Next month’s ASTRA event, which is expected to feature the retirement fight of Japanese star Hidehiko Yoshida, today had a couple significant changes.
For the first time since April 2004, Enson Inoue, an early Shooto champion who owns a 1998 victory over Randy Couture, enters professional mixed-martial-arts competition and meets New Zealand kickboxer Antz Nansen.
Additionally, Japanese Olympic Judo gold medalist Makoto Takimoto, a
PRIDE and World Victory Road veteran expected to compete on the ASTRA
card, instead announced his retirement from the sport.