7/7 K-1 World Max Final 8

K-1 is holding the quarterfinals for this year's World Max tournament tomorrow. The finals for this event will be held October 1.

The card is packed and there are some interesting fights even outside the tournament. Andre Dida is fighting a K-1 rules fight against Remigijus Morkevicius in a fight I cant wait to see. Also the tournament reserve between Albert Krause and Mike Zambidis looks very interesting.

This is the fight order for tomorrow:

Main event:
10- Final 8 Block A: Masato vs. Drago
9- Final 8 Block A: Yoshihiro Sato vs. Buakaw Por. Pramuk
8- Superfight: Andre Dida vs. Remigijus Morkevicius
Intermission
7- Superfight: Haruaki Otsuki vs. David Douge
6- Superfight: Susumu Daiguji vs. Konstantin Trishin
5- Superfight: Daisuke Uematsu vs. Eddy Juozapavicius
4- Final 8 Block B: Andy Souwer vs. Warren Stevelmans
3- Final 8 Block B: Yasuhiro Kido vs. Artur Kyshenko
2- Final 8 Reserve fight (not 100% sure): Albert Krause vs. Mike Zambidis
1- Superfight: Hiroyuki Owatari vs. MASAKI

Opening Fights:
K-1 Rule: Alviar Lima vs. Mark Vogel
K-1 Youth Fight: Kizaemon Saiga vs. Tyron Van Wyk
K-1 Youth Fight: Hirotaka Urabe vs. Denis Telitsa

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8/27 Pancrase Shining Tour - Yuki Kondo Added

Pancrase has added a fight to this card. Yuki Kondo is fighting! Also confirmed as a participant is the very talented Seiya Kawahara, I cant wait to see who they will match him with.

This is the card so far:
MW: Yuki Kondo 48-22-6 vs. 3-2-0 Ryuji Ohori
LW: Yuichi Ikari 9-4-3 vs. 6-4-0 Eriya Matsuda
WW: Masahiro Toryu 5-3-3 vs. 4-6-0 Tomoyoshi Iwamiya

Neo-Blood Finals:
Bantamweight: Takuya Eizumi 1-0-0 vs. 2-0-0 Isao Hirose
Featherweight: Yasutomo Tanaka 5-1-3 vs. 1-0-0 Hirotoshi Saito
Lightweight: Steve Magdaleno 4-0-1 vs. Hiroki Aoki

Participating:
Koji Oishi 16-7-5
Kenji Arai 12-12-2
Seiya Kawahara 5-0-0

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7/5 DEEP X03 - Shinjuku Face - RESULTS

DEEP X03 is happening right now in Shinjuku Face Arena, this is a grappling event headlined by K-Taro.

I will update the results as they become available. They are in Japanese here .

Keita Nakamura “K-Taro” Def. Cicero Costa by Rear-Naked Choke Round 2 3:11
Raphael Mendez (?) Def. Kohei Yasumi by points 14-1
ＭＩＫＵ Def. Ｖ一 by points 10-4
Shigenori Yamashita Def. Togyu (fighting Bull) Sora by points 11-5
Masanori Kanehara Def. Takayuki Hirose by points 7-5
Mika Nagano Def. SACHI by points 14-0
Gilermi Mendes (?) Def. Yusuke Honma by points 18-0
Roberto Souza Def. Ryotaro Endo by Rear-Naked Choke Round 2 3:22
Marcinus Souza (?) Def. Yuji Sakuragi by Rear-Naked Choke Round 1 3:52

Opening Fights:
5- 80kg: Sotaro Yamada vs. Ryohei Arai
4- 75kg: 半谷泰佑 (?) vs. Yohei Ota
3- 70kg: Noritsugo Shimazaki (?) vs. 井上誠午（和術慧舟會ＧＯＤＳ）
2- 62kg: Makoto Sawada vs. Kiyoshi Kitamura
1- 75kg: Kendo Kokubuda (?) vs. Takaya Asano

Future Fights:
4- 80kg: Yusuke Shinmei vs. Huan Kaio (?)フアン・カイオ
3- 62kg: Satoru Ida vs. Hitoshi Makino
2- 50kg: Asami Kodera vs. Mika Hamasaki
1- 65kg: Atsushi Sakuma vs. Yuto Hirao

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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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Hong Man Choi will be back!

Hong Man Choi had an operation earlier this year for a brain tumor. The operation was successful and he has been back in training for 1 week now. He is hoping to make a return to the K-1 ring in the K-1 World GP event in Seoul September 27.

http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/fight/k1/headlines/20080703-00000036-spnavi-fight.html

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No updates today

Just in case you were wondering, there were no updates yesterday, and wont be today either. I am not feeling well, hope to be back some time this weekend. :)

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7/21 DREAM 5 - Another Participant Announced

SportsNavi has in an article added Japanese Pro-Wrestler Katsuyori Shibata. He is a guy that really needs a win, will be interesting to see who they pair him up with.

I expect there will be further announcements around this card in the coming days as the Fight Fesitval draws to a close

Participant added:
Katsuyori Shibata 2-4-0

Already confirmed:
Lightweight Final: Winners of Semi-Finals

Lightweight semi-finals:
Eddie Alvarez 14-1-0 vs. 22-4-2 Tatsuya Kawajiri
Shinya Aoki 16-2-0 vs. 25-10-4 Caol Uno

Non-tournament:
Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto 17-1-0 vs. 7-0-0 Joseph Benavidez

Other participants (previously announced):
-Mark Hunt 5-3-0
-Joachim Hansen 17-7-1
-Mirko CroCop 23-6-2
-Minowaman 39-28-8
-Yoshihiro Akiyama 10-1-0 (1NC)
-Denis Kang 29-10-1 (rumored)

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8/27 Pancrase Shining Tour - Neo-Blood Finals

Pancrase have anounced a few more fights for their Neo-Blood finals event. As I said, last year this was a very good event and I will be there this time too. Steve Magdaleno now has an opponent, I hope his knee is ok from his previous fight. Also added is the lightweight fight between Ikari and Matsuda.

LW: Yuichi Ikari 9-4-3 vs. 6-4-0 Eriya Matsuda

Neo-Blood Finals:
Bantamweight: Takuya Eizumi 1-0-0 vs. 2-0-0 Isao Hirose
Featherweight: Yasutomo Tanaka 5-1-3 vs. 1-0-0 Hirotoshi Saito
Lightweight: Steve Magdaleno 4-0-1 vs. Hiroki Aoki
Welterweight: Masahiro Toryu 5-3-3 vs. 4-6-0 Tomoyoshi Iwamiya

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Akasaka Fight Festival - Day 1

I finished work early easterday (about 7) so I deceided to make my way down to the TBS building in Akasaka. A good thing too, FEG/TBS seems serious about this festival and "Kid" Yamamoto had brought his whole Krazy Bee gang. It was a fun event, with interview, sparing sessions and some fun. This is something you should visit if you are in Tokyo this week!

Make sure you check out Sherdog's stuff from the event too:
http://www.sherdog.com/videos/videos.asp?v_id=1667 (Video)
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=13493 (Article)
http://www.sherdog.com/news/pictures.asp?n_id=13487 (Pictures)

My pictures from the event:

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Lots of people have turned up for the first day of this festival. You could buy drinks and K-1/DREAM goods.

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"Kid"'s BJJ coaches showed of their grappling skills.

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Atsushi Yamamoto had a session on the pads.

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And of course, "Kid" and Boku had a sparring session.

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6/29 ClubDEEP Nagoya - RESULTS

DEEP had their ClubDEEP on Sunday. There are not a lot of MMA events, that I am aware of, in Nagoya. But over 2 weeks now there are 2. In this event DEEP put on a decent DEEP card and HEAT 7. Should also be a very interesting event. I will update the card on that one too.

Now for the results from this weekend's event:

MMA:
Ryan Bow Def. Naoki Matsushita by decision 3-0
Hiroshi Umemura Def. Kunihiro Watanabe by rear-naked choke Round 1 1:19
Henrik "Wolverine" Kakiuchi Def. Atsuhiro Tsuboi by decision 3-0
Tadao Kimura vs. Yoshiyume Chodo DRAW
Takashi Matsushita vs. Hideo Matsui DRAW
Grappling Tag-team: Hidehiko Hasegawa/Taishi Def. Christian/Koda
Seiji Akao Def. Tatsumitsu Wada by decision 2-0

Kick-rule:
和勲 Oshima Def. Furusawa by decision 2-1
Takao Futatsugi Def. Kazuki Tamagawa by decision 3-0
Fumihiro Hara vs. Akihiro Nakamura DRAW

Future Fight:
Hiroyuki Tsuzuki Def. Ryota Matsui by TKO Round 2 2:24
Noriyuki Takeuchi vs. Ryusaku Mishina DRAW

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