2/6 BULL TERRIER presents DEEP X05 - RESULTS

Earlier today DEEP held their 5th DEEP X, or grappling event. It was a very good card.

The highlight was a Japan vs. USA 3 fight competition. DEEP flew in some of the best grapplers from the US, to take on some of the best Japan had to offer. From the fighters, I thought the US would be the favorites, but Japan had the homefield, and of course some very good grapplers of their own. In the end Japan took it home 2-1.

Japan vs. US (3 Fights):
81.5kg: Keita "K-Taro" Nakamura Def. Paul Schreiner by Kimura Round 2 1:44
68kg: Baret Yoshida Def. Kohei Yasumi by Triangle choke Round 1 3:38
73kg: Takashi Yamada def. Ryan Hall by Guillotine choke Round 2 1:30

56kg: Sayaka Shiota Def. Rikako Yuasa by kneebar Round 1 0:22
Open: Marcos "Marquinhos" Souza vs. KOTESU Cancelled
66kg: Tsubasa Tobinaga Def. Akihiro Hoshino by armbar Round 2 1:21
85kg: Motoki Miyazawa Def. Yuji Arai by choke round 1 2:13
Open: Taijiro Ui Def. Yuichi Ozono by points 8-2
Open: Hideki Sekine Def. Singh "Heart" Jaideep by points 27-1

Opening Fights: 　
63kg (1x5min.): Yuruka Sasaki vs. Yasushi Kiuchi Draw
75kg (1x5min.): 崇寿 Matsumoto Def. Nobuto Horiuchi by points 8-2
69kg (1x5min.): Takehiro Isetani Def. Tatsuya Karasana by choke 4:04
70kg (1x5min.): Kleber Koike Def. Hideto Okada by points 2-0

Future Fights:
67kg (1x5min.): Takumi Murata Def. Kazuto Hamasaki by points 13-0
77kg (1x5min.): Takahiro Kanda Def. Naoto Miyazaki by points 4-2
65kg (1x5min.): Yuto Hirai Def. Yasufumi Suzaki by points 6-4
62kg (1x5min.): Michinori Tanaka Def. Satoru Ida

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3/28 Shooto "BORDER -season 2-" - "Amazon" Fighting

A pretty good card so far, announced for the 2nd season of "Border" in Osaka. This will be held in the Hirano Community Plaza.

Daisuke Sugie returned to Shooto late last year and got a win against Paulo Milano. Now he will be taking on another good opponent in "Hibiki" Tamura. I have to say that I am very excited about this fight, or any fight with "Amazon" for that matter.

Also on the card will be a very competitive flyweight battle with "Shinpei" Tahara taking on the veteran Junji Ikoma.

Fly: Noboru "Shinpei" Tahara 7-4-1 vs. 12-11-4 Junji Ikoma
Welter: Daisuke "Amazon" Sugie 8-6-1 vs. 10-3-5 Yukinari "Hibiki" Tamura
Light: "Jackknife" Tsuneo Kimura 5-2-0 vs. 3-1-0 Hiroshige Tanaka
Bantam: Ichaku Murata 4-7-0 vs. 3-2-0 Kentaro Watanabe

Rookie Tournament:
Middle: Ryuichiro Sumimura 0-1-0 vs. Yoshiaki Masuda
Fly: Masayoshi Kato 1-0-0 vs. 0-2-0 Takahiro "Kotetsu" Kobori
Fly: Tadaaki "Onibozu" Yamamoto 1-0-1 vs. Toshiaki Mitani
Welter: Fumihira "Crazy Berserker" Umezono 3-4-0 vs. 1-0-0 "Russian" Suzuki

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3/7 Shooto "SPIRIT 2010 Spring" - Fight Order

Today will be a "Shooto-day", there have been lots of smaller shows announced over the last week, and I will start with this one. "SPIRIT 2010 Spring" will be held in Sendai's Accel Hall.

I have to point out that the official Shooto site has Toshiaki Hayasaka losing his fight to Kosuke Kandaichi, Sherdog has him winning. From memory, I think Sherdog has this wrong, and Hayasaka will be going for his first win here.

9. Feather: So Tazawa 8-5-3 vs. Shisuo Yoktai
8. Feather: Toshiaki Hayasaka 1-4-0 vs. Daiju Takashim

Karate Special Fights:
7. Open: Takeshi Wagatsuma vs. Tomonori Sugiwara
6. 66kg: Hitoshi Watanabe vs. Takamaro Watari

Grappling:
5. Light: Tetsu "Hadairo" Suzuki vs. Shin Katayama

4. 54kg: Kazuyuki Yoshida 0-4-0 vs. 0-2-0 Nariyasu Fujita

Rookie Tournament:
3. Light: Akira Saito 0-2-0 vs. 0-1-0 Ikuya Sasaki
2. Feather: Masa Takano vs. 1-1-0 Takuya Ogura
1. Welter: Hiroya Onodera vs. Yoshikazu Fujiishi

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

DEEP have announced the matchups for their opening round of the lightheavyweight tournament. The finals will be on April 17.

I think M'Pumbu should be the favorite going in, but I hope Noji does well here. He has a great fighting spirit and I hope he gets through to the finals.

Also announced is a fight between the former DEEP champion, Hidehiko Hasegawa and Taisuke Okuno.

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

Non-Tournament:
Hidehiko Hasegawa 18-12-6 vs. 8-4-2 Taisuke Okuno

Previously Anounced:
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




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Asashoryu resigns from Sumo

One of sumo's biggest and most controversial stars resigned yesterday. Asashoryu at the age of 29 Asashoryu have won 25 sumo tournaments and is one of the biggest stars the sport has ever seen. But controversy has always followed the Yokozuna's career, the latest being a drunken assault.

Asashoryu told reporters:

I am grateful for everything. I will retire

Asashoryu has been "chased" by FEG for a while, and has been seen at their events. It will be interesting to see if they move in to sign the sumo star. The last Yokozuna to make that transition was Akebono, but I think Asashoryu would more suited for that transition.

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3/7 SRC 12 - Title Fight Official **UPDATE** Reis Out!

SRC have announced 3 fights for their next event in Ryogoku Kokugikan.

The until now rumored middleweight titlefight between Jorge Santiago and Mamed Khalidov is official.

Cage Force champion Yuji Hoshino will take on Wilson Reis, and Sengoku training player Shigeki Osawa will take on young Korean Kyung Ho Kang.

SRC Middleweight Title Fight:
Jorge Santiago vs. Mamed Khalidov

Fether: Yuji Hoshino vs. 9-1-0 Wilson Reis
Feather: Shigeki Osawa 4-1-0 vs. Kyung Ho Kang

Participant:
Maximo Blanco

FiveOunce of Pain has announced that Reis is out of this event, siting personal reasons. A BIG loss for SRC, as this was looking like a very good fight!

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2/13 ShootBoxing - Fights Announced

The first ShootBoxing event of 2010 is looking close to final. It has been announced that female S-Cup champion Rena will take on the 16 year old talent from Jabout in Australia. Jurjevic competed in the World Muay Thai Championships in 2009. It should be a good fight between 2 talented fighters.

Also announced, though NOT official is the matchup between ShootBoxing champion Tamaaki Umeno and Jabout's Dean Xuereb.

This is looking like a very strong event, and I am sure Korakuen Hall will be packed for this.

Officially Announced:
RENA vs. Christina Jurjevic

Announced on the Jabout website:
Takaaki Umeno vs. Dean Xuereb

Previously Announced:
ShootBoxing Japan Super-Featherweight Ranking Fight:
Akira Utagawa vs. Koya Shimada

ShootBoxing Japan Super-Bantamweight Ranking Fight:
Akito Sakimura vs. Kazuyuki Fushimi

ShootBoxing Japan Super-Featherweight Ranking Fight:
Takeshi Ishikawa vs. Hiroaki Suzuki

Noriyuki Imai vs. Tatsuhiro Takashima
Fuuka Kakimoto vs. Akari
Kuniyoshi Hironaka vs. Shinichiro Kuroki
Hiroki Shishido vs. Greg Foley

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2/6 BULL TERRIER presents DEEP X05 - Fight Order

DEEP is putting on their 5th "DEEP X" event. That means grappling, and they have some of the best grapplers in the world fighting here. The event will be held in Shinjuku Face.

The 3 fight tournament with Japan vs. the US. Grapplers such as "K-Taro", Paul Schreiner, Kohei Yasumi, Baret Yoshida, Takeshi Yamada and Ryan Hall it will be very interesting.

Also on this card is K-1 fighter Singh "Heart" Jaideep. Could this signal a move towards MMA?

Japan vs. US (3 Fights):
81.5kg: Keita "K-Taro" Nakamura vs. Paul Schreiner
68kg: Kohei Yasumi vs. Baret Yoshida
73kg: Takashi Yamada vs. Ryan Hall

56kg: Sayaka Shiota vs. Rikako Yuasa
Open: Marcos "Marquinhos" Souza vs. KOTESU
66kg: Tsubasa Tobinaga vs. Akihiro Hoshino
85kg: Motoki Miyazawa vs. Yuji Arai
Open: Yuichi Ozono vs. Taijiro Ui
Open: Hideki Sekine vs. Singh "Heart" Jaideep

Opening Fights: 　
63kg (1x5min.): Yuruka Sasaki vs. Yasushi Kiuchi
75kg (1x5min.): Nobuto Horiuchi vs. 崇寿 Matsumoto
69kg (1x5min.): Takehiro Isetani vs. Tatsuya Karasana
70kg (1x5min.): Kleber Koike vs. Hideto Okada

Future Fights:
67kg (1x5min.): Takumi Murata vs. Kazuto Hamasaki
77kg (1x5min.): Takahiro Kanda vs. Naoto Miyazaki
65kg (1x5min.): Yuto Hirai vs. Yasufumi Suzaki
62kg (1x5min.): Satoru Ida vs. Michinori Tanaka

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4/4 Pancrase Passion Tour - Fights Announced

Pancrase have also announced some good fights for the April 4. event in Differ Ariake. Part 1 of this event will be Neo-Blood Tournament fights, the second part is looking interesting already.

The two Pancrase veterans "J-Taro" and Keji Arai will both be looking to bounce back. "J-Taro" has lost 3 in a row and really needs a win here.

Another fighter in desperate need of a win is Takuya Eizumi. He had a great start to his career, and he also had a shot at the title. Now he is riding a 3 fight losing streak and the fans want to see him back on the winning track.

Part 2:
Feather: Masaya "J-Taro" Takita 9-12-2 vs. 15-14-4 Kenji Arai
Bantam: Ryota Sasaki 4-3-1 vs. 6-3-2 Hayato Shimizu
Fly: Takuya Eizumi 5-4-0 vs. 9-10-1 Yuichiro Yajima

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4/29 Pancrase Passion Tour - 2 Titlefights Announced!!

April will see Pancrase holding 2 events in Differ Ariake, this is the last of those. But there are already 2 title fights announced.

Middleweight champion Ichiro Kanai and welterweight champion Takuya Wada will both put their titles on the line, and the opponent will be deceided on Sunday.

Ichiro Kanai will take on the winner of the intrim King of Pancrase fight that will be deceided between Yuki Kondo and Takenori Sato.

The opponent for Takuya Wada will be deceided in the fight between Shingo Suzuki and Kengo Ura.

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