All fighters for this weekends “Sengoku Raiden Championship 14″ event made weight successfully for their respective bouts today at the East 21 Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
With tickets to Japan out of our price range we weren’t on hand but Sherdog.com was and was able to publish the full weigh-in results as well as speak to a few of the fighters.
Fans with subscriptions to HDNet will be able to watch the event live tonight beginning at 2 AM EST Sunday (11 PM PST Saturday). The show is headlined by a SRC middleweight title fight between champion Jorge Santiago vs. Kazuo Misaki.
“I plan to fight and finish in less time, maybe inside of four [rounds],” Santiago said. “That’s why I wanted to fight Misaki again, because I know I can [have] a better fight compared to the last time. I have more tools and I’m healthy this time. At the time, I came [into the title fight] from the tournament and I had a hand injury, so I think I can do better than that.
“I’m expecting the best Misaki ever,” the champion asserted. “I know he’ll be fighting to try and win back something he lost. But I’m the champ. I worked my ass off. Since the beginning, I had to fight in a tournament. I know how much it cost me to get the belt. I know what kind of fight he’s going to bring, and he knows what kind of fight I’m going to bring. I’m not looking for five rounds; I’m looking to finish this fight.”
SRC 14 weigh-in results
SRC Middleweight Championship:
Jorge Santiago (83.6 kg / 184.3 lbs) vs. Kazuo Misaki (83.9 kg / 185 lbs)
Akihiro Gono (70.3 / 155) vs. Jadamba Narantungalag (70.1 / 154.5)
Hatsu Hioki (65.7 / 144.8) vs. Jeff Lawson (65.5 / 144.4)
Sotaro Yamada (70.3 / 155) vs. Leonardo Santos (70.3 / 155)
SRC Welterweight GP Series 2010:
Taisuke Okuno (76.8 / 169.3) vs. Nick Thompson (77 / 169.8)
Kenta Takagi (77.1 / 170) vs. Yasubey Enomoto (77 / 169.8)
SRC Welterweight GP Reserve Bout:
Motoki Miyazawa (77.1 / 170) vs. Takuya Sato (76.7 / 169.1)
SRC Asia Bantamweight Tournament 2010 Round Two:
Shintaro Ishiwatari (61.2 / 134.9) vs. Kil Woo Lee (61.2 / 134.9)
Takuya Eizumi (57.4 / 126.5) vs. Shoko Sato (61.1 / 134.7)
Wataru Takahashi (61 / 134.5) vs. Tatsuya So (61.1 / 134.7)
Hirokazu Nishimura (61 / 134.5) vs. Jae Hyun So (61.1 / 134.7)