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.
Sengoku Raiden Championship promoter World Victory Road announced four fights on Wednesday for its end of year “Soul Of Fight” event including the biggest featherweight bout in Japan for the year; Shooto Champion Hatsu Hioki will take on Sengoku Featherweight Champion Marlon Sandro in the Brazilian’s first title defense.