6/7 Pancrase Changing Tour - Weigh-In & Fight Order

It is a stacked card that Pancrase is putting on in Differ Ariake tomorrow (Sunday). The fact that Sengoku veteran Ryo Kawamura opens the main card should be an indication of how stacked this card is. The Pancrase Light-Heavyweight title holder is fighting in a non-title fight.

The main event will see Sengoku Lightweight title holder Satoru Kitaoka take on Pancrase and DREAM (Dynamite) veteran Yukio Sakagushi. This fight will probably last around 1 minute. Either a KO to Sakaguchi, or a more likely submission to Kitaoka.

The co-main event is the Flyweight King of Pancrase title fight between Mitsuhisa Sunabe and Yukio Sakaguchi. Also on the card is Isao Hirose, with a win here he should be next in line for a title shot.

Another Sengoku veteran fighting in this event is Korean standout Choi Mu Bae, who defeated Dave Hermann in the last Sengoku event. He is taking on Pride veteran Katsuhisa Fujii.

Differ Ariake should be packed for this event!

Weigh-in results after the fight order.

Fight Order:
19. Light: Satoru Kitaoka 24-8-9 vs. 3-4-0 Yukio Sakaguchi

Flyweight King of Pancrase:
18. Mitsuhisa Sunabe 8-5-3 vs. 5-1-0 Takuya Eizumi

17. Light: Koji Oishi 17-8-6 vs. 2-2-0 Kim Hyung Kwang
16. Middle: Takenori Sato 8-5-4 vs. Kim Hoon
15. Heavy: Choi Mu Bae 8-3-0 vs. 9-16-1 Katsuhisa Fujii
14. Bantam: Seiya Kawahara 6-2-0 vs. 3-2-1 Tatsuya So
13. Middle: Keiichiro Yamamiya 34-24-9 vs. 3-4-0 Ryuji Ohori
12. Fly: Isao Hirose 5-0-0 vs. 0-1-0 Takashi Nakamura
11. Feather: Tashiro "Akai" Nishiuchi 10-5-9 vs. 4-8-6 Takumi Murata
10. Welter: Kosei Kubota 24-30-10 vs. 1-1-0 Shingo Suzuki
9. Light-Heavy: Ryo Kawamura 9-4-2 vs. 15-5-2 Yukiya Naito

Neo-Blood Semi-Finals:
8. Fly: Daisuke Tsujita 3-0-0 vs. 3-4-1 Yuki Yashima
7. Fly: Takuma Ishii 2-3-1 vs. 1-1-1 Kiyotaka Shimizu
6. Bantam: Taro Shimazaki 5-1-1 vs. 2-2-1 Ryota Sasaki
5. Bantam: Nobuhiro Yoshitake 1-4-1 vs. 10-1-6 Ranki Kawana
4. Feather: Shigeyuki Uchiyama 5-0-0 vs. 1-0-1 Hiroshi Tomita
3. Feather: Yasutomo Tanaka 5-2-4 vs. 0-1-0 Akira Saito
2. Light: Keigo Hirayama 7-4-3 vs. Hiro Tomiyama
1. Light: Koji Nakamura vs. 2-0-0 Isao Kobayashi

Weigh-in:
Satoru Kitaoka 70.2 kg
Yukio Sakaguchi 69.0 kg

Mitsuhisa Sunabe 56.9 kg
Takuya Eizumi 56.7 kg

Koji Oishi 70.1 kg
Kim Hyoung Kwang 70.1 kg

Takenori Sato 83.8 kg
Kim Hoon 83.8 kg

Choi Mu Bae 112.6 kg
Katsuhisa Fujii 105.1 kg

Seiya Kawahara 61.2kg → 61.1kg
Tatsuya So

13. Middle: Kei Yamamiya 83.4 kg
Ryuji Ohori 83.5 kg

12. Fly: Isao Hirose 57.8 kg
Takashi Nakamura 57.7 kg

Tashiro Akai 65.3 kg
Takumi Murata 64.9 kg

Kosei Kubota　76.9 kg
Shingo Suzuki 76.6 kg

Ryo Kawamura 92.9 kg
Yukiya Naito 91.5 kg

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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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8/1 Affliction M-1 Global "Trilogy" Press Conference Pictures

From my friends over at M-1/Afflicition, here are some pictures of the Affliction 3 press conference earlier this week.

Affliction has put on 2 of the better cards over the last couple of years in my opinion, and the 3rd is looking awesome again. The star of the show is, as usual, Fedor. But Affliction has always put other stars and talented fighters in there. This time Fedor will defend his title against Josh Barnett, and I cant think of a fight I would rather see at this point.

PPV Main Card:
Fedor Emelianenko 30-1-0 vs. 24-5-0 Josh Barnett
Renato “Babalu” Sobral 32-8-0 vs. 25-2-1 Gegard Mousasi
Victor “The Phenom” Belfort 18-8-0 vs. TBA
Tim Sylvia 24-5-0 vs. 27-10-0 Paul “The Headhunter” Buentello
Big” Ben Rothwell 30-6-0 vs. 6-0-0 Chase Gormley

The undercard will be shown on HDNet will feature these fighters:
Chris “The Polish Hammer” Horodecki vs. Dan “The Upgrade” Lauzon
Jay “The Thoroughbred” Hieron (17-4-0), Paul “Semtex” Daley (21-8-2), Deividas Taurosevicius (10-3-0) and Brett Cooper (9-4-0)

Tickets for Affliction M-1 “Trilogy,” will be between $50.00 and $600.00, and will go on sale June 8 at Honda Center Box Office (1.714.704.2500) and Ticketmaster.com and Ticket Master outlets (1.714.740.2000).

Some more pictures from the press conference:

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6/27 Cage Force - Fight Added

GCM have announced 3 more fights for their card in Differ Ariake on June 27. "K-Taro" will probably fight in the main event again, and there are some talented fighters on this card. Look out of Yuta Nezu, and Randleman Ichikawa who is always entertaining.

Announced:
Welter: Teruhiko Kobu 6-9-1 vs. 3-4-1 Keitaro Maeda
Light-Heavy: Yusuke Sakashita 5-1-0 vs. 4-5-1 Yuta Nakamura
Feather: Tomoki Miyaji 4-2-0 vs. Masayoshi "Randleman" Ichikawa

Previously Announced:
Welter: Keita Nakamura "K-Taro" 15-4-2 vs. 6-8-0 Tomoyoshi Iwamiya
Middle: Daiju Takase 7-13-1 vs. 2-2-1 Shuji Morikawa
Bantam: Isao Terada 5-7-4 vs. 7-2-1 Yuta Nezu

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6/30 DEEP Impact 42 - Miyata vs. Yamasaki Announced

Saeki and DEEP have announced an awesome match-up for their next DEEP impact event. 2 DREAM veterans will face eachother, this time Miyata will go down to featherweight though. Miyata's opponent is Shooto, DEEP and DREAM veteran Takeshi Yamazaki. Yamazaki is coming off 2 losses, both fighters needs this win to get back onto the main stage of DREAM. Maybe there will be a DEEP title fight for the winner of this one too.

The card is looking very good, and the addition of Miyata vs. Yamazaki will make this a very good event! A total of 14 fights are announced and I think this card should be just about complete now.

In the future fights, Outsider standout Tomoya Kato will make his DEEP debut.

Announced:
Kazuyuki Miyata 6-7-0 vs. 14-9-2 Takeshi Yamazaki
Toshikazu Iseno 6-5-2 vs. 1-0-0 Kleber Koike
Yusaku Tsukumo 6-3-0 vs. ぺ・ミョンホ (?)
Shigetoshi Iwase 7-11-3 vs. 泰舗 "Goten" Okuno

Future Fights:
Motoki Awaji 0-2-0 vs. 3-0-0 Tomoya Kato
Yasuhiro Yamazaki vs. Yusuke Kadoyama
Tatsumitsu Wada 0-5-0 vs. 3-2-0 Tatsuya Tsuchida

Previously Announced:
DEEP Middleweight Title Fight:
Yuichi Nakanishi 9-8-3 vs. 14-4-0 Riki Fukuda

Ryuta Sakurai 18-15-4 vs. 17-22-1 Hiromitsu Kanehara
Bernard Ackah 2-2-0 vs. 10-5-1 Young Choi
Kazuhisa Tazawa 4-0-1 vs. Jae Young Kim (?)
Hiroko 2-0-1 vs. 5-8-2 Kenji Nagai
Tomoya Miyashita 10-5-5 vs. 3-1-1 Hiryu Okamoto
Ryota Uozomi 3-1-0 vs. Pat Uncangco

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Satoshi Ishii/Sengoku Public Signing

Thursday June 4th Sengoku will formally announce Judo Olympic gold medalist Satoshi Ishii as a fighter for the organization. A lot of people have been saying that they would like to see a top martial artist in his prime try his hands at MMA, and Ishii could be considered just that.

At the signing event will be a lot of Sengoku stars: Satoshi Ishii, Hidehiko Yoshida, Makoto Takimoto, Sanae Kikuta, Kazuo Misaki, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Yuki Kondo, Yoshihiro Nakao, Satoru Kitaoka, Mizuto Hirota, Michihiro Omigawa, Masanori Kanehara, Eiji Mitsuoka, Yuki Sasaki, Kazunori Yokota, Ryo Kawamura
Tetsuya Yamada, Shigeki Osawa, Maximo Blanco.

Nightmare of Battle is specualating at a fight announcement, in addition to that it will be interesting to see if there are any plans for Ishii to fight soon.

The event will take place at Shinjuku Station Square, which is across from the Studio Alta building and has NOTHING to do with Times Square (this might make no sense if you're not going there or have never been there).

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7/11 JEWELS 4th Ring - Megumi Fuji Fighting

The 4th Jewels event will take place Saturday July 11. This time it will not be in the usual Shinjuku Face, but in Shinkiba 1st Ring.

The first fight has been announced and it will feature the unbeaten star of female MMA, Megumi Fuji. She will take on Saori Ishioka, who has won her last 3 fights. Megumi Fuji will go in with a record of 17-0 and only 2 fights have gone the distance. I have a feeling this fight will end before the final bell as well.

This fight was set up in the last Jewels event, when Saori Ishioka challenged Megumi Fuji in the ring. Mega-Megu accepted and there will be a few first for Ishioka in this fight. First of all, ground and pound will be allowed and it will go for 3x5min.

Ishioka got her chance, now lets see how she does against Megumi Fuji.

Announced:
Megumi Fuji 17-0-0 vs. 7-3-0 Saori Ishioka

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5/30 War Gods 5 - Results

I reported earlier that Steve Magdaleno would make his return in this event, fighting Kit Cope. That was before all the controversy, and I can only say what I have heard, so it might not be 100% true. Before the weigh-in there was a rumor that the event was called off. Kit Cope and his team-mate, Lucas Gamaza, deceided to rehydrate and when the rumor turned out to be true they could not make weight and pulled out.

This left Steve and the organisers in a bad position, 1 day to go and no opponent. Luckily, Carlos Garces stepped up to face Steve Magdaleno on very short notice. Steve also came in on short notice here, in place of injured Andy Wang. He ended up taking his 6th straight win, and I hope it opens some more doors for him.

The rest of the results:

Main-Event: Lew Polley Def. Vernon "Tiger" White by Decision 3-0

Lightweight Showdown Round 1:
Joe Duarte Def. David Gardner by TKO Round 1 2:41
Steve Magdaleno Def. Carlos Garces by arm-bar Round 1 3:30

Lightweight Alternate Bracket:
Bryan Travers Def. Tom Belt by Decision 3-0

Other Fights:
Rick Slaton Def. Salah Zabian by TKO Round 1 0:56
Gareth Joseph Def. Jose Diaz by TKO Round 1 1:26
Leland Gridley Def. George Sanchez by arm-bar Round 2 2:28
Tarec Saffiedine Def. Mike Arellano by keylock Round 1 2:44
Bailey Byrne Def. Mentoa McKenzie by triangle Round 1 0:57

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6/1 ShootBoxing Champions Carnival - RESULTS *UPDATED*

ShootBoxing is having their Champions Carnival in Korakuen Hall now. It is a very interesting card, and lots of good fighters on it.

Mamoru has had his 3rd ShootBoxing fight, and the Shooto ledgend has now put himself in title contention by defeating the #1 ranked Nagurachun M16.

We also have new West Pacific Welterweight and Super-Welterweight champions!

*UPDATE*
The Super-Featherweight title fight was fought as a non-title fight due to the challenger Hiroaki Suzuki coming in over weight. Thanks to Pete for notifying me!

Ring of Fire champion, Tylor Toner pulls off the upset in his ShootBoxing debut!

Main-Event:
9. 71kg: Tyler Toner Def. Kenichi Ogata by KO Round 1 3:00

ShootBoxing Western Pacific Title Fight (67kg):
8. 67kg: Hiroki Shishido Def. Luke Meitland by standing Guillotine Choke Round 2 1:15

Japan Super Werlterweight Title Fight (70kg):
7. (Challenger) Takaaki Umeno Def. (Champion) Kenji Kanai by TKO Round 5 2:02

Japan Super Featherweight (60kg):
6. (Challenger) Hiroaki Suzuki Def. (Champion)Tomohiro Oikawa by KO Round 3 3:00

5. 56kg: Mamoru Yamaguchi Def. Nagurachun Martha M16 by Decision (after ext.) 3-0
4. 60kg: Takeshi Ishikawa Def. Koya Shimada by TKO Round 1 1:26
3. 87kg: Kengo Shimizu Def. Koji Iga by KO Round 1 2:41
2. 55kg: Kazuyuki Fushimi Def. Hiroaki Okuwa by Decision 3-0
1. 55kg: Tatsuhiro Takashima Def. Tomonori Suzuki by standing Choke Round 3 1:40

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Satoshi Ishii signs for Sengoku!

Another huge signing for Sengoku, Bejing Olympic Judo gold medalist Satoshi Ishii has signed a 2 year multi fight contract. The contract also allows him to fight in organisations overseas.

This is a HUGE deal for Sengoku, and Ishii will be their biggest draw in Japan.

Ishii caused a lot of controversy when he right after winning the olympic gold said he would like to fight Fedor. Initially he was rumored to have been offered a $5,000,000 contract wth DREAM, then it looked like he was more likely to be heading to an American organization.

It should have been a sign when he entered the Sengoku ring on their new year's show, but even then he showed his intentions by wearing a UFC shirt.

It is good to see him fighting in Japan now, it will give MMA in Japan a much needed boost! No date has yet been set for his debut.

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