2/28 DEEP 46 Impact - Light-Heavyweight Tournament Announced

Deep have announced a light-heavyweight tournament for their event on February 28 in Korakuen Hall. It looks like it will be interesting, but I thought Bernard Ackah would be in there somehow. We will have to wait and see what happens.

In addition to that, there are some good fights added to the card too. Riki Fukuda will take on Rings veteran Hiromitsu Kanehara.

Paraestra Chiba's Toshiaki Kitada will take on another tough opponent in DEEP favorite "Barbaro44".

DEEP Light-Heavyweight Tournament Round 1:
-Ryuta Noji 8-5-0
-Katsuhisa Fujii 9-17-1
-Shunsuke Inoue 7-4-2
-Yuji Sakuragi 11-15-1
-Yoshiyuki Nakanishi 5-1-0
-Minoru Kato  2-8-3
-Carlos Toyota 3-3-1
-Christian “Tonton” M’Pumbu 14-2-1

Non-Tournament Fights
Riki Fukuda 15-4-0 vs 18-22-2 Hiromitsu Kanehara
Yoshihiro "Barbaro44" Tomioka 14-7-6 vs. 10-4-3 Toshiaki Kitada
Eiji Ishikawa 18-15-2 vs. 8-12-3 Shigetoshi Iwase
Hiroshi “Iron” Nakamura 9-3-5 vs. 7-9-4 Isao Terada
Yasushi Kitazaki 10-6-1 vs. 0-1-1 Yuta Aoyama
Takashige "Crazy Hill" Hirukawa 2-1-0 vs. 2-0-0 Yoshiki Harada

Participating:
Hidehiko Hasegawa 18-12-6

Tickets:
VIP 15,000円　
SRS 10,000円
A 8,000円　
B 6,000円
C 5,000円

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6/6 Shooting Disco 9 - RESULTS

As always, an exciting card in Shinjuku Face earlier today. The main event ended in spectacular fashion just 20 seconds in.

Also on the card was an important fight to sort out the flyweight rankings, and I think we should expect a title fight in the weight division soon.

Lots of exciting fighters on the card, including a couple of fights in this years rookie tournament, spoilers if you read on.


Main-Event:
10. Light: Taiki Tsuchiya Def. Shintaro Ishiwatari by KO Round 1 0:20

9. Fly: Noburo "Shinpei" Tahara Def. Shinya Murofushi by TKO round 3 4:09
8. Welter: Guy Delameau vs. Yukinari "Hibiki" Tamura DRAW 0-0
7. Middle: Yoichiro Sato Def. Akihiro Murayama by Decision 3-0
6. Light: Naohiro Mizuno Def. Yuji Inoue by Decision 3-0
5. Light: Hidenori Nishino vs. Kosuke Kindaichi DRAW 1-0
4. Bantam: Tatsuya Nakashima Def. Joji Shimada by Decision 2-0

Rookie Tournament 2nd Round:
3. Bantam: Jun Nagasoe Def. Yoshiyuki Takano by Katagatame Round 1 3:31
2. Middle: Kenta Takagi Def. Yoshinori Takahashi by TKO Round 1 1:56

Non-Tournnament:
1. Welter: Daisuke Hoshino Def. Yuhei Ota by Decision 3-0

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6/6 Shooting Disco 9 -SUPERMAN- Fight Order

GutsMan promotion always put on great Shooting Disco cards, and the 9th card looks like it will be no different. The secret of the success are great matchups and talent.

The main event on this card will see Shintaro Ishiwatari take on Taiki Tsuchiya. Ishiwatari is coming of his 2nd career loss in the Sengoku featherweight GP, he lost to Korean Chan Sung Jung. Tsuchiya is also coming off his 2nd career loss, he traveled to Guam to take on Justing Cruz in PXC 17. Both fighters will look to get back to winning and it should be a very good fight between 2 talented fighters.

The co-main event will be the flyweight battle between 2 of shootos best flyweights. Noburo Tahara will take on Shinya Murofushi. Tahara's last win was an awesome fight with Atsushi Takeuchi (look for it), but then he lost to Rambaa Somdet and is ranked #2 after the Thai fighter. Murofushi is one of my favorite fighters, he got his 1st loss in his last fight against "Heat" Takeshi and will be looking to come back with a win here. This will be a very tactical fight.

Also on the card is Guy Delameau, Delameau had a very good winning streak broken by Ikuo Usuda in the last Shooting Disco event. Usuda is now scheduled to participate in the Sengoku Gold Rush project. Delameau will be taking on Yukinari "Hibiki" Tamura, a very talented fighter from Paraestra Osaka, who lost to Usuda in last year's rookie tournament final.

Main-Event:
10. Light: Shintaro Ishiwatari 6-2-3 vs. 3-2-0 Taiki Tsuchiya

9. Fly: Noburo "Shinpei" Tahara 5-3-1 vs. 4-1-1 Shinya Murofushi
8. Welter: Guy Delameau 9-5-0 vs. 8-3-4 Yukinari "Hibiki" Tamura
7. Middle: Akihiro Murayama 9-3-5 vs. 3-1-1 Yoichiro Sato
6. Light: Yuji Inoue 4-4-1 vs. 5-2-0 Naohiro Mizuno
5. Light: Hidenori Nishino 2-3-1 vs. Kosuke Kindaichi
4. Bantam: Joji Shimada 2-4-0 vs. 1-2-1 Tatsuya Nakashima

Rookie Tournament 2nd Round:
3. Bantam: Jun Nagasoe 1-3-0 vs. 1-0-0 Yoshiyuki Takano
2. Middle: Yoshinori Takahashi 0-5-0 vs. 2-1-0 Kenta Takagi

Non-Tournnament:
1. Welter: Yuhei Ota 0-1-0 vs. 4-1-0 Daisuke Hoshino

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4/10 Shooto - Shooting Disco 8 "We are Tarzan!"

It is time for me to catch up on some cards...

GutsMan is putting on another event in their popular Shooting Disco
series. The main event could very well deceide the next challenger to BJ's title. Shooto ranked #2 Ryuichi Miki is taking on the #4 ranked veteran Junji Ikoma. I think it is safe to say that the winner will be ranked #1 next month, since #1 ranked Yuki Shoujou lost his fight against "BJ" on Mach 20.

Other than that, it is a normal Shooting Disco card, LOTS of talented fighters. There should be some very good fights here, these events have had a habit of putting on some of the best fights over the last couple of years.

Main-Event:
Bantam: Ryuichi Miki 8-2-3 vs. 12-9-4 Junji Ikoma

Bantam: Ayumu "Gozo" Shioda 5-6-0 vs. 4-6-1 Shinichi Hanawa
Welter: Komei Okada 5-8-2 vs. 5-3-1 Hisaki "Kotobukimaru" Hiraishi
Welter: Guy Delameau 9-4-0 vs. 3-0-0 Ikuo Usuda
Light: Yuji Inoue 4-4-1 vs. 5-2-0 Naohiro Mizuno
Bantam: Hiroaki Ijima 2-1-0 vs. 0-2-1 Tatsuya Nakashima
Light: Hidenori Nishino 1-3-1 vs. 0-2-0 Toshiaki Hayasaka

Rookie Tournament Fights:
Middle: Yoichiro Sato 2-1-1 vs. 1-2-0 Naoki Hirayama
Light: Kenichiro Marui 1-2-0 vs. Yusuke Yachi
Light-Heavy: Tomohito Tanizaki vs. Takahiro Suzuki

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6/21 Shooto - Shooting Disc 5 - RESULTS

The main event for yesterday's Shooto even was the re-match between the 2 veterans Jin Akimoto and Junji Ikoma. They fought in January in what was an exciting draw. Yesterday they fought again, the result being much the same...

All the results:
Jin Akimoto vs. Junji Ikoma DRAW
So Tazawa Def. Junya Kudo “KODO” by decision 3-0
Noboru "Shinpei" Tahara Def. Atsushi Takeuchi by arm-bar Round 2 3:25
Yoshitaro Niimi Def. Taisuke Okuno by decision 2-1
Eiji Murayma Def. Yuji Inoue by triangle choke Round 1 4:40
Seiji Otsuka Def. Ayumu “GOZO” Shioda by KO Round 2 0:59
Daisuke “Hunt” Okumiya vs. Shin Kochiwa DRAW
Hidenori Nishino Def. Kenichiro Marui by TKO Round 1 0:52

Rookie Tournament Bantamweight:
Hiroaki Ijima Def. Nari Fujita by decision 2-1

Nozomu Otsuka Def. Yosuke Saruta “Flying Monkey☆No.2” by TKO Round 2 3:25

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6/21 Shooto - Shooting Disc 5

Shooting Disc 5 will be held in Shinjuku Face and this are the card for the event on June 21. I think this looks like an interesting card. Akimoto and Ikoma is haveing a re-match of their fight just 5 months ago, but it will be a good fight again.

Jin Akimoto 10-11-3 vs. 10-9-2 Junji Ikoma
So Tazawa 7-3-2 vs. 6-0-2 Junya Kudo “KODO”
Atsushi Takeuchi 4-3-2 vs. 4-2-0 Noboru "Shinpei" Tahara
Taisuke Okuno 4-1-1 vs. 4-2-2 Yoshitaro Niimi
Yuji Inoue 4-3-1 vs. 3-4-2 Eiji Murayma
Seiji Otsuka 7-8-4 vs. 3-5-0 Ayumu “GOZO” Shioda
Daisuke “Hunt” Okumiya 1-2-0 vs. 0-1-0 Shin Kochiwa
Hidenori Nishino 0-2-0 vs. 0-1-0 Kenichiro Marui

Rookie Tournament Bantamweight:
Hiroaki Ijima vs. Nari Fujita

Yosuke Saruta “Flying Monkey☆No.2” 0-1-0 vs. Nozomu Otsuka

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