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Sengoku: Soul of Fight Predictions

Filed under: Sengoku, JapanWorld Victory Road’s end of year event “Sengoku: Soul of Fight” is an ambitious effort. Twenty-eight men’ss and women’s bouts fought under MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, “jacket rules”, a featherweight title fight and welterweig…

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World Victory Road’s end of year event “Sengoku: Soul of Fight” is an ambitious effort. Twenty-eight men’ss and women’s bouts fought under MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, “jacket rules”, a featherweight title fight and welterweight and bantamweight tournaments.

Even more ambitious would be an attempt to predict every single outcome on one of the biggest fight cards of all time. Fortunately for my keyboard and my sleep schedule, I’m not an ambitious man and so after the jump I’ll break down the fights that you need to know about for the first of two huge nights in Japanese MMA.

Buakaw Por. Pramuk, Kazunori Yokota and Others Added to Soul of Fight

Filed under: Sengoku, News, JapanSengoku Raiden Championship promoter World Victory Road announced six fights on Thursday for its end of year “Soul Of Fight” event to be held at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo on December 30th.

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Sengoku Raiden Championship promoter World Victory Road announced six fights on Thursday for its end of year “Soul Of Fight” event to be held at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo on December 30th.

Recently crowned Shoot Boxing S-Cup Champion and two time K-1 World MAX Champion Buakaw Por. Pramuk will take on 2010 K-1 MAX Japan tournament finalist Hiroki Nakajima in a kickboxing bout while Grabaka’s Kazunori Yokota will try to claim revenge for former team mate Akihiro Gono when he faces Team Asashoryu’s Jadamba Narantungalag under MMA rules.

Also announced were kickboxing bouts, muay thai bouts and “jacket” matches (which are likely to be essentially combat sambo bouts) featuring the likes of Flyweight King Of Pancrase Kiyotaka Shimizu, WBC Muay Thai Bantamweight Champion Arashi Fujiwara and New Japan Kickboxing Flyweight Champion Mutsuki Ebata.

Sengoku 14 Preview and Predictions

Filed under: Sengoku, JapanWhile we hear reports of financial troubles over in DREAM, Sengoku is moving forward as Director Taro Mukai predicted “slow and steady.”

Sengoku 14 will feature middleweight champion Jorge Santiago granting Kazuo Misaki a re…

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While we hear reports of financial troubles over in DREAM, Sengoku is moving forward as Director Taro Mukai predicted “slow and steady.”

Sengoku 14 will feature middleweight champion Jorge Santiago granting Kazuo Misaki a rematch in his second title defense, the welterweight and the Asian bantamweight tournaments, Hatsu Hioki returning to Sengoku after capturing Shooto gold and Akihiro Gono will debut at lightweight against a sumo’s friend.

After the break, predictions so good, lets just call them pre-fight results.

Building a Road to the Future for Japanese MMA

Filed under: DREAM, K1, Sengoku, JapanWhen K-1 and DREAM promoter FEG announced the potential $230 million partnership with PUJI Capital and laid out a plan for global domination Sengoku Director Taro Mukai responded, “We’ll always take the slow and st…

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When K-1 and DREAM promoter FEG announced the potential $230 million partnership with PUJI Capital and laid out a plan for global domination Sengoku Director Taro Mukai responded, “We’ll always take the slow and steady route.”

“Slow and steady” may be good words to use to describe the growth of World Victory Road’s Sengoku Raiden Championship up until this point. Attendance numbers are solid but not great, some interesting talent has come in and some has left, the quality of the event is getting better and they have slowly become a profitable venture.

That is what the public see though. First under the direction of Takahiro Kokuho and now under Mukai, Sengoku and has been signing some of the biggest prospects in Japan, creating a development program, building gyms, holding tournaments and setting up the potential for growth that is anything but “slow and steady”.