7/17 DEEP/M-1 - Challenge 5 - RESULTS

I went out to M-1 Challenge today and it was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed the fights, in particular Nakamura vs. Cristea was very entertaning! How Cristea managed to get out of that many arm-bars is beyond me, but is was a lot of fun to watch. Unfortunately, he lost a decision but I was impressed!

Otherwise all the teams performed great! Of course, I expected the Japanese to win at home, but they were crushed by a very good Dutch team!!!

***UPDATE***
It was not Mike Hayakawa that fought in this event... It was "Mike" from Blue Dog Gym... "Mike" Hayakawa is fighting in Shooto tonight.

The other results:

Superfight: Tatsuya Mizuno Def. Yoshiyuki Nakanishi by KO round 1 4:13

Japan vs. Nederlands: +93kg: Jessie Gibson Def. Katsuhisa Fujii by KO round 1 1:34
Japan vs. Nederlands: 93kg: Kamil Uygun Def. Yuji Sakuragi TKO Round 1 (well placed knee)
Japan vs. Nederlands: 84kg: Jason Jones Def. Yuta Watanabe by TKO round 2 2:03
Japan vs. Nederlands: 76kg: Romano delos Reyes Def. Ken Hamamura by decision 2-0
Japan vs. Nederlands: 70kg: Daisuke Nakamura Def. Bogdan Cristea by Decision 3-0

Super-fight: Yuki Ito Def. Takaaki Aoki by decision 2-0
Super-fight: Seigo Inoue Def. "Mike" by decision 2-0

France Vs. USA: +93kg: Malick Ndiaye Def. James Jack by Key-lock Round 1 3:54
France Vs. USA: 93kg: Christian Mpumbu Ndjoku Def. Barry Guerin by TKO Round 1 0:32
France Vs. USA: 84kg: Karl Amoussou Def. Mike Dolce by TKO round 2 0:41
France Vs. USA: 76kg: Jake Ellenberger Def. Farouk Lakebir by decision 2-0
France Vs. USA: 70kg: Keith Perrigon Def. Samuel Judes by TKO Round 1 3:16

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7/17 DEEP/M-1 - Challenge 5

Tomorrow M-1 Challenge 5 kicks off my long weekend packed with MMA. I cant wait! There has been a couple of changes since I first posted the card, so here is what it looks like now.

This should be a good event, there are 13 fights on the card and that should be enough for some solid entertainment.

The fight-order is announced:

13. Main-Event: Superfight: Tatsuya Mizuno 3-3-0 vs. 3-0-0Yoshiyuki Nakanishi

12. Japan vs. Nederlands: +93kg: Katsuhisa Fujii 8-14-1 vs. 4-1-0 Jessie Gibson
11. Japan vs. Nederlands: 93kg: Yuji Sakuragi 9-11-1 vs. 4-2-0 Kamil Uygun
10. Japan vs. Nederlands: 84kg: Yuta Watanabe 8-1-3 vs. 4-3-0 Jason Jones
9. Japan vs. Nederlands: 76kg: Ken Hamamura 14-4-4 vs. 7-5-0 Romano delos Reyes
8. Japan vs. Nederlands: 70kg: Daisuke Nakamura 14-9-0 vs.4-2-1 Bogdan Cristea

7. Super-fight: Yuki Ito 6-2-3 vs. 4-3-0 Takaaki Aoki
6. Super-fight: Seigo Inoue 3-3-1 vs. 1-3-2 Nobuhiro "Mike" Hayakawa

5. France Vs. USA: +93kg: Malick Ndiaye 1-1-0 vs. 2-1-0 James Jack
4. France Vs. USA: 93kg: Christian Mpumbu Ndjoku vs. 5-0-0 Bryan Harper
3. France Vs. USA: 84kg: Karl Amoussou 6-1-1 vs. 3-4-0 Mike Dolce
2. France Vs. USA: 76kg: Farouk Lakebir 2-0-0 vs. 17-4-0 Jake Ellenberger
1. France Vs. USA: 70kg: Samuel Judes 2-1-0 vs. 1-0-0 Keith Perrigon

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