Author: Daniel Herbertson

Overeem-Edwards, Le Banner-Kyotaro Announced for K-1 Final 16

Filed under: K1, News, JapanK-1 President Sadaharu Tanigawa revealed two fights for the K-1 World GP FINAL 16 to be held on October 2 in Seoul, South Korea.

Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem will face Ben Edwards who tore through this …

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K-1 President Sadaharu Tanigawa revealed two fights for the K-1 World GP FINAL 16 to be held on October 2 in Seoul, South Korea.

Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem will face Ben Edwards who tore through this year’s Oceania GP, scoring three first-round knockouts and Jerome Le Banner, who recently claimed the WPMF Muaythai Super Heavyweight World title will take on current K-1 Heavyweight Champion Keijiro “Kyotaro” Maeda.

Bouts for the K-1 MAX Final 16, which is to be held the following day also in Seoul are to be announced this weekend and more Super-Heavyweight GP bouts are to be announced next Tuesday.

Tanigawa was this week quoted as saying that the much needed financial partnership with Chinese investment bank PUJI has been pushed forward to begin at the end of September and so PUJI money will be supporting the Korean Final 16 events.

Aoki vs Aurelio, Hansen vs Tokoro Announced for DREAM.16

Filed under: DREAM, News, JapanThree weeks out and finally DREAM.16 is starting to shape up.

FEG announced Sunday that DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki will take on Marcus Aurelio in a non title affair, Kazuyuki Miyata will face former Shoot…

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Three weeks out and finally DREAM.16 is starting to shape up.

FEG announced Sunday that DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki will take on Marcus Aurelio in a non title affair, Kazuyuki Miyata will face former Shooto champ “Lion” Takeshi Inoue and Joachim Hansen will look for his first win at featherweight against Hideo Tokoro.

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller was also confirmed and officially announced via DREAM’s official YouTube channel.

Yuji Sakuragi KOs Light Heavyweight King of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura at Passion Tour 8

Filed under: News, JapanTOKYO – Breaking a four-fight losing streak in Pancrase, Yuji Sakuragi stunned light heavyweight King of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura with a first-round knockout at Pancrase Passion Tour 8 in Differ Ariake on Sunday.

Also, bantamweig…

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TOKYO – Breaking a four-fight losing streak in Pancrase, Yuji Sakuragi stunned light heavyweight King of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura with a first-round knockout at Pancrase Passion Tour 8 in Differ Ariake on Sunday.

Also, bantamweight King of Pancrase Manabu Inoue retained his title with a point deduction in a scrappy decision win over second-ranked Tashiro Akai and former flyweight King of Pancrase Mitushisa Sunabe powerbombed Shinpei Tahara for a KO and chance to regain the Pancrase flyweight title.

Shinya Aoki, Ikuhisa Minowa, Kazuo Misaki, Ryo Chonan and More Planned for Deep 50

Filed under: News, JapanAlthough DEEP Boss Shigeru Saeki only revealed two fights on Friday night for the 10th Anniversary DEEP 50 card, ticketing service E-Plus has let slip an almost completed card Skill MMA has discovered.

Shinya Aoki, Ikuhisa Mino…

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Although DEEP Boss Shigeru Saeki only revealed two fights on Friday night for the 10th Anniversary DEEP 50 card, ticketing service E-Plus has let slip an almost completed card Skill MMA has discovered.

Shinya Aoki, Ikuhisa Minowa, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Kazuo Misaki, Katsunori Kikuno, Ryo Chonan, Won Sik “Parky” Park, Akira Shoji, Daiki “DJ Taiki” Hata, Takafumi Otsuka, Yoshiro Maeda and Kazunori Yokota are among the names planned for the biggest card in Deep’s history.

The full rumored card is after the break.

Jason "Mayhem" Miller vs. Kazushi Sakuraba, Joe Warren vs. Michihiro Omigawa Set For DREAM.16

Filed under: DREAM, News, JapanHDNet Fights CEO Andrew Simon has revealed that Jason “Mayhem” Miller will get his dream match against Kazushi Sakuraba at DREAM.16 on September 25th in Nagoya. Miller has been lobbying for a match with the charismatic Ja…

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HDNet Fights CEO Andrew Simon has revealed that Jason “Mayhem” Miller will get his dream match against Kazushi Sakuraba at DREAM.16 on September 25th in Nagoya. Miller has been lobbying for a match with the charismatic Japanese legend ever since his debut in DREAM back in 2008.

Joe Warren is set to face Joe Soto at Bellator 27 on September 2nd but that hasn’t deterred DREAM from matching him up with Yoshida Dojo’s Michihiro Omigawa. Omigawa earlier this week asked for a fight with DREAM Featherweight Champion Bibiano Fernandes but due to Fernandes’ issues with payment, he will not be fighting on the card.

Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Sengoku representative Marlon Sandro is also in the works and is now in the final stages of negotiation.

Masakazu Imanari, Riki Fukuda Retain Titles at Deep 49

Filed under: Results, News, JapanThe words “war of attrition” should never be used again. They should be retired in honor of Riki Fukuda vs. Ryuta Sakurai 3.

After five minutes and thirty-two seconds of MMA, the challenger Ryuta Sakurai was laid out u…

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The words “war of attrition” should never be used again. They should be retired in honor of Riki Fukuda vs. Ryuta Sakurai 3.

After five minutes and thirty-two seconds of MMA, the challenger Ryuta Sakurai was laid out unconscious on the floor by the side of the ring and the champion Riki Fukuda was left an eye that was cut, bleeding and swollen completely closed.

In the evening’s main event top-ten bantamweight Masakazu Imanari had little trouble decisioning Tomoya Miyashita, coming close with triangles, kneebars, armbars, omo-platas while managing to land a few head kicks and flying knees along the way.