5 Tomonori Kanomata
Feather: Masaya "J-Taro" Takita 9-12-2 vs. 12-5-10 Tashiro "Akai" Nishiuchi
Light: Yuichi Ikari 11-7-3 vs. 8-5-5 Keigo Hirayama
Light: Junichi Ota 3-2-2 vs. 2-0-0 Juntaro Ami
Bantam: Shoko Sato 4-2-2 vs. 1-0-0 Yuta Numakura
Fly: Hiroyuki "Katsuo" Nakajima 0-1-0 vs. 3-4-0 Yoshihiro Matsunaga

Previously Announced:
Light Heavyweight King of Pancrase Title Fight:
Ryo Kawamura (Champion) 10-5-2 vs. 7-3-2 Shunsuke Inoue

Participants:
Takafumi Ito 34-39-10
Takenori Sato 9-6-5

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Sengoku To Cancel their NYE Event?? - Official (?)

2009-11-14T00:30:00.001+02:00

Bloodyelbow is reporting that Sengoku is cancelling their plans to compete with Dynamite! It seems instead they will join forces!

Late Tuesday night, multiple sources informed BloodyElbow.com that World Victory Road has decided to cancel its New Year's Eve "Sengoku Raiden Championship" show at Tokyo's Ariake Coliseum.

It seems these are no more than rumors yet, but there seems to be at least a couple of sources.

It looks like this is now official.

I am starting to doubt if this source is reliable... Zach Arnold at FightOpinion is though, and he has this article. As far as an official announcement, I guess we have to wait and see.

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11/23 ZST 22 - Kanehara in Tag-Team Fight

2009-11-13T20:44:00.003+02:00

ZST have announced an additional 3 fights for their 7 year anniversary card. Sengoku champion is making his highly anticipated return to ZST, but as expected it will not be a MMA rules fight. I am sure he already has one eye on NYE and he will be in a tag-team grappling fight against anothe Sengoku veteran, Tetsuya Yamada.

Daisuke Nakamura is fighting MMA rule though, and he is facing Naoyuki Kotani in a fight that will be very interesting.

Added:
Light: Naoyuki Kotani 19-9-6 vs. 20-10-0 Daisuke Nakamura
Light tag-team(grappling Rule 1x15min.):
Masanori Kanehara ＆ TBA vs. Takumi Yano & Tetsuya Yamada
Feather: Ko Inatsu vs. 8-3-5 Hiroshi "Iron" Nakamura

Previously Announced:
Light-Heavy (2x5min): Osami Shibuya 38-32-16 vs. 5-0-2 Nobutatsu Suzuki
Light (2x5min): Kenichi Ito 6-3-4 vs. 7-9-8 Masayuki Okude

SWAT Bouts:
Fly: Hiroyuki Aoh 1-1-0 vs. 4-2-0 Yuru Hayasaka
Bantam: Goro Kobayashi 5-4-5 vs. 7-7-4 Toshihiro Shimizu
Bantam: Kengo Okubo 1-3-0 vs. TBA
Feather: Kohei Kuraoka 7-3-0 vs. 3-0-0 Masamitsu Nakamura
Feather: Akira Omura 0-13-1 (2 NC) vs. 1-2-1 Shinya Irei
Feather (GT-F Rule): Hitoshi Makino vs. TBA
Light: Ryoji Suzuki 4-3-3 vs. 3-0-1 Motoki Osako
Light: Kota Okazawa 6-3-3 vs. 0-2-0 Takashi Yasui
Light: Yoshihiro Sato 0-3-0 vs. 0-1-0 Hiroshi Sato
Light (GT-F Rule): Hiroyuki Ota vs. Takahiro Futatsumori
Welter: Masayuki Hamagishi 2-2-3 vs. Hiroshi Takahashi
Middle: Keisuke Onuma 1-5-1 vs. 11-10-5 Hidenobu Koike

Genesis Bouts:
Fly: Tomoaki Ota vs. Shohei Watanabe
Fly: Keita Fukuhara vs. Hiroshi Koda
Bantam: Yosuke Hatori vs. Masatoshi Kondo
Light (GT-F Rule): Toshihisa Shinomiya vs. Evardo Santos

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12/19 DEEP Cage Impact 2009 - Obiya's Opponent Announced

2009-11-13T18:22:00.005+02:00

DEEP have announced the oppoent for their former champion Nobuhiro Obiya, he took care of Barbaro44 in his last fight, and now in his 2nd fight since returning he is taking on Toshikazu Iseno.

This card should be very good, and interesting. DEEP will test their cage for the first time, and it will be in Differ Ariake. Many of their star fighters are on this card and it will be huge.

Announced today:
Nobuhiro Obiya 10-3-1 vs. 7-5-2 Toshikazu Iseno
Ryuta Sakurai 19-15-5 vs. 3-3-4 Makoto "Hiroki" Miyazawa
Eiji Ishikawa 17-15-2 vs. 7-9-2 Yoshitomo Watanabe
Hirohide Fujinuma 6-4-2 vs. Inochi (?)
Teruhiko Kubo 8-9-1 vs. 4-2-0 Kenta Takagi
Hiryu Okamoto 3-3-1 vs. 2-1-0 Kaiji Hirano
Yasuhiro Kawasaki 3-1-1 vs. 1-0-0 Mitsuru "Mike" Yamaguchi

Previously Announced:
Masakazu Imanari 17-7-2 vs. 13-3-0 Justin "The Shocker" Cruz
Yusuke Kawaguchi 10-1-0 vs. 5-1-0 Roque Martinez
Bernard Ackah 3-3-0 vs. 4-1-1 Shunji Kosaka
Naoki Matsushita 11-12-9 vs. 7-4-8 Yuki Ito
Atsuhiro Tsuboi 6-12-4 vs. 4-0-1 Sadao Kondo

Participants:
Takeshi Yamazaki 14-10-2
Koichiro Matsumoto 8-2-0
Toshiaki Kitada 10-4-2
Yasuhiro Motomura 2-3-0
...and more

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11/23 ZST 22 - Fights Announced

2009-11-12T23:07:00.004+02:00

This will be a big ZST card in Differ Ariake. Participating will be Sengoku champion Masanori Kanehara, but today they have announced 16 fights, adding to the 2 they already had announced making it 18. Lots of good talent here, and with some awesome fighters yet to have opponents announced.

It will be a huge card! Doors open at 15:00, Genesis bouts start at 15:10.

SWAT Bouts:
Fly: Hiroyuki Aoh 1-1-0 vs. 4-2-0 Yuru Hayasaka
Bantam: Goro Kobayashi 5-4-5 vs. 7-7-4 Toshihiro Shimizu
Bantam: Kengo Okubo 1-3-0 vs. TBA
Feather: Kohei Kuraoka 7-3-0 vs. 3-0-0 Masamitsu Nakamura
Feather: Akira Omura 0-13-1 (2 NC) vs. 1-2-1 Shinya Irei
Feather (GT-F Rule): Hitoshi Makino vs. TBA
Light: Ryoji Suzuki 4-3-3 vs. 3-0-1 Motoki Osako
Light: Kota Okazawa 6-3-3 vs. 0-2-0 Takashi Yasui
Light: Yoshihiro Sato 0-3-0 vs. 0-1-0 Hiroshi Sato
Light (GT-F Rule): Hiroyuki Ota vs. Takahiro Futatsumori
Welter: Masayuki Hamagishi 2-2-3 vs. Hiroshi Takahashi
Middle: Keisuke Onuma 1-5-1 vs. 11-10-5 Hidenobu Koike

Genesis Bouts:
Fly: Tomoaki Ota vs. Shohei Watanabe
Fly: Keita Fukuhara vs. Hiroshi Koda
Bantam: Yosuke Hatori vs. Masatoshi Kondo
Light (GT-F Rule): Toshihisa Shinomiya vs. Evardo Santos

Previously Announced:
Light-Heavy (2x5min): Osami Shibuya 38-32-16 vs. 5-0-2 Nobutatsu Suzuki
Light (2x5min): Kenichi Ito 6-3-4 vs. 7-9-8 Masayuki Okude

Participants:
Masanori Kanehara 15-7-5
Naoyuki Kotani 19-9-6
Tetsuya Yamada 3-2-0
Shunichi Shimizu 15-5-7

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12/31 Fields Dynamite! - Masato's Opponent Announced

2009-11-12T20:04:00.002+02:00

FEG announced Masato's opponent today, ending speculations as to who he would face in his last fight. His opponent will be none other than Andy Souwer, Souwer have reached the World Max final 4 times, winning twice. He was also the losing finalist this year, so it is the popular choice. The veterans have faced eachother twice in the K-1 ring and Souwer has won on both occations.

Also announced was the final in the super-hulk tournament, Minowaman will face Sokoudjou.

Card so far:
K-1: Masato vs. Andy Souwer

Super-Hulk Final: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. 7-5-0 Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

K-1 Koshien (Highschool) Tournament Finals:
Final: Winner of SF 1 vs. Winner of SF 2
Reserve: Ryuya Kusakabe vs. Tsukasa Fuji
SF 1:Hiroya vs. Masaaki Noiri
SF 2: Katsuki Ishida vs. Shota Shimada

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Sakuraba's Dynamite Opponent (Rumors)

2009-11-11T19:31:00.005+02:00

There has been a lot of discussion around Sakuraba's possible opponents.

Nightmare of Battle have their eyes on Misaki, who recently left Grabaka, his long time gym and his nick-name "Grabaka Hitman".

Rumor has it that his days in the Sengoku organisation might also be over (part of Grabaka and Sengoku deal), and he could be heading for Dream, Dynamite and Sakuraba!

Another rumored is Daiju Takase, as Gryphon has put up on his twitter, it is a better opponent for Sakuraba:

SAKURABA's NY eve opponent,one of the candidate is TAKASE Daiju? http://bit.ly/Kpkmc...

this reason is from kamipro special article too. this bloggers guess,article's hint is same as TAKASE Daiju ,they said...

Kamipro's hint ..."If this card come true,Impact is big""It looks not serious,.but actually be very serious ""SAK'll show us his grappling"...

it means TAKASE Daiju? this is not only rumor but also reasonable expection from magazine...

2 rumored opponents and I think Takase is the most likely, but anything can happen and its a long time until NYE.

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11/10 DEEP & CMA Fans Thanksgiving - Results

2009-11-10T20:22:00.002+02:00

The CMA and DEEP fans thanks giving event earlier today. Some very good fighters and fights on the card, among them Minowaman, Atsushi Yamamoto, Hidetaka Monma and Ryuta Noji.

Main Event Pro-Wrestling Tag-Match:
10. Minowaman & Minoru Suzuki Def. Nozawa & MAZADA by leglock 19:28

KPW Heavyweight Title fight
9. over 93kg: Ryuta Noji Def. Ryan Goodman by TKO Round 2 3:54

8. MMA Rule 63kg: Atsushi Yamamoto Def. Kyung Ho Kang by Decision 3-0
7. MMA-Rule 77kg: Hidetaka Monma Def. Dong Hyun Kim by Decision 3-0
6. MMA Rule 93kg: Dool Hee Lee Def. Ryushi Yanagisawa by Decision 3-0
5. MMA Rule Female 51kg: Yuko "Amiba" Oya Def. Miyo Yoshida by decision 2-0
4. MMA Rule 67kg: Nozomu Oikawa Def. Cho Sun チョ・スンピル by Rear-naked choke Round 2 3:34
3. MMA Rule Female 58kg: Miki Morifuji Def. Lee Han Suk by Decision 3-0
2. MMA Rule 70kg: Bak Woo Hyun Def. Tsuyoshi Masuda by TKO Round 1 1:08
1. MMA Rule 67kg: O In Suk Def. Takayuki Ota by TKO Round 1 0:42

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11/14 Demolition West Project - Fight Order

2009-11-09T18:41:00.002+02:00

GCM Demolition West Project will be in Sekaikan Theatre this Saturday. There is a bantamweight tournament, the winner will be fighting in Cage Force.

Some talented fighters on this card, also some kids fighting, something that is sure to attract the loud parents.

Cage Force Bantamweight Selection Tournament Round 1 (2x5min):
Main event: Yuki Ueshima 8-2-0 vs. 4-3-1 Yasuaki "AKI" Nagamoto
Hiroto Hattori 8-3-1 vs. 0-1-1 Kazuya Kawabata

Welter (2x5min.): Hiroki "Goodman" Tanaka 15-8-3 vs. 0-1-0 Noriyuki Kitaura

Cage Force Bantamweight Selection Tournament Round 1 (2x5min):
Mamoru Uoi 0-1-2 vs. Ikkyu san
Shinji Mikami 1-0-0 vs. 1-2-0 Takamasa Miki

Fly (2x5min.): Kotetsu vs. Naohira Takamatsu
Female Welter (3x3min): Mizuho Sato vs. Chisa Yonezawa
Kids MMA Rule (2x2min) (protection worn): 寅希 Ueda vs. Mitsuyo Sugihara
Kids Grappling Rule (1x4min): Uzuha Kashiwabara vs. Kaito Nakamura

Opening Fights:
Bantam: Gacchami Furumi vs. Akihiro Okunishi
-52kg: Yamato Okada vs. Naoya Urashima
Feather: Hiroaki Nakayama vs. Hiroyuki Mori

Tickets:
SRS　8,000円
RS Sold out
B　4,000円
A Sold out
At the door, add 500円

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12/31 Fields Dynamite! - Tickets Selling Fast

2009-11-09T18:07:00.002+02:00

FEG have announced that the VIP seats for this year's Dynamite event are sold out! These tickets cost JPY 100,000, and this should mean an important income for FEG. Of course, it also means that the Masato fight is selling very well because there is not much else official yet.

Will be interesting to see if Sengoku can sell their VIP tickets. I would assume the Ishii debut will attract some Judo fans to that event.

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11/7 Sengoku 11 - Results LIVE

2009-11-07T08:31:00.018+02:00

The results I can, will be live. But I think I will miss most of this awesome event today.

I will update live as long as I can. If you want the live results, you can try the discussion thread, otherwise I will updata as soon as I have the chance.

Opening Fight:
1. Bantam: Ryota Uozomi Def. Yuichiro Yajima by armbar Round 2

Main-Card:
2. Feather: Ronnie Ushiwaka Def. Shigeki Osawa by Decision 3-0
Ushikawa shows his experience here. Osawa shows he is a good wrestler, but it was not enough on this occation. Competitive fight and Osawa shows he has a lot of potential.

3. Heavy: Dave Herman Def. "Big" Jim York by KO round 1
"Big" Jim York is controlling the fight standing, then he goes for a achilles hold and Herman gets an opening for heel kicks. "Big" Jim is out.

4. Feather: Marlon Sandro Def. Yuji Hoshino by KO round 1
A big right from the Pancrase champion sends the Cage Force fighter to the ground.

5. Welter: Akihiro Gono Def. Yoon Young Kim by Decision 3-0
After 2 close rounds Gono gets his confidence back in the 3rd. Gono did what he wanted in the 3rd. except finish the fight. Kim showed a lot of heart by staying in the fight.

Gono says he wants a re-match with Hornbuckle, after he gets the title! Gono wants Hornbuckle to be the belt, and be the first to challenge for that!

6. Light-Heavy: Stanislav Nedkov Def. Kevin Randleman by Decision 2-1
A very close fight.

I have to leave now, the rest of the results will be delayed... Sorry about the inconvenience!

7. Light: Kazunori Yokota Def. Eiji Mitsuoka by Decision 3-0

Fight Of The Soul (Intermission, I will guess it is here):
Feather: Tomoaki Ueyama Def. Hirokazu "Bull" Konno by rear-naked choke Round 1

8. Light: Jorge Masvidal Def.Satoru Kitaoka by KO Round 2

Double Main-Event:
9. Middle: Mamed Khalidov Def. Jorge Santiago by KO/TKO hammerfists from the bottom!!

10. Feather: Michihiro Omigawa Def. Hatsu Hioki by Decision 2-1
Good finish to the fight! Hioki looked in control, but Omigawa came strong and never stopped going forward.

For the second time I think the judges give it to Omigawa in a fight I thought he.

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11/7 Sengoku 11 - Weigh-in

2009-11-06T19:48:00.004+02:00

Sengoku held their weigh-in for the big event tomorrow and it looks like it will be another awesome day for MMA.

Bloody Elbow have posted the weigh-in results and betting odds here. There are some good value bets in there, Hoshino is my favorite, but he is worth a bet at +500. It might also be worth putting a penny on Omigawa at +400.

FW: Hatsu Hioki (64.9kg / 143 lbs) vs. Michihiro Omigawa (64.9kg / 143 lbs)
MW: Jorge Santiago (83kg / 182.9 lbs) vs. Mamed Khalidov (82.4kg / 181.6 lbs)
LW: Satoru Kitaoka (70kg / 154.3 lbs) vs. Jorge Masvidal (70kg / 154.3 lbs)
LW: Kazunori Yokota (69.7kg / 153.6 lbs) vs. Eiji Mitsuoka (70kg / 154.3 lbs)
LHW: Kevin Randleman (92.1kg / 203 lbs) vs. Stanislav Nedkov (92.5kg / 203.9 lbs)
WW: Akihiro Gono (76kg / 167.5 lbs) vs. Yoon Young Kim (75.8kg / 167.1 lbs)
FW: Marlon Sandro (65kg / 143.3 lbs) vs. Yuji Hoshino (65kg / 143.3 lbs)
HW: Dave Herman (108.7kg / 239.6 lbs) vs. Jim York (116.3kg / 256.3 lbs)
FW: Shigeki Osawa (64.8kg / 142.8 lbs) vs. Ronnie Mann (64.6kg / 142.4 lbs)

"Fight of the Soul" (Intermission) - Featherweight - 2R x 5 min.
Hirokazu "Bull" Konno (64.8kg / 142.8 lbs) vs. Tomoaki Ueyama (64.7kg /42.6 lbs)

Opening Bout - Bantamweight - 2R x 5 min.
Yuichiro Yajima (56.8kg / 125.2 lbs) vs. Ryota Uozomi (56.8kg / 125.2 lbs)

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12/5 K-1 World GP - Reserve Fights Announced

2009-11-06T10:24:00.006+02:00

FEG have announced a super-fight, opening fights and reserve fights for this card. The GP fights have been set, and it is looking more open than it has in a while. Semmy Schilt has proven to be beatable and that opens up for a lot of interesting matchups this time.

A lot of people are holding Badr Hari as the favorite after his demolition of Semmy in May.

With an outside chance at the title are the reserve fighters, Peter Aerts will take on Turkish Gokhan Saki, while Romanian Daniel Ghita takes on Chalid "Die Faust".

World GP Reserve Fights (3x3min 1r ext.):
Peter Aerts vs. Gokhan Saki
Daniel Ghita vs. Chalid "Die Faust"

Super-Fight (3x3min 1r ext.):
Kyotaro vs. Tyrone Spong

Opening Fights (3x3min):
Jan Soukup vs. Tsutomu Takahagi
60kg: Keiichi Samukawa vs. Ryuji Kajiwara

Previously Announced:
World GP Quarter Finals (3x3min. 1r Ext.):
QF1:Ruslan Karaev vs. Badr Hari
QF2: Alistair Overeem vs. Ewerton Teixeira
QF3: Jerome Le Banner vs. Semmy Schilt
QF4: Errol Zimmerman vs. Remy Bonjasky

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11/18 ShootBoxing Bushido Part 5 - Fight Order

2009-11-03T19:37:00.003+02:00

ShootBoxing have announced the fight order for their next event, as always in Korakuen Hall.

These tickets usually sell really well, and I am sure this time will be no different. 2 thai fighters on the card and on in the main event taking on the ShootBoxing champion, Takaaki Umeno in a 5 round fight.

Also on the card is the female S-Cup winner Rena, she is taking on SmackGirl and Valkyrie veteran Emi Fujino.

Main Event - Expert Class-Rule (5x3min. ext until winner deceided):
12. 70kg: Takaaki Umeno vs. Chokdee Por. Pramuk

Expert Class-Rule (3x3min. ext until winner deceided):
11. 70kg: Kenji Kanai vs. Daisuke Tsutsumi
10. 70kg: Takeshi Ishikawa vs. Uirachai Saktui (?)

Ladies Class-Rule (3x2min ext. 1R):
9. Rena vs. Emi Fujino
8. Mei "V Hajime" Yamaguchi vs. Etsu Senchaigym
7. Ai Takahashi vs. TBA

Expert Class-Rule (3x3min. ext until winner deceided):
6. Alex Roberts vs. Masahiro Iwashita
5. Kazuyuki Fushimi vs. Daisuke Murata
4. Tatsuhiro Takashima vs. Takashi Moto

Opening Fights (Starting Rule 3x2min 1 ext.):
3. Yuji Sugawara vs. TBA
2. Kensaku Sugiyama vs. Masaya Matsuhana
1. Masatomo Kawachi vs. YukiSakamoto

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