9/26 HEAT 11 - Fights Announced

Feels like a very long time since Heat held their 1st event in Tokyo, Heat 8 was in December last year. Now they are holding Heat 11 and it will be the first time they have back to back events in Differ Ariake.

Heat 10 was suppose to be the big event, with the finals of the heavyweight tournaments. However, it didnt quite work out as planned when the main event ended in a no contest. The result is that they will have another attempt at determining the Heat heavyweight MMA champion on the HEAT 11 card. Sentoryu will yet again step into the cage and face Christiano Kaminishi.

Also on the card is the Iranian K-1 veteran Prince Ali, he will be taking on the the very experienced Gotoku Onda.

Hiromi Amada will enter the cage for the first time as the champion, and will be taking on Emeka The Black Samurai. I have seen Emeka on some Smokers cards, and this should be a good challenge for him.

Heavyweight Tournament Final:
Henry Miller "Sentoryu" vs. Cristiano Kaminishi

Kick-Heavy: Prince Ali vs. Gotoko Onda
Kick-Heavy: Hiromi Amada vs. Emeka The Black Samurai
MMA-Heavy: Ryo Takigawa 3-2-0 vs. 5-3-2 Shunsuke Inoue
MMA-Feather: Koji Yoshida 3-5-2 vs. 2-5-0 Toshikatsu "Toshi" Harada

Participants:
Danilo Zanolini

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3/28 HEAT 9 - RESULTS Tournament Champions Crowned

Heat held 2 tournament finals and the heavyweight tournaments semi-finals on Saturday. The main event was the welterweight final and title fight between 2 very talented fighters in Justin Holdaas and Max Fernandes. In the middleweight Kick-rule final, Thai Fabiakato "RS Promotion" Lukafa took on Kinji.

The heavyweight tournament had some big semi-finals as well. Ryuta Noji was a late replacement for Dong Yi Yang, and was taking on Pride veteran Sentoryu. The other semi-final saw Christiano Kaminishi take on Sang Soo Lee.

Tournament Finals:
Welter MMA Final: Max Fernandes Def. Justin Holdaas by arm-bar Round 1 1:00
Middle Kick Final: Fabiakato "RS Promotion" Lukafa Def. Kinji by Decision 3-0

Heavyweight Semi-Finals:
MMA: Sentoryu Def. Ryuta Noji by KO Round 1 1:14
MMA: Christiano Kaminishi Def. Sang Soo Lee by Decision 3-0
Kick: Makoto Uehara Def. Goutoku Onda by KO ext. Round
Kick: Hiromi Amada Def. Moon Bo Ram by Decision 2-0

Non-Tournament Fights:
Middle Kick: Danilo Zanolini Def. Hideto Yamada by KO Round 2 1:45
Middle Kick: Yuzo Matsumoto Def. Masatoshi Hyakutake by Decision 3-0
Welter MMA: Jonathan Visitante Def. Toshinari Takashima by Decision 2-1

New Age:
MMA (70kg): Masaomi Kamino Def. Kosaburo Muramatsu by KO Round 2 3:57

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3/28 HEAT 9 - Fights Announced

A few of the fights on this card have been ready for a while, but there have been some additions outside the tournaments too. With 4 days left, this card shoule be just about final.

If you are in Nagoya, I would strongly suggest going out to this one! There are some really good fighters on the card and it should be a fun event. The event is taking place in Nagoya.

There has been a major change to the heavyweight tournament, Dong Yi Yang, who defeated Ryuta Noji in the previous round is out due to an injury sustained during practice. Noji is stepping in to take his spot against Sentoryu, though I think the loss of Yang is bad for the tournament, Sentoryu vs. Ryuta Noji will be a very entertaining match-up.

A bit of the history of the tournaments here.

Tournament Finals:
Welter MMA Final: Justin Holdaas 2-1-0 vs. 3-0-0 Max Fernandes
Middle Kick Final: Fabiakato "RS Promotion" Lukafa vs. Kinji

Heavyweight Semi-Finals:
MMA: Sentoryu 4-7-0 vs. 7-4-0 Ryuta Noji
MMA: Christiano Kaminishi 5-1-0 vs. 11-6-0 Sang Soo Lee
Kick: Goutoku Onda vs. Makoto Uehara
Kick: Hiromi Amada vs. Moon Bo Ram

Non-Tournament Fights:
Middle Kick: Danilo Zanolini vs. Hideto Yamada
Middle Kick: Yuzo Matsumoto vs. Masatoshi Hyakutake
Welter MMA: Toshinari Takashima 3-3-2 vs. Jonathan Visitante

New Age:
MMA (70kg): Masaomi Kamino vs. 2-2-1 Kosaburo Muramatsu

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3/28 HEAT 9 - Heavyweight Tournament Semi-Finals Announced

HEAT 9 in Nagoya is going to be a very good event. They have announced the finals for the welterweight MMA tournament and the Middleweight Kick tournament. Today they have announced the match-ups for the heavyweight MMA and Kick rule tournaments.

There is a good mix of experienced and talented fighters on this card, Pride veteran Sentoryu is fighting in the MMA rules semi-finals, and so is Sengoku veteran Dong Yi Yang. Sentoryu will actually face Yang in the semi-finals, and that should be a very interesting fight.

The other semi-final in the MMA rule tournament sees Christiano Kaminishi face Sang Soo Lee. Lee holds a win over Roman Zentsov, but Kaminishi is a very talented guy his only loss came by a very close decision.

Announced:
MMA Rule - Heavyweight Semi-Finals
Henry "Sentoryu" Miller 4-7-0 vs. 4-0-0 Dong Yi Yang
Christiano Kaminishi 5-1-0 vs. 11-5-0 Sang Soo Lee

Kick-Rule - Heavyweight Semi-Finals
Goutok Onda vs. Makoto Uehara
Hiromi Amada vs. Moon Bo Ram

Previously announced:
Welterweight MMA Rule Tournament Final:
Justin Holdaas 2-1-0 vs. 3-0-0 Max Fernandez

Middleweight Kick Rule Tournament Final:
Fabikat RS Promotion vs. Kinji

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3/28 HEAT 9 - Tournament Finals

HEAT has had a welterweight MMA rules and a middleweight kick-rule tournaments going. They have now reached the finals of these tournaments and they should be very good.

For the MMA rules, 2 relatively unknown fighters will face eachother. Justin Holdaas defeated Yoshitaro Niimi in his semi final. He will face Max Fernandez, who defeated Hyong Yo Im in his semi final. Both these fighters are very talented, and I am sure we will hear from both in the future. As for predicitons, this should be a very close fight. Fernandez being more a BJJ specialist, Holdaas more a wrestling base, personally I think the cage gives a slight advantage to wrestlers. Watch out for Max Fernandez's submissions though, he has finished all his 3 fights in a combined time of 3:45!

This is the MMA-Rule HEAT Welterweight title belt:


In the kick-rule middleweight final, Thai fighter Fabiakato "RS Promotion" Lukafa will face Japanese Kinji. This should also be a good and close fight, but I would give a slight advantage to the Thai fighter in this one.

This is the HEAT Kick-Rule Middleweight title belt:


Also on the card will be the heavyweight kick- and MMA-rule semi-finals. There are some very good fighters in both of these tournaments as well!

Welterweight MMA-Rule Tournament Final:
Justin Holdaas vs. 3-0-0 Max Fernandez

Middleweight Kick-Rule Tournament Final:
Fabiakato "RS Promotion" Lukafa (?) vs. Kinji

Heavyweight MMA-Rule Semi-Final Participants:
Sentoryu 4-7-0
Dong Yi Yang 4-0-0
Christiano Kaminishi 5-1-0
Sang Soo Lee 11-5-0

Heavyweight Kick-Rule Tournament Semi-Final Participants:
Makoto Uehara
Moon Bo Ram
Hiromi Amada
Goutoku Onda

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7/13 HEAT 7 - Results

Yesterday HEAT 7 kicked off what will be a very busy week for me. It was never part of MMA-Week, but it almost made it when SmackGirl was postponed.

In the event yesterday, 2 Kiwi fighters went into the ring in Nagoya and I was ment to post this earlier... Anyway, Rogue Magazine had an interview with Andrew Peck and Jason Suttie before their flight out to Japan. Unfortunately, the results were not what they expected, but I am sure they will fight back!

Also, for those who are FightLinker fans (I am one myself), I know you want to have a look at the ring-girls for this one. For this event we had Kana Kusumaki (top left), Yuzuki Kondo, Shizuki (bottom left) and Mana.

The event was mainly a round 1 of the various tournaments Heat will have this year, here are the results (in no particular order):

MMA-Rule Heavyweight Tournament Round 1:
Lee Sang Soo Def. Amazon Juninho by decision 3-0
Christiano Kaminishi Def. Minoru Kato by Decision 3-0

Kick-Rule Heavyweight Tournament Round 1:
Gotoku Onda Def. Jason Suttie by decision 2-0

Kick-Rule Middleweight Tournament　Round 1:
Yuzo Matsumoto Def. Nathan Willet by decision 3-0
Kinji Def. Park Eun Seok by KO Round 1 1:28

MMA-Rule Welterweight Tournament Round 1:
Yoshitaro Nimi Def. Jun Kito by rear-naked choke Round 1 2:49
Justin Holdaas Def. Pedro Akira by KO Round 2 4:34

Kick-Rule Heavyweight Special Fight:
Ali Reza Kabasi Def. Andrew Peck by KO Round 2 2:03

New-Age Fights:
Kick-Rule: Gaku Sakai vs. Masaaki Noiri Draw
Kick-Rule: Takao Niki Def. Yoshiharu Ono by decision 3-0
MMA-Rule: Kazuyosi Hioki Def. Kozaburo Muramatsu by decision 3-0
MMA-Rule: Hironobu Yoshida vs. YUSUKE Draw

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7/13 HEAT 7 - ZAPP Nagoya

From the 13th to the 24th July there will be lots of events happening in Japan. In Nagoya HEAT is holding the 1st round in a couple of tournaments they will have this year. The card looks like this:

MMA-Rule Heavyweight Tournament Round 1:
Amazon Juninho vs. Lee Sang Soo
Minoru Kato vs. Christiano Kaminishi

Kick-Rule Heavyweight Tournament Round 1:
Gotoku Onda vs. Jason Suｔｔie

Kick-Rule Middleweight Tournament　Round 1:
Yuzo Matsumoto vs. Nathan Willet
Kinji vs. Park Eun Seok

MMA-Rule Welterweight Tournament Round 1:
Yoshitaro Nimi vs. Jun Kito
Pedro Akira vs. Justin Holdaas

New-Age Fights:
Kick-Rule: Gaku Sakai vs. Masaaki Noiri
Kick-Rule: Yoshiharu Ono vs. Takao Niki
MMA-Rule: Kazuyosi Hioki vs. Kozaburo Muramatsu
MMA-Rule: Hironobu Yoshida vs. YUSUKE

Ticket Prices:
Premium Seat (20 available) 25,000円SRS 18,000円/RS 13,000円/S 8,000円/Standing 5,000円
at the door +500円

English information here:http://heatofficial.com/english
HEAT has posted videos from past events here:http://heatofficial.com/category/video

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