4/25 ASTRA - Enson Inoue Added

Enson Inoue have been added to the Astra card on April 25. His opponent will be Antz "Notorious" Nansen, a kickboxer that defeated judoka Izumi in his Sengoku debut.

Makoto Takimoto announced his retirement and he will not be participating in this event.

Added:
Light-Heavy: Enson Inoue 11-8-0 vs. 1-0-0 Antz "Notorious" Nansen

Previously announced:
Yuya Shirai vs. 8-3-0 Che Mills
Michihiro Omigawa 9-8-1 vs. 13-3-0 Micah Miller
Tatsunao Nagakura 5-0-0 vs. 8-7-1 Akihiko Mori

Participants:
Hidehiko Yoshida 9-7-1
Kazuhiro Nakamura 13-10-0
Denis Kang 32-12-1

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3/22 DREAM 13 - Official FEG Looking for Opponent for Barnett

The rumors have been more or less confirmed, but FEG have today announced that Josh Barnett will be fighting in DREAM 13, but they have yet to find an opponent.

Also announced for the card is a featherweight fight between two WEC veterans. The Japanese will be behind Yoshiro Maeda as he takes on Cole Escovedo.

Added:
Feather: Yoshiro Maeda 26-7-2 vs. 15-4-0 Cole Escovedo
Heavy: Josh Barnett 24-5-0 vs. TBA

Previously Announced:
Featherweigth Title Fight:
Bibiano Fernandes (champion) 7-2-0 vs. 19-8-1 Joachim "Hellboy" Hansen

Light: Katsunori Kikuno 12-2-2 vs. 16-6-0 Kuniyoshi Hironaka
Light: K.J. Noons 7-2-0 vs. 6-3-1 Andre Dida
Open: Ikuhisa Minowa 44-30-8 vs. 14-12-1 Jimmy Ambriz
Welter: Ryo Chonan 16-10-0 vs. 2-1-0 Andrews Nakahara

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3/27 K-1 World Max Japan Tournament

FEG will have their World Max Japan tournament later this month, and it should be a good one again.

Outside of the tournament, I cant wait to see Petrosyan back in the ring again. He missed out on a HUGE fight on the Dynamite card due to injury, but a fight with Yoshihiro Sato should be a good way to return.

Final: Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2

Semi-Finals:
SF2: Winner QF3 vs. Winner QF4
SF1: Winner QF1 vs. Winner QF2

Japan Tournament Round 1 (3x3min, 1 round ext.):
QF4: Yasuhiro Kido vs. Ryuji
QF3: Taishin Kohirumaki vs. Yoichiro☆Jienotsu☆Nagashima
QF2: Hiroki Nakajima vs. TATSUJI
QF1: Yuta Yamamoto vs. Hinata

Superfights:
Giorgio Petrosyan vs. Yoshihiro Sato
63kg: Kazuhisa Watanabe vs. DJ.taiki
63kg: Kosuke Komiyama vs. Murahama "TAKE HERO"

Opening Fights:
Hiroyuki Owatari vs. Shintaro Matsukura
Yukihiro Komiya vs. Danilo Zanolini

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3/22 Shooto "The way of Shooto 2"- Big Rematch Announced

It is almost 5 months since Jung Min Kang burst on to the scene with a big win over Yoichiro Sato. Now they will meet again, and this time the winner will get a shot at the Shooto Pacific Middleweight title. That means a meeting with the current champion, Xavier Lucas.

Added:
Jung Min Kang 1-0-0 vs. 6-2-1 Yoichiro Sato

Previously Announced:
Shooto World Title Fight:
Masakatsu Ueda vs. Shuichiro Katsumura

Light: Katsuya Toida 11-9-3 vs. 3-0-0 Yusuke Yachi
Bantam: Yuki Shojo 9-5-2 vs. 7-6-2 Jesse Taitano

Rookie Tournament:
Fly: Shuichiro Okumura 1-0-0 vs. 1-1-0 Tomokazu "Kewpie" Sato
Light: Satoshi Inaba 3-3-1 vs. Kensuke Nakamura
Welter: Fumihiko Kawamura 0-1-0 vs. Shotoku Suzuki

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4/11 ShootBoxing - Hisae is Back!

Just as DEEP is losing their champion, the former champion re-surfaces in ShootBoxing. She has had an exhibition fight earlier, but this time its for real. She will be taking on the winner of the female S-Cup in 2009, Rena.

Added:
Hisae Watanabe vs. Rena

Previously announced:
Takaaki Umeno vs. Bovy Sor Udumson
Tomohiro Oikawa vs. Prajonsao Por. Pramuk

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4/25 ASTRA - Omigawa vs. Miller Announced

The Astra card will be all about Yoshida's farewell. But I am sure there will be some other big fights on the card too. Today one of them was announced.

Omigawa really turned his career around with his performance in the Sengoku featherweight tournament. In 2009 he went 5-1-1, making his MMA record 9-8-1. He will be taking on ATT fighter and DREAM, WEC and Shine veteran Micah Miller.

The other fight announced today will see the very promising Tatsunao Nagakura, who will take on the more experienced Akihiko Mori.

Added:
Michihiro Omigawa 9-8-1 vs. 13-3-0 Micah Miller
Tatsunao Nagakura 5-0-0 vs. 8-7-1 Akihiko Mori

Previously announced:
Yuya Shirai vs. 8-3-0 Che Mills

Participants:
Hidehiko Yoshida 9-7-1
Makoto Takimoto 6-5-0
Kazuhiro Nakamura 13-10-0
Denis Kang 32-12-1

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3/7 SRC12 - Results

I will update the results as soon as I have them here. The event is live now, but I am not aware of good places to get live results. I am finding these on japanese twitter accounts.

Hirota has entered the ring, and has returned his belt due to the injury suffered on NYE. He will be a commentator at the next Sengoku event on June 20, and is expecting to be back in the ring in September.

Kanehara is in the ring announcing that he will fight in June. Kanehara askes to fight Sandro. Sandro steps back into the ring saying that he wanted to fight as a Sengoku fighter on NYE, he respects Kanehara but he is #1. He accepts the challenge. I am not sure that it means the fight is official, but at least the fighters agree.

SRC Middleweight Title Fight:
8. Jorge Santiago Def. Mamed Khalidov by decsion 3-0 (48-47, 48-47, 49-47)
*For those waiting for the result: It has gone 2 rounds and it sounds like a close one. Santiago was close with an omoplata attempt at the end of round 2.

The fight is into the last round now!

7. Welter: Akihiro Gono Def. Diego Gonzalez by decison 3-0
6. Light: Maximo Blanco Def. Chang Hyun "Armbar" Kim by KO Round 1
5. Feather: Marlon Sandro Def. Tomonari Kanomata by KO Round 1
4. Heavy: Yoshihiro “KISS” Nakao Def. Henry "Sentoryu" Miller by TKO Round 2
3. Fether: Yuji Hoshino Def. Nick Denis by guillotine choke Round 2
2. Light: Leonardo Santos Def. Kiuma Kunioku by rear-naked choke Round 1
1. Feather: Shigeki Osawa Def. Kyung Ho Kang by Decision 3-0

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4/3 K-1 World GP 2010 in Yokohama - Super-Heavyweight Title Fight!

FEG have announced some awesome fights for their K-1 World GP in Yokohama. Already the event had a heavyweight title fight, and now it has a super-heavyweight title fight as well.

Add to that a lot of big stars and this should be an awesome event.

K-1 Super-Heavyweight Title Fight:
Semmy Schilt vs. Errol Zimmerman

Badr Hari vs. Alexey Ignashov
Alistair Overeem vs. Dzevad Poturak
Jerome Le Banner vs. Ruslan Karaev

Previously Announced:
K-1 Heavyweight Title Fight (3x3min, 2 round ext.):
Kyotaro Fujimoto (Champion) vs. Peter Aerts

Participants:
-Melvin Manhoef
-Remy Bonjasky

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4/17 DEEP 47 Impact - Miku's Farewell

DEEP announced earlier this week that Miku Matsumoto will have her farewell fight against Megumi Fuji. It will be an exhibition fight, but its still a fight I really want to see. With that, DEEP have lost most of their female stars. Hisae Watanabe is gone, Satoko Shinashi is on maternity leave and now Miku is going.

Exhibition Farewell Fight:
Miku Matsumoto vs. Megumi Fujii

Light-Heavyweight Tournament Semi-final and Final:
Ryuta Noji
Shunsuke Inoue
Christian “Tonton” M’Pumbu
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi

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3/19 Jewels 7th Ring - Fights Announced

Jewels have added 3 fights to their upcoming event. 2 weeks out, the card is filling up and I think this will be another sold out event in Shinjuku Face.

Hellboy is bringing Celine Haga over for another fight, she is 0-2 against some very good Jewels fighters. This time she will take on another undefeated Japanese fighter in Hiroko Kitamura.

Added:
-48kg: Kikuyo Ishikawa 2-1-0 vs. 0-1-0 Miyoko Kusaka
-52kg: Yuko Kagoshima 1-2-0 vs. Sakura Nomura
-52kg: Hiroko Kitamura 3-0-0 vs. 0-2-0 Celine Haga

Previously Announced:
-65kg: Hitomi Akano 15-6-1 vs. 7-1-1 Hiroko Yamanaka
-52kg: Mika Nagano 5-2-0 vs. 3-1-0 Mai Ichii
-58kg: Miki Morifuji 8-6-0 vs. 6-1-0 Shizuka Sugiyama

ShootBoxing Rule:
-54kg: Ai Takahashi vs. ASAKO

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