10/17 Pancrase Changing Tour - Fight Order

The #1 ranked welterweight, Tomoyoshi Iwamiya will take on the talented Shingo Suzuki. Suzuki's record might not look the best, but he has fought some very tough opponents. This is a great opportunity for him.

Also on the card is the very exciting Hirotoshi Saito, he had his Sengoku debut on the Sengoku 8 undercard (he won that fight) and he also won the Neo-Blood tournament (featherweight) in 2008. He is taking on Grabaka's undefeated Shigeyuki Uchiyama, who was the Neo-Blood tournament winner in 2009.

There are some very interesting talent on this card, I have already mentioned Saito and Uchiyama. But it will be interesting to see some of the other talent on this card as well.

Main-Event:
10. Welter: Tomoyoshi Iwamiya 6-9-0 vs. 2-1-1 Shingo Suzuki

9. Light: Eriya Matsuda 7-7-0 vs. 8-5-3 Keigo Hirayama
8. Feather: Hirotoshi Saito 3-1-1 vs. 7-0-0 Shigeyuki Uchiyama
7. Middle: Kenji Nagai 5-9-2 vs. Go
6. Fly: Yuichiro Yajima 7-7-1 vs. Katsuo
5. Bantam: Hayato Shimizu 4-3-2 vs. 1-4-0 Ryo Saito
4. Feather: Yusuke Kawanago 3-0-0 vs. 4-3-0 Tomoyuki Miyaji
3. Bantam: Shoko Sato 4-1-0 vs. 3-3-0 Daisuke Endo
2. Light: Junichi Ota 2-3-1 vs. Katsunori Takahashi
1. Fly: Takashi Nakamura vs. 3-2-0 Ryosuke Tanuma

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10/30 Shooto Vale Tudo Japan 09 - First fight announced

It was clear from the announcement of this event that it would be BIG, they have announced the first fight and a couple of participants now and there is no doubt that it will be a sold out JCB Hall for this.

Former Shooto champion, Alexandre Franca Nogueira will take on current Shooto champion, "Lion" Takeshi.

Also announced as participants are Takanori Gomi and Rumina Sato. Gomi has stated that he intends to fight overseas after this, and he would like to take on a foreign fighter.

There will be a few changes to the rules and other things here, for one, they will not use the normal "Shooto gloves". They will use a new type of ISC glove (open finger).

Soccer kicks will not be allowed, but knees on the ground and stomps are allowed.

Fights will be eighter 3 or 5 rounds, of 5 minutes.

Announced:
65kg: Alexandre Franca Nogueira 13-5-2 vs. 16-3-0 "Lion" Takeshi Inoue

Participants:
Takanori Gomi 30-5-0
Rumina Sato 24-14-2

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12/11 KSW Martial Arts Confrontation 12 - World Strongest Man Takes on MMA

Some news from Polish organization KSW again. They are putting on some of the best events in Europe, and as I am a fan of strong-man competitions, this is a huge fight for me.

As far as I know, this is Mariusz Pudzianowski's MMA debut, but he is not new to martial arts. He has done professional boxing, and it seems also some Kyokushin karate. But he made his name by winning the World Strongest Man competition 4 times! I am really looking forward to seeing what he can do in the MMA ring. His opponent is Polish boxing champion Marcin Najman.

This should be a fight for people who enjoy hard hitting heavyweights!

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Sengoku - Satoshi Ishii Debut Set!

WVR have today announced that Satoshi Ishii will take on another judo gold medalist in his MMA debut. Not unexpectedly, his first opponent will be Hidehiko Yoshida.

The fight will take place on their NYE card, the date is yet to be deceided, but it should be announced later this month.

This is a fight that will be a breakthrough of sorts for Sengoku, it will be a huge fight in Japan and I am sure it will get a lot of casual fans that have not watched MMA since the Pride days back to the arena.

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9/13 Jewels 5th Ring - RESULTS

Jewels held their 5th event earlier today, the main event saw Korean veteran Seo Hee Ham take on Misaki Takimoto. Seo Hee Ham had not fought since her loss to Megumi Fuji in SmackGirl over a year ago, and took a decision win improving her record to 5-3. Her only losses are to Megmi Fuji, Yuka Tsuji and Miku Matsumoto.

This event got a little more attention than normal when the popular Mika Nagano posed semi-nude (corrected, I read that and think topless... Have not see the picure yet) for DEEP boss Saeki. The picures went on print in "Friday" and should be in my mailbox soon. The attention did not seem to affect Nagano as she took an impressive first round win.

German Alexandra Sanchez put on a strong performance as the handed the popular Shizuka Sugiyama her first loss.

Main-Event: Seo Hee Ham Def. Misaki Takimoto by Decision 3-0
Open: Megumi Yabushita Def. Atsuko Emoto by arm-bar Round 1 2:43

ROUGH STONE GP 2009 - Round 1:
-60kg: Alexandra Sanchez Def. Shizuka Sugiyama by Decision 3-0
-60kg: Tomoko Morii Def. Chihiro Oikawa by arm-bar Round 1 4:13
-54kg: Mika Nagano Def. Rina Tomita by arm-bar Ring 1 2:25
-54kg: Yoko Kagoshima Def. Yuko Oya by Decision 3-0
-48kg: Asami Kodera Def. Shinsaki Ozawa by arm-triangle Round 2 1:56
-48kg: Kikuyo Ishikawa Def. Asako by rear-naked choke Round 1 1:18

Opening Fights:
Grappling: Ayuka Hamazaki def. Hikaru Shida by armlock Round 1 0:38
Masami Tsujiyama vs. Miki "Planet" DRAW

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9/12 Cage Force - RESULTS

An action packed event in Differ Arike today. The main event saw UFC veteran Kuniyoshi Hironaka took on Paraestra Matsudo's Yoshihiro Koyama. Hironaka landed a knockout punch at the end of round 1, he claims the title that Mizuto Hirota vacated earlier this week and is now the 3rd lightweight champion of Cage Force.

Main-Event - Lightweight Title Fight:
11. Light: Kuniyoshi Hironaka Def. Yoshihiro Koyama by KO Round 1 4:27

10. Feather: Wataru Miki Def. Tomonori Taniguchi by rear-naked choke Round 3 4:36
9. Light: Yasunori Kanehara Def. Hiroki "KG Shinto" Kuga by TKO Round 1 0:55
8. Feather: Wataru Takahashi Def. Masayoshi "Randleman" Ichikawa by arm-bar Round 1 3:43
7. Bantam: Yoshihiro Matsunaga Def. Hirokazu Nishimura by Decision 3-0
6. Bantam: Masato Kobayashi Def. Daisuke Sugishima by Decision 3-0
5. Valkyrie Feather: Kyoko Takabayashi Def. Akiko Naito by TKO Round 1 2:25

Preliminary Fights:
4. Feather: Toru Yoshikawa Def. Tokuei Masaki by rear-naked choke Round 1 2:23
3. Welter: Daisuke Teramoto Def. Yosuke Yaguchi by DQ (Yosuke did not make weight)
2. Light: Kazuki Tokutomei Def. Shin Fujimoto by arm-bar Roune 1 2:01
1. Feather: Katsunori Tsuda Def. Yoji Saito by TKO Round 1 2:54

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11/7 Sengoku 11 - Participants and Rumors

Sengoku made some additional announcements about future events yesterday, in addition to that there are some very interesting rumors going around.

To take what is confirmed first:
Sengoku 11 will take place on November 11 in Ryogoku Kokugikan, that is normally the venue for the Sumo tournaments in Tokyo and is a very good arena.

3 fighters are confirmed: Kevin Randleman, Michihiro Omigawa and middleweight champion Jorge Santiago.

Jorge Santiago was meant to be facing the winner of Kazuo Misaki and Kazuhiro Nakamura, but with Misaki's legal problems that option was discarded. It remains to see who the opponent will be.

For the rumors:
-Josh Barnett is expected to participate in the Sengoku 11 event. There has been rumors of it being a heayweight title fight.
-There are rumors that Kevin Randleman's opponent will be King Mo.
-Satoru Kitaoka, Akihiro Gono and Eiji Mitsuoka are possible participants for Sengoku 11.

Cofirmed Participants:
Kevin Randleman 17-13-0
Michihiro Omigawa 7-8-1
Jorge Santiago 21-7-0


For the NYE event it will be held in Ariake Colosseum, Sengoku have not yet deceided on a date, it will either be 12/31 (head to head with Dynamite!) or 1/3. Satoshi Ishii has confirmed to Sportsnavi that he will make his debut at this event.

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10/10 DEEP 44 Impact - Title Fight Announced

DEEP 44 Impact is a return to Korakuen Hall, after having Impact events in Osaka and Hamamatsu.

And they have already announced a title fight, it is the megaton title that will be on the line here. The champion Yusuke Kawaguchi will take on Seigo Mizuguchi in what is a rematch. The first time they met was to the day 2 years ago. On that occation it took just above 2 minutes for Kawaguchi to put away Seigo.

Also announced is former champion Hidehiko Hasegawa, he will take on Pride and HERO's veteran Ryuki Ueyama who returned to the ring with a win, after over 2 years away earlier this year.

DEEP Megaton Title Fight:
Yusuke Kawaguchi 9-1-0 vs. 6-4-0 Seigo Mizuguchi

Hidehiko Hasegawa 17-12-6 vs. 10-11-4 Ryuki Ueyama
Yuya Shirai 16-8-0 vs. 8-11-3 Shigetoshi Iwase
Hiryu Okamoto 3-2-1 vs. 0-1-0 Takashige "Crazy Hill" Hirukawa
Tatsunao Nagakura vs. 2-2-1 Fuhito Hasegawa

Future Fight:
Tatsuhito Satsuma 1-2-0 vs. 1-1-0 Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Paricipants:
Miku Matsumoto 21-4-0
Ryuta Sakurai 18-16-4
Toshiaki Kitada 9-4-2
Hiromitsu Kanehara 18-22-1
Akira Hiju
Tomoya Kato

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9/23 Sengoku 10 - Fight Order

Sengoku have made some big announcements today.

First of was the fight order for Sengoku 10, and it is a very good card. The addition of Hiroshi Izumi to this card should attract some main stream attention. But there are some very good fights on this card, standing out to me is the fight between Nick Thompson and Dan Hornbuckle, also the lightweight bettle between Kazunori Yokota and Ryan Schultz should make sure that this is an event worth the ticket prices.

Hiroshi Izumi gets to fight in the main event, he is takeing on the Kiwi Antz Nansen. The co-main event has been given to the heavyweights former EliteXC champion Antonio Silva is taking on "Big" Jim York.

In the opening fights we will see the winners of the Japanese and Korean "rookie" tournaments face eachother in 3 fights that should be very good. I hope we get to see them.

11. Light-Heavy: Hiroshi Izumi (debut) vs. Antz "notorious" Nansen
10. Heavy: Antonio Silva 12-1-0 vs. 11-2-0 "Big" Jim York
9. Welter: Makoto Takimoto 5-5-0 vs. 5-4-0 Jae Sun Lee
8. Light: Kazunori Yokota 9-2-3 vs. 20-11-1 Ryan Schultz
7. Light-Heavy: Ryo Kawamura 10-4-2 vs. 11-5-0 Fabio Silva
6. Welter: Nick Thompson 38-11-1 vs. 18-2-0 Dan Hornbuckle
5. Middle: Takenori Sato 9-6-4 vs. 42-12-0 Joe Doerksen
4. Light: Maximo Blanco 3-2-1 vs. 3-1-0 Tetsuya Yamada

Opening fights:
3. Light: Ikuo Usuda 5-0-0 vs. 1-0-0 Baek Woo Hyun
2. Feather: Shigeki Osawa 3-0-0 vs. Kim Ki Hyun
1. Bantam: Ryosuke Komori 4-1-0 vs. So Jee Hyun

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10/6 DREAM 11 - "Hellboy" Hansen T-Shirts Available

The t-shirt for Joachim Hansen's DREAM 11 fight is now available from his blog. This is the same design as last time, which means he has designed it himself. This is a limited edition, and the previous one sold out (bought the last one outside the stadium myself), except for the ladies style shirt.

This time the shirts are grey/silver, and you can order them here. This is a good chance to secure a shirt that is normally only sold outside the arena, and of course it is a cool shirt too!

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