This Weekend's events - Shooto and HEAT!

A very busy weekend is coming up! It has been an amazing few weeks and after this weekend there should be a short break before the NYE events are coming up.

This weekend I will attend HEAT, for the first time with press credentials! That means the weekend will be even busier than usual, but is should be a lot more fun too! I am really excited about this event.

But before HEAT on Sunday, I am going to the Shooto Rookie Tournament Finals on Saturday. This should also be a very good event, in the intimate settings of Shinjuku Face. The Shooto Rookie Tournament never disappoints, and the next Shooto stars will fight in this event. It is just packed with talent!

There are still a few tickets available, but this event will be sold out! You can see the card here.

The HEAT event is on Sunday, but I will be at the weigh-in and pre-fight press conferance tomorrow (Saturday). This is an event I have been looking forward to for a long time. HEAT, being in Nagoya, is an organization I dont know too much about. But I have been following them, as they have been putting on good shows. They are one of only 2 organizations in Japan that uses the cage rather than the ring, and the put on both MMA and Kick rule fights.

HEAT is only putting on their 8th show, but already some established stars have stepped into the HEAT Cage. Some names from previous events includes: Yasuhito Namekawa, Satoko Shinashi, Yoshihiro "Barbaro44" Tomioka,Hatsu Hioki, Ikuhisa Minowa, Gil Freitas and making a return this time also Henry Miller "Sentoryu".

The main purpose for HEAT this year, is to hold tournaments and establish champions. Sunday's event will include both welter- and heavyweight tournament fights. I will break that down in a different post.

The card for Sunday is here. The event is in Differ Ariake and there are still tickets available!

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12/14 HEAT 8 - In Tokyo!

HEAT is coming to Tokyo! Normally they hold their events in Nagoya, but in December HEAT is taking their show on the road and hitting Differ Ariake! I have never been to a HEAT event (actually never been to Nagoya), but from what I have seen of them they put on a good show. I have put a couple of videos on the bottom so you can see what it looks like. The rules are no elbows (both Kick and MMA rule).

Not sure how to spell his name... Fabiakato Lukafa has 115 pro Muay Thai fight with a W-L record of 90-25 and a pro-boxing record of 14-1.

Announced so far:
HEAT Kick-Rule Middleweight Tournament
Jotaro Usui vs. Fabiakato "RS Promotion" Lukafa (?)
Yuso Matsumoto vs. Kinji

HEAT MMA-Rule Welterweight Tournament
Max Fernandez 2-0-0 vs. 1-0-0 Hyong Yo Im
Yoshitaro Niimi 6-2-2 vs. 1-1-0 Justin Holdaas

There will also be heavyweight fights, both MMA (2 fights) and Kick-rule (3 fights) tournament fights.

This is a fight with Kick-Rule, Tatsufumi Tomihira vs. Big Mo from HEAT 4 August 11 2007.


MMA Fight: Hiroshi Uemura vs. Seo Su In from the same event.

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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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7/13 HEAT 7 - ZAPP Nagoya

If you're in Nagoya, HEAT is the organization to watch. They attract some good fighters and are putting both MMA and K-1 rule fights in the same event. HEAT 7 will feature a number of tournaments and I am sure there will be lots of good fights to watch.

Make sure you check out the links I put on the bottom, there are some videos worth watching and some information in English on the HEAT site.

I am sure there will be some additions to the tournaments.

Participants:
HEAT Kick Rule　Middleweight Tournament （70kg）1st round
-Yuzo Matsumoto
-Kinji
-Nathan Willet

HEAT MMA Rule Welterweight Tournament（77.1kg）1st round
-Jun Kitou
-Akira Pedro
-Justin Holdaas

HEAT Kick Rule　Heavyweight Tournament（100kg）1st round
-Gotoku Onda
-Jason Suttie

HEAT MMA Rule Heavyweight （Open weight）1st Round
-Christiano Kaminishi
-Lee Sang Soo
-Amazon Juninho

New-Age Fights:
60kg Kick-Rule: Gaku Sakai vs. Masaaki Noiri
65kg Kick-Rule: Yoshiharu Ono vs. Takao Niki
70kg MMA-Rule: Kazuyoshi Hioki vs. Kouzaburou Muramatsu
70kg 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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3/30 HEAT 6 - RESULTS

Better late than never... Been so busy the last few weeks that I forgot that HEAT 6 was on in Nagoya.

At least I did remeber to post the card and the picutres of the ring-girls a while back. Anyway, the results.

Kick-Rule: Tatsufumi Tomihira Def. Ii Yo Sep(イ・ヨセプ) by KO Round 2 0:19
MMA-Rule: Ryuta Noji Def. Ho Min Sok (ホ・ミンソク) by TKO Round 2 0:01
MMA-Rule: Kazuhisa Tazawa Def. Ii San Su (イ・サンス) by arm-bar Round 1 1:49
MMA-Rule: Gil Freitas Def. Masataka Chinushi by knee-bar Round 1 4:47
Kick-Rule (MT): Jotaro Usui Def. Jyunichi Maruyama by decision 3-0
MMA-Rule (WT): Max Fernandes Def. Naoki Kimura by knee-bar
Kick-Rule (MT): Fabikat RS Promotion Def. Danilo Zanolini by TKO Round 3 3:00
MMA-Rule (WT): Imu Hyon Gyu Def. Masu “Bucchi” Hiro by TKO round 1 3:47
Kick-Rule (MT Reserve fight): King Kohei Def. Shunsuke Oishi by decision 2-1

New-Age Fights:
MMA-Rule: Yasutomo Katsuki Def. Daiki Suzuki by result 3-0
Kick-Rule: Hiroaki Suzuki Def. Gaku Sakai by TKO

(MT)=Middleweight Tournament
(WT)=Welterweight Tournament

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3/30 HEAT 6 - Tournaments Round 1

HEAT is holding the first round of their MMA and Kick rule tournaments in Nagoya March 30. This is block A for both the tournaments, block B is being held in July or August with semi-finals and finals in November and March next year.

If you're in Nagoya, this is a good event to go to.

They have a good site for the ring-girls too (been a while since I've had any of them, so here you go):
More pictures here and here

Samantha Gonçalves

Carol Pontes

The card for HEAT 6:

Kick-Rule: Tatsufumi Tomihira vs. Ii Yo Sep(イ・ヨセプ)
MMA-Rule: Ryuta Noji 6-3-0 vs. Ho Min Sok (ホ・ミンソク)
MMA-Rule: Kazuhisa Tazawa 2-0-0 vs. Ii San Su (イ・サンス)
MMA-Rule: Masataka Chinushi 1-3-1 vs. 5-1-0 Gil Freitas
Kick-Rule (MT): Jotaro Usui vs. Jyunichi Maruyama
MMA-Rule (WT): Naoki Kimura 4-1-2 vs. 1-0-0 Max Fernandes
Kick-Rule (MT): TBA vs. Fabikat RS Promotion
MMA-Rule (WT): Masu “Bucchi” Hiro vs. Imu Hyon Gyu(イム・ヒョンギュ)
Kick-Rule (MT Reserve fight): Shunsuke Oishi vs. King Kohei

New-Age Fights:
MMA-Rule: Daiki Suzuki vs. Yasutomo Katsuki
Kick-Rule: Gaku Sakai vs. Hiroaki Suzuki

(MT)=Middleweight Tournament
(WT)=Welterweight Tournament

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