9/23 DREAM 6 - Middleweight Tournament Finals

DREAM have announced the semi-finals for their Middleweight tournament. In addition to that, Hideo Tokoro will get another fight, his 3rd in DREAM. This is undoubtebly because of the popularity he has been gaining, his DREAM fights have been awesome and I am sure they are looking for him to deliver again. Tokoro is undefeated in DREAM so far.

DREAM Middleweight Semi-Finals:
Melvin Manhoef 22-4-1 vs. 22-2-1 Gegard Mousasi
Zelg Galesic 9-3-0 vs. 9-1-0 Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza

Featherweight:
Hideo Tokoro 21-13-1 vs. 11-5-1 Atsushi Yamamoto

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8/17 DEEP 37 - Card complete ?

DEEP have announced some additional fights to their DEEP 37 card. The card looks final now and it looks very good. I have no idea who the Russian fighter Hama is, so fill me in if you know anything.

Due to injury, there has been a change to Ryuta Sakurai's opponent, he is no longer fighting Sojiro Orui but Kozo Urita instead.

Announced:
Yasuhito Namekawa 23-16-3 vs. 4-2-0 Claudio Silva
Hama (?) vs. 0-3-0 (1NC) Jun Soo Lim
Koichiro Matsumoto 4-1-0 vs. 4-3-1 Seigo Inoue

Future Fights:
Tomohiro Ishii vs. 1-0-0 Teppei Hori
Muneyuki Sato 1-2-0 vs. 4-2-1 Yuya "Jacare" Osugi
Makoto "Mako Dragon" Kawawa 1-2-0 vs. Kenta Takagi

Previously Announced:
DEEP Bantamweight Title-Fight:
Masakazu Imanari 14-6-1 vs. 11-7-3 Hiroshi Umemura

DEEP Female Lightweight Title Fight:
Miku Matsumoto (Title-holder) 17-4-0 vs. 8-8-4 Misaki Takimoto

Riki Fukuda 10-4-0 vs. 3-1-0 Hiroki Ozaki
Yasushi Kitazaki 8-4-1 vs. Yusaki Tsukumo
LUIZ 7-6-2 vs. 1-3-2 Shinobu Miura
Daiki Hata (D.J. Taiki) 8-5-2 vs. 3-5-2 Kim Jong Man
Ryuta Sakurai 16-14-4 vs. 5-2-4 Sojiro Orui
Eiji Ishikawa 15-15-2 vs. 24-27-10 Kousei Kobuta
Yoshihiro Tomioka "Barbaro44" 12-5-4 vs. 7-1-1 Katsunori Kikuno

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Satoru Kitaoka - Videos

One of the fighters in the Sengoku Lightweight GP is Satoru Kitaoka. He might be a bit of an unknown fighter for those unfamiliar with Japanese MMA, but those who are know he is a very strong grappler. He is also an awesome corner-man, I have seen him make the difference there as well. He was cornering Shinya Aoki in the DREAM GP.

Satoru Kitaoka is one of my favorite Japanese fighters, and I was looking forward to seeing him in the Pride Lightweight GP. Unfortuanately that never happened, but Kitaoka was the only fighter that was already officially announced for that GP (that I know of).

This video is from the Pride GP qualifying fight against Fabricio "Pitbull" Monteiro.



His Sengoku Debut against Ian Schaffa:

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8/24 Sengoku - Pawel Natsula's Opponent announced

Sengoku have announced the opponent for Pawel Nastula's fight on August 24. The opponent is Korean Yang Dong Yi. Accourding to N.O.B he is a wrestler, his current MMA record is 2-0-0. Both his previous fights were in DEEP and this is a big step up in opponent. Nastula has not fought for nearly 2 years, Yang Dong Yi is coming off a 1 year break.

Announced:
Pavel Natula 1-3-0 vs. 2-0-0 Yang Dong Yi

Previously announced:
Main-event:
Takanori Gomi 28-3-0 vs. 5-1-0 Hwang Sung Pang

Lightweight GP:
Satoru Kitaoka 20-8-9 vs. 16-2-0 Clay French
Eiji Mitsuoka 13-5-2 vs. 8-1-0 Rodrigo Damm
Kazunori Yokota 6-1-3 vs. 6-1-0 Bojan Kosednar
Mizuto Hirota 9-2-0 vs. 20-9-1 Ryan Schultz

Non-GP Fights:
Peter Graham 0-1-0 vs. 12-7-3 Moise Rimbon
Makoto Takimoto 4-4-0 vs. 16-6-0 Frank Trigg

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Some Videos - Rambaa Somdet

There is not really a lot going on lately... Deceided to pass the time by looking at some videos.

Even though there is not much happening now, there are lots of things to look forward to. One of the fighters I cant wait to see is Rambaa "M16" Somdet. If you havent heard of him, you should check out these videos:

Being a Thai Boxer, you would expect strong kicks.



His last fight was in Shooto "Back to our roots 6", it was an awesome fight and I was really impressed by how good his guard was against Masaaki Sugawara.



Another fun highlight video I have posted before. This guy is entertaining and fun to watch. I have posted this before, but in case you missed it.

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8/3 Shooto - Gig Central Vol. 15 - RESULTS

The results from tonights Shooto event in Nagoya. The main event had home-town favorite Hatsu Hioki against Hiroshi Nakamura. Hioki is not going to be happy with this result, and it wont do him any favors in the rankings either...

Also worth a mention, Teppei “Bull” Masuda got his first win in the only fight of the night that didnt go the distance.

Hatsu Hioki vs. Hiroshi “Iron” Nakamura Draw 0-1
(Grappling) Daisuke “Amazon” Sugie vs. Max Fernandez No result available yet
Takahiro Kajita Def. Komei Okada by decision 3-0
Akira Kibe Def. Takeshi Okada by decision 3-0
Kenichi Hattori Def. Hisaki Hiraishi “Kotobukimaru” by decision 3-0
Hiroshi Sakamoto Def. Keisuke Kurata by decision 3-0
Teppei “Bull” Masuda Def. Kenya Kato by TKO Round 1 0:25

Rookie Tournament:
MW: Takesuke Kume vs. Yoichiro Sato Draw
WW: Yukinari “Hibiki” Tamura Def. Kunio Nakajima by decision 3-0
FeatherW: Keita Yoshida Def. Yasuaki Nagamoto “Aki” by decision 3-0
FlyW: Mikiyomi Yamagami Def. Run by decision 2-0

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8/2 DEEP - MegaTon GP Finals - RESULTS

DEEP held their MegaTon finals yesterday, not unexectedly Kawaguchi took home the championship belt. Sherdog has more on the night here.

8. MegaTon Final: Yusuke Kawaguchi Def. Shunsuke Inoue by Decision 2-1
7. Mika Hayashi vs. Yoko Takahashi Draw
6. Sotaro Yamada vs. Ryoji Suzuki Draw
5. Grappling-Rule: Samio Kimura Def. Shinichiro Eguchi by armbar Round 2 4:44
4. MegaTon Reserve: Wakaarashi Def. Mamoru Nakamura by TKO Round 1 5:00
3. Semi-Final 2: Yusuke Kawaguchi Def. Shunji Kosaka by TKO Round 1 0:45
2. Semi-Final 1: Shunsuke Inoue Def. Ken Orihashi by armbar Round 1 4:44
1. Kohei Yasumi/Naoya Uematsu Def. Daichi Fujiwara/Takushi Hasegawa by Decision 2-0

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Shooto August Rankings

Bantamweight:
Champ: → Shinichi “BJ” Kojima (From October 14 2006, Defended 2 times)
1. ↑ Yasuhiro Urushitani
2. ↑ Yuki Shoujou
3. ↓ Mamoru Yamaguchi
4. → Masatoshi Abe
5. → Ryuichi Miki
6. → Junji Ikoma
7. → Shimokawa Yusei
8. → Yasuhiro Akagi
9. → Homare Kuboyama
10. → Jin Akimoto

BJ retains his title after submitting Mamoru Yamaguchi on July 18. Mamoru moves down to #3.

Featherweight:
Champ: → Masakatsu Ueda (From March 28 2008, Defended 0 Times)
1. → Marcos “Louro” Galvao
2. → Eduardo Dantas
3. → Daniel Lima
4. → Koetsu Okazaki
5. → So Tazawa
6. → Atsushi Yamamoto
7. → Kenji Osawa
8. ↑ Hiromasa Ogikubo
9. ↓ Tetsu Suzuki
10. ↓ Takeya Mizugaki

In to the ranking after this win at Shooto Tradition 2, at #8: Hiromasa Ogikubo
Out of the ranking: Ryota Matsune

Lightweight:
Champ: → Hideki Kadowaki (From March 28 2008, Defended 0 times)
1. → Akitoshi Tamura
2. → Antonio Carvalho
3. → Savant Young
4. →“Lion” Takeshi Inoue
5. → Hatsu Hioki
6. → Rumina Sato
7. → Bao Quach
8. → Katsuya Toida
9. → David Lejenas
10. ↑ “Wicky” Akiyo Nishiura

After beating Matteus Lahdesmaki at Shooto Tradition 2, “Wicky” Akiyo comes in to the ranking at #10 at the expense of Hiroyuki Takaya.

Welterweight:
Champ: → Takashi Nakakura (from May 3 2008 Defended 0 times)
1. → Yusuke Endo
2. → Ganjo Tensuku
3. → Bendy Casimir
4. ↑ Grzegorz Trendowski
5. ↓ Jani Lax
6. ↓ Brian Cobb
7. ↓ Mizuto Hirota
8. ↓ Willian Chiqueirinho
9. ↓ Eiji Mitsuoka
10. ↓ Giovani Diniz

Grzegorz Trendowski (I am not 100% sure on the spelling) has moved from Middleweight to Welterweight and comes in at #4, out of the ranking goes Tatsuya Kawajiri.

Middleweight:
Champ: → Shinya Aoki (From February 17 2006, defended 1 times)
1. → David Baron
2. → Scott Henze
3. → Wim Deputter
4. ↑ Niek Tromp
5. ↑ Zelim Felican
6. ↑ Roemer Trumpert
7. ↑ Hernani Perpetuo
8. ↑ Tommy Depret
9. ↓ Ronald Jhun
10. ↓ Brent Weedman

Trendowski moves to welterweight, Niek Tromp moves up to #4. In to the ranking comes Hernani Perpetuo with a 5-0 record and Tommy Depret with a 3-0 record. Out of the ranking goes “K-Taro”.

Light-Heavyweight:
Champ: → Siyar Bahadourzada (From July 15 2007, defended 0 times)
1. → Leandro Silva
2. → Akihiro Murayama
3. → Shiko Yamashita
4. → Grazhuydas Smailis
5. → Masashi Yozen
6. → Nathan Schouteren
7. → Petras Morkevicius
8. → Rolandas Agrba
9. → Edward O’Daniel
10. → Dustin Denes

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8/24 Sengoku - Pawel Natsula is Back!

Pawel Natsula has been gone from the MMA Scene since Pride went away, now he has resurfaced in Japan and will fight in Sengoku on August 24! His opponent is yet to be determined.

The main-event is also announced, no surprise there, Gomi will fight in that.

Participating:
Pavel Natula 1-3-0

Main-event:
Takanori Gomi 28-3-0 vs. 5-1-0 Hwang Sung Pang

Lightweight GP:
Satoru Kitaoka 20-8-9 vs. 16-2-0 Clay French
Eiji Mitsuoka 13-5-2 vs. 8-1-0 Rodrigo Damm
Kazunori Yokota 6-1-3 vs. 6-1-0 Bojan Kosednar
Mizuto Hirota 9-2-0 vs. 20-9-1 Ryan Schultz

Non-GP Fights:
Peter Graham 0-1-0 vs. 12-7-3 Moise Rimbon
Makoto Takimoto 4-4-0 vs. 16-6-0 Frank Trigg

http://gbring.com/sokuho/news/2008_08/0801_sengoku.htm

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9/27 Cage Force 8 - Semi-Finals Announced!

Cage Force have announced the semi-finals for their tournaments. There has already been a few surprises, not to mention changes due to the fianancial problems they are having. But the semi-finals are looking awesome!!! I was a bit dissapointed last time, but otherwise the Cage Force events have been very good. As this is on a Saturday, I think there is a good chance I will make my way to Differ Ariake again this time.

For those who didnt know Yamazaki before his DREAM fight with Hideo Tokoro, he is in this semi-final (he also fought in DREAM 3 btw). There are some really big Japanese names in these semi-finals!

Announced today, the tournament semi-finals:
Bantamweight Semi-Finals:
Takeya Mizugaki 9-2-2 vs. 10-6-0 Taiyo Nakahara
Masahiro Oishi 18-9-7 vs. 8-5-3 Tetsu Suzuki

Featherweight Semi-Finals:
Yuji Hoshino 14-7-7 vs. 14-8-2 Takeshi Yamazaki
”Wicky” Akiyo Nishiura 8-2-1 vs. 5-2-0 Fanjin Son

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