10/28 ShootBoxing – Ground Zero Tokyo

Next weekend’s Shoot Boxing tournament Next weekend’s Shoot Boxing tournament will feature some big stars. Among them, this year`s K-1 World Max champion, Andy Souwer, Deep Lightweight champion Kazunori Yokota, K-1 veteran Andy Kraus and Japanese MMA veteran Hayato “Mach” Sakurai.

The rules for Shoot Boxing are similar to what you have in K-1, but standing throws and submissions are permitted. So in addition to kicks, punches and knees, expect chokes and suplexes.

The card looks like this:
(there might be another couple of fights added)

Hiroyuki Abe vs. Oikawa Tomohiro
Sakuragi Yuji Vs. Gilbert Yvel
Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Ali Ibrahim
Kazunori Yokota vs. Fadil Shabali (not sure on spelling)Andy Souwer vs. Andy OlogunOgata Kenichi vs. Andy KrausIshikawa Tsuyoshi vs. Murahama TakehiroMelfio Canoretti (not sure on spelling) vs Hirokazu Kikuchi
Big Ben Kesajim vs. Shishido Daiki