May 2012
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Battle Genesis vol.10! Yamamoto Vs. Krat
The RINGS Battle Genesis series that returned with vol.9 earlier this year will hold the vol.10 event on May 27th. Click here to check out the card. Ryosuke Tanuma and Toshihiro “Kamen Rider Hiro” Shimizu will also participate on the card.
Vitali Krat is a typical RINGS Russian discovery and fought at the RINGS Reincarnation event where he got a solid KO win against Hisato Izawa.
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Ishiwatari Returns! Versus KID's Student
Exciting Bantamweight King Of Pancrase Shintaro Ishiwatari will return at the June 2nd Pancrase event to take on KRAZY BEE’s Nobutaka Hiyoshi who hasn’t fough in MMA since 2008. Hiyoshi is a hard puncher with many amateur Boxing fight under his belt. He is 2-1 in MMA (all fights in Cage Force) with both victories having come via (T)KO.
Also announced for the card, DEEP Future King...
April 2012
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King Of Pancrase Vs. King Of Road! Champions Clash
Fights have been announced for the June 2nd Pancrase event and the main event is something special as MIddleweight King Of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura will defend his title against Road FC Middleweight champion, the legendary Shungo Oyama.
An Interim Featherweight King Of Pancrase fight between champion Takumi (Nakayama) and the undefeated challenger Jon Shores.
A Featherweight fight between Shooto...
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K-1 Rising 2012! World MAX FINAL 16
The first fights for the K-1 RISING 2012 in MADRID event on May 27th have been announced.
K-1 World MAX 2012 FINAL 16
Mike Zambidis vs. Chahid Oulad El Hadj
Andy Souwer vs. Abraham Roqueñi
Artur Kyshenko vs. Su Hwan Lee
Xu Yan vs. Yasuhiro Kido
Gago Drago vs. Andy Ristie
Yuji Nashiro vs. Reece McAllister
Harut Grigorian vs. Murthel Groenhart
Chain Superpro Samui vs. Chris Ngimbi
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HEAT 23! Strasser Kiichi Vs. Gyu Myung Lee
A HEAT MMA rules fight has been added to the June 23rd HEAT 23 event.
Pancrase Welterweight ranker and recent title challenger Strasser Kiichi will take on undefeated Korean prospect Gyu Myung Lee who is 2-0 in HEAT and 3-0 overall in MMA.
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Krush.18! Ryuji Kajiwara X HIROYA
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Road FC 008! FINAL 4 - Bitter Rivals
Road FC 008. FINAL 4 - Bitter Rivals & Young Guns 4 will take place on June 16th at Chiak Gymnasium in Wonju, South Korea. The finals of the Bantamweight tournament with Kyung Ho Kang, Andrew Leone, Jae Hoon Moon, and Min Jung Song. Hopefully Kang gets a rematch against Leone after the decision in the quarterfinals (which got Kang another shot at advancing to the FINAL 4).
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K-1 Rising 2012! Badr Hari Returns
Superstar Badr Hari will fight at the K-1 RISING 2012 ~ in MADRID event on May 27th in Spain. Hari last fought and beat Gokhan Saki at an It’s Showtime event in January of this year. That was to be his last Kickboxing bout before converting to Boxing. However now it’s been announced that he will participate in K-1 2012 and his aim is to become the 2012 champion.
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World Featherweight Title Fight! Okazaki Vs....
The May 18th Shooto event is shaping up.
A Shooto Featherweight World Title Fight between champion Koetsu Okazaki and challenger Hiromasa Ogikubo. It will be Okazaki’s first fight in over a year.
Also on the card, the 77kg fight between KTaro Nakamura and veteran Yuki Sasaki.
Kuniyoshi Hironaka will participate on the card.
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K-1 Rising 2012 In Madrid! Shaping Up
K-1 RISING 2012 ~ in MADRID, the first K-1 event of 2012, will take place on May 27th and some participants have been announced.
K-1 Heavyweight Participating Fighters:
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (Croatia)
Daniel Ghita (Romania)
Anderson “Braddock’ Silva (Brazil)
Paul Slowinski (Australia)
Rico Verhoeven (Netherlands)
Loren Javier Jorge (Spain)
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Rin Nakai Returns! May 20th Pancrase Shapes Up
Undefeated and popular female fighter Rin Nakai will finally make her MMA return after the first draw in her MMA career in at Pancrase in September of last year. She will take on fellow undefeated Japanese Kyoko Kimura whose MMA career started late.
Other fights announced for the card are Tatsuya So vs. Hanareme Monjiro TK who hasn’t lost since 2010, Shinya Irei vs. Shinya Kumazawa at...
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Final Chance! Yoshihiro Akiyama Vs. Thiago Alves...
Yoshihiro Akiyama’s second fight at Welterweight and possibly his last UFC fight in case of a loss will be against Thiago Alves at UFC 149 in Canada on July 22nd.
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Uruka Sasaki Vs. Jungle Ito! Main Event At Gig...
2010 Shooto Lightweight Rookie Of The Year Tournament winner and grappling specialist Uruka Sasaki and Jungle Ito will main event the April 14th Shooto Gig Tokyo Vol.9 event. Sasaki lost for the first time in September of 2011 but got back on the winning track in January of this year at a DEEP event. He should be successful against Ito in his Shooto return.
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Kakutogi! Week 14, 2012
The biggest event this week, on April 7th, is definitely DEEP Cage impact 2012 in Tokyo. Click here for the card. Don’t be surprised if Wada defeates Otsuka. Wada is a much improved fighter since he started his MMA career.
Today we have Masakatsu Ueda and Hiroshi “Iron” Nakamura participating in the Bellator Bantamweight tournament.
On the 8th we have a ZST SWAT! event,...
March 2012
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Kakutogi! Week 13, 2012
This week has three MMA events to look out for.
In Japan on April 1st Pancrase will make another stop on their 2012 Passion Tour. The main event is very interesting as Koji Oishi will defend his Lightweight KOP title against Pancrase LWGP 2011 champion ISAO (Kobayashi) whose only career loss came against the champion Oishi. The event will be aired same-day on Samurai TV in Japan with a three-hour...
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K-1 2012! Starting With Madrid Event
K-1 - THE WORLD’S MOST EXCITING AND PRESTIGIOUS MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTING SPORT IS RISING - WITH MORE THAN TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN PRIZE MONEY IN 2012.
Today, the new “K-1 Production team” announces the rise of K-1, offering millions of devoted fans and new audiences, an established world-class brand of combat.
A wide array of the world’s best stand up fighters, square off face to face, bringing...
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Explosive Fight! Melvin Manhoef Speaks
Feared Dutch Striker Melvin Manhoef prepares to take on Deep Champion Yoshiyuki Nakanishi this weekend at ONE FC War of the Lions.
Originally scheduled to take on Babalu Sobral many feel that although not as well known in the western world, Nakanishi’s all action style could make for an even better fight come the weekend. Melvin himself eagerly awaits the new matchup and is not...
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Long-Term Agreement! Legend FC X Ustream
LEGEND TO BROADCAST FIGHTS ON USTREAM
Legend 8 to be first feature of long-term agreement
Hong Kong, 29 March 2012 (Thursday) – Legend Fighting Championship (Legend) today announced an agreement to broadcast its fights live on its Ustream channel (http://www.ustream.tv/LegendFC).
As part of the agreement with Ustream, Legend will broadcast future Asia-Pacific Mixed Martial Arts Championship...
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Tough Test! Female High School Student VanHoose...
The first fight for the May 20th Pancrase event has been announced.
16 year old Shino VanHoose will return to take on 27 year old Kikuyo Ishikawa in what should be VanHoose’s toughest fight yet by far.
VanHoose has an American father. She moved to the U.K. when she was 5 and started training Jiu Jitsu when she was 8. She then returned to Japan and joined Paraestra Hachioji (Masanori...
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Road to S-cup act.2! Lion Takeshi Takes On SB...
The fourth fight for the April 13th “Shoot Boxing 2011 ~Road to S-cup~ act.2″ event has been announced.
Former Shooto Lightweight world champion and DREAM Featherweight title challenger Lion Takeshi will take on SB Japan Lightweight champion Hiroaki Suzuki in a 60kg fight.
Suzuki has defeated other MMA fighters such as Shigeki Osawa and Mitsuhiro Ishida in SB and will look to go 3-0 against MMA...
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Road FC 007! Roan Carneiro Vs. Jung Hwan Cha
I highly recommend the Bantamweight tournament quarterfinal between Soo Chul Kim and Jae Hoon Moon from this event if you can find it. Amazing fight. The main event between Kyung Ho Kang and Shoko Sato was great as well.
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Legend FC 8! Jadamba X Nam Promo
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Top Bantamweight Fight! Tezuka And Shimizu Clash
The first two fights for the April 28th Pancrase event have been announced.
Isao Hirose will take on Daichi Kitakata in a Super Flyweight fight.
And the highlight of the announcement is a Bantamweight fight between Cobra Kai’s experienced youngster Motonobu Tezuka and ZST legend and SRC Bantamweight tournament finalist Shunichi Shimizu.
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Rematch! Ishikawa Vs. Utagawa 2
The third fight for the April 13th “Shoot Boxing 2011 ~Road to S-cup~ act.2″ event has been announced.
It’s a rematch between Tsuyoshi Ishikawa (SB Japan Super FW 4th ranked) and Akifumi Utagawa (SB Japan Super FW 2nd ranked) who first faced each other in 2008 in a very exciting fight that unfortunately ended in the third when Ishikawa injured his eye and the fight was judged a no...
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Punishment! Seiya Kawahara's KO A No Contest
First of all, watch Seiya Kawahara’s entertaining fight from the 11th.
Today he received quite hard punishment for what he did after the referee stepped in between him and his opponent.
No fight money, dropped off the Pancrase rankings, fight overturned to a no contest, and can’t compete in Pancrase pro or amateur events for 50 days.
After losing the title fight with Manabu Inoue...
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Road FC 007. Recharged! Takasuke Kume Enters The...
On March 24th in Seoul Road FC will hold their 7th main series event and their 3rd Young Guns event, bot with six fights each.
The last three Bantamweight Tournament quarterfinals will take place on the Road FC 007 event and as previously reported they are Kyung Ho Kang vs. Shoko Sato (sixth fight), Soo Chul Kim vs. Jae Hoon Moon (fifth fight), and Jae Hyun So vs. Min Jung Song (second fight).
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The Tour Goes On! Fourth Stop Set
The main card and fight order of the April 1st Pancrase event are set.
The main event will be a Lightweight King Of Pancrase title fight between champion Koji Oishi and 2011 Pancrase Lightweight GP champion and rising star ISAO.
The semi main event is a Welterweight fight between Sojiro Orui and former Shooto Pacific-Rim champion Yoichiro Sato who really needs a win.
In a Bantamweight fight...
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Road to S-cup act.2! Mamoru Returns To Shoot
The second announced fight for the April 13th “Shoot Boxing 2011 ~Road to S-cup~ act.2” event is a 57.5kg fight between Naguranchan Masa M16 and Shooto veteran Mamoru.
The previously announced fight for the card is Andy Souwer vs. SB Japan Super Welterweight champion Satoru Suzuki.
RENA and SB Japan Lightweight champion Hiroaki Suzuki will participate on the card.
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Krush.18! Ryuji Kajiwara And HIROYA Clash
The May 3rd Krush.18 event will have a double main event.
In the main main event Krush -63kg champion Ryuji Kajiwara, who last defended his title against Tetsuya Yamato, will take on HIROYA and in the first main event Krush -55kg champion Shota Takiya will face a yet to be determined opponent.
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Kakutogi! Week 10, 2012
Today we had the RINGS second coming event, tomorrow we have a big Shooto card, and on Sunday we have a fun Pancrase event with two titles on the line and Windy Tomomi’s retirement fight.
Also on Sunday Minowaman will be main eventing the GLADIATOR 30 event in Fukuoka when he takes on Shigeki Tsuchiya.
Both the Shooto event and the Pancrase event have three hour same-day slots on Samurai...
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DREAM X ONE FC! Kawajiri Vs. Donald Sanchez
Fourt Japanese fighters with opponents have been announced for the March 31st One FC 3 card at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Tatsuya “The Crusher” Kawajiri will take on Diego Sanchez’s brother (or not, see comments) and King Of The Cage Bantamweight champion Donald Sanchez in a Featherweight bout. Donald faced Hatsu Hioki in Shooto last year in what was Hioki’s last Shooto...
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Cage Impact 2012 In Tokyo! Otsuka And Wada Clash
Fights have been announced for the April 7th “DEEP Cage Impact 2012 In Tokyo ~Over Again~” event at Differ Ariake.
Former DEEP Bantamweight and Featherweight champion Takafumi Otsuka will look to get back on the winning track against the much-improved Tatsumitsu Wada. Wada went 0-5 in the beginning of his career but the Yoshida Dojo fighter is 7-1-1 (1 NC) in his last ten.
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Road To S-cup! Andy Souwer Vs. Satoru Suzuki...
The first fight for the April 13th “Shoot Boxing 2012 ~Road to S-cup~ act.2” has been announced.
Shoot Boxing legend and three time S-cup winner Andy Souwer will take on former Japanese Boxing champion and Shoot Boxing Japan Super Welterweight champion Satoru Suzuki. Suzuki is a real comeback fighter as he started his Kick career going 0-5 against guys like Masato and Mike Zambidis...
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HEAT 22! Kanehara To Bantamweight
Former Sengoku Featherweight champion Masanori Kanehara is moving down to Bantamweight for the April 8th HEAT 22 cage event where he will take on 11-1 Jake Hattan of the United States.
Also on the HEAT card, a HEAT Kick Rules Heavyweight title fight between champion Hiromi Amada and Japan-based Brazilian Fabiano Cyclone.
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February 2012
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Legend FC 8! Two Title Fights In Indonesia
Legend FC 8 will take place on March 30th in Indonesia.
Undefeated hometown fighter Fransino Tirta will take on hard-hitting Japanese Yusuke “Bancho” Kawanago to decide the Legend Featherweight champion. Both of them have unanimous decision wins over Chengjie Wu in their last fights.
Top Korean Lightweight Yui Chul Nam will look to win his fourth in a row and capture the Legend...
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Road FC! Middleweight Tournament Finals Footage
Road FC have uploaded the Final 4 fights on their YouTube channel. Very entertaining fights.
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Semifinal 1|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZKwfnlDuc
Semifinal 2|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQaX05r6hqk
Reserve Fight|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfPsP1pAfs
Final|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ibh0zbpFIg
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Road FC 007! Recharged
The 7th Road FC event will take place on March 24th and have some Bantamweight tournament quarterfinals.
Kyung Ho Kang will take on Japanese Sengoku participant Shoko Sato, Soo Chul Kim will face Jae Hoon Moon, and fan favorite Jae Hyun So will rematch Min Jung Song.
I believe Kang’s Road FC 006 fight against Andrew Leone was also a Bantamweight tournament quarterfinal match but he might...
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Road To S-cup Act 2! Fighters Announced
Some participants for the April 13th Shoot Boxing 2012 ~Road to S-cup act.2~ event have been announced.
Andy Souwer, RENA, Satoru Suzuki, Naguranchan Masa M16, and Hiroaki Suzuki are the announced fighters.
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Second Boxing Fight! Kyotaro Vs. OPBF Ranker
Former K-1 Heavyweight champion turned pro Boxer Kyotaro will enter the Boxing ring professionally for the second time on March 6th at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo where he will face 6-1 (5KO) OPBF Heavyweight 9th ranked Korean Jae Chan Kim.
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Chris "The Hammer" Haseman! RINGS Veteran Returns
New fights have been announced for the March 9th RINGS return event, RINGS ~reincarnation sairin~ (sairin=second coming).
42 year old RINGS veteran Chris “The Hammer” Haseman will make his RINGS and MMA return against undefeated Russian Gennadiy Kovalev.
Naoyuki Kotani will look to win his sixth in a row against fellow RINGS veteran Ryuki Ueyama.
The Outsider graduate Tatsuya...
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ZST Vs. RINGS UK! ZST.31 Shapes Up
More fights for the March 17th ZST.31 event have been announced.
ZST Featherweight champion Masayuki “Little Hong Man Choi” Okude will face RINGS UK’s Dean Reilly in a RINGS rules fight.
The awesome Shunichi Shimizu will take on another RINGS UK fighter in Rob McCrum.
“Former Super High School Student” Tetsuya Yamada had a great 2010 and will start his 2012...
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March 31st! The Crusher In One FC
The rumors are true. Tatsuya “Crusher” Kawajiri will be fighting at ONE FC: War of the Lions in Singapore on March 31. - ONEFCMMA
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UFC 144! Weigh-In Video
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Kakutogi! Week 8, 2012
This week there isn’t anything big in Japan besides the UFC card which I’m sure many other sites have covered extensively.
There’s a Shooto Shooting Disco event on the 25th with Hanzo Tanaka in the main event and a bunch of smaller events (mostly Kickboxing).
Hanzo Tanaka vs. Tsuneo Kimura
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UFC 144! Pre-Fight Press Conference
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Bantamweight Title Fight! Fujiwara Vs. Fusano
The first fight for the March 17th ZST.31 event has been announced
ZST Featherweight champion and DREAM participant Keisuke Fujiwara will defend his title in a 5 rounder against Tetsuya Fusano who is unbeaten in his last 8.
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BJ X Nam Jin Jo! The Return Of Horiguchi
Exciting new fights have been announced for the March 10th Shooto event.
Kyoji Horiguchi will return after his first loss ever to take on Tetsu Hadairo.
Former Shooto Bantamweight (Flyweight) champion BJ (Shinichi Kojima) will face the Korean Legend FC Bantamweight tournament finalist and Sengoku G! Korea champion “Crazy” Nam Jin Jo. So it looks like Jo is moving down to Flyweight...
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Mach Sakurai! March 16th In Russia
Hayato “Mach” Sakurai’s next fight will be at an M-1 event in Russia on March 16th.
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K-1 Koshien Is Back! March 17th, 2012 Under FIKA
K-1 godfather Kazuyoshi Ishii’s newly established FIKA (International K-1 Federation) will continue with the K-1 Koshien series as they have announced “The 5th All-Japan Senior High School K-1 Championship Tournament ~K-1 Koshien~” for March 17th in Korakuen Hall.
24 fighters have been announced for the tournament and two of them participated in the 2010 K-1 Koshien. They...
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Kakutogi! Week 7, 2012
There are two big cards in Japan this week.
Today we have Krush.16 with three main events.
In the main event of the triple main events K-1 World MAX 2011 Minus 63 Japan Tournament champion “The Smiling Demon” Yuta Kubo will take on Muay Thai champion Charles François in a ISKA World Light Welterweight title fight.
In the second main event veteran Fadi Merza will defend his ISKA...
