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The latest of World Victory Road’s event completed itself early this morning in Tokyo, Japan at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. The show aired live on HDNet for fans to watch.
Defending his title for a second straight fight was middleweight champ Jorge Santiago who earned a second victory over opponent Kazuo Misaki.
Misaki took to Santiago through […]
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The latest of World Victory Road’s event completed itself early this morning in Tokyo, Japan at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. The show aired live on HDNet for fans to watch.
Defending his title for a second straight fight was middleweight champ Jorge Santiago who earned a second victory over opponent Kazuo Misaki.
Misaki took to Santiago through most of the fight, earning three of the first four rounds. Behind on the score card the champ came out in the fifth looking to end the fight. After putting Misaki down on the mat, Santiago unleashed several submission attempts and strikes from the top. With just 29 seconds left in the fight, and almost assured a victory on the score card, Misaki’s corner threw in the towel to end the bout at 4:31.
“I showed what champions are made of. This is how I expect to fight.”
The full results for Sengoku Raiden Championship 14 is as follows:
Middleweight Title Jorge Santiago def. Kazuo Misaki via fifth-round TKO (corner stoppage)
Non-Tournament Bouts Jadamba Narantungalag def. Akihiro Gono via unanimous decision Hatsu Hioki def. Jeff Lawson via first-round submission (triangle choke) Leo Santos def. Sotaro Yamada via first-round DQ (illegal knees below the belt)
Welterweight Grand Prix Taisuke Okuno def. Nick Thompson via third-round KO Yasubey Enomoto def. Kenta Takagi via second-round submission (choke)
Welterweight Grand Prix – For a Reserve Takuya Sato def. Motoki Miyazawa via unanimous decision
Bantamweight Tournament Shintaro Ishiwatari def. Kil Woo Lee via first-round submission (guillotine choke) Shoko Sato def. Takuya Eizumi via second-round TKO (doctor) Wataru Takahashi def. Tatsuya So via second-round submission (rear-naked choke) Jae Hyun So def. Hirokazu Nishimura via unanimous decision
HT: MMAFighting.com for the results as it was too damn early for us.
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 […]
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)
If your a fan of Japanese mixed martial arts and you like to stay up very late (or get up very early as the case may be), then your in luck. HDNet will be broadcasting World Victory Road’s “Sengoku Raiden Championship 14: event live Sunday morning at 2 PM EST (that’s Saturday at 11 […]
If your a fan of Japanese mixed martial arts and you like to stay up very late (or get up very early as the case may be), then your in luck. HDNet will be broadcasting World Victory Road’s “Sengoku Raiden Championship 14: event live Sunday morning at 2 PM EST (that’s Saturday at 11 PM PST for everyone on the West Coast).
The show features an eleven fight card with a main event bout featuring a middleweight title matchup between champion JORGE SANTIAGO vs. KAZUO MISAKI.
You can check out the full lineup after the Press Release below.
Event to air LIVE from Tokyo – late Saturday night at 11:00 p.m. PT
WHAT: HDNet to air “Sengoku Raiden Championship 14″ LIVE from the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, late this Saturday night, August 21 at 11:00 pm PT. In the main event of the evening, Jorge Santiago defends his Sengoku Middleweight championship title against Kazuo Misaki. The fighters are meeting for a second time -the first match-up was in January 2009 at the Sengoku Raiden Championship event which determined the organization’s first-ever middleweight champion. Santiago narrowly beat Misaki late in the final round and Misaki wants to even the score!
Current TKO Major League MMA Featherweight Champion and Shooto Lightweight Champion Hatsu Hioki, will take on Jeff Lawson, who was recently featured in Ultimate Fighter 9, and Yasubey Enomoto will face tough competition against Kenta Takagi, who has recorded all of his victories by a first-round KO. Sotaro Yamada has his work cut out for him, facing four-time BJJ World Cup Champion Leonardo Santos.
Also featured on the card are matchups including Taisuke Okuno vs. Nick Thompson, Motoki Miyazawa vs. Takuya Sato and Shintaro Ishiwatari vs. Kil Woo Lee. Also featured are Takuya Eizumi vs. Shoko Sato, Tatsuya So vs. Wataru Takahashi and Hirokazu Nishimura vs. Jae Hyun.
WHEN: Late Saturday night, August 21 at 11:00 p.m. PT.
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Middleweight Championship bout: Jorge Santiago vs. Japan Kazuo Misaki
Lightweight bout: Akihiro Gono vs. Jadamba Narantungalag
Featherweight bout: Hatsu Hioki vs. Jeff Lawson
Lightweight bout: Sotaro Yamada vs. Leonardo Santos
Welterweight Grand Prix bout: Taisuke Okuno vs. Nick Thompson
Welterweight Grand Prix bout: Kenta Takagi vs. Yasubey Enomoto
Welterweight Grand Prix Reserve bout: Motoki Miyazawa vs. Takuya Sato
Asian Bantamweight Grand Prix bout: Shintaro Ishiwatari vs. Lee Kil Woo
Asian Bantamweight Grand Prix bout: Takuya Eizumi vs. Shoko Sato
Asian Bantamweight Grand Prix bout: Wataru Takahashi vs. Tatsuya So
Asian Bantamweight Grand Prix bout: Hirokazu Nishimura vs. Jae Hyun So
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World Victory Road held their latest event Sunday night in Japan, which was early Sunday morning for those of us in North America.
Sengoku Raiden Championship 13 was held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan and featured 13 bouts culminating with a main event title bout between champ Masanori Kanehara vs. challenger Marlon […]
World Victory Road held their latest event Sunday night in Japan, which was early Sunday morning for those of us in North America.
Sengoku Raiden Championship 13 was held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan and featured 13 bouts culminating with a main event title bout between champ Masanori Kanehara vs. challenger Marlon Sandro. SRC 13 also kicked off it’s Welterweight Grand Prix tournament.
With a stunning 38 second victory, challenger Sandro knocked out featherweight champ Kanehara to take the featherweight title. MMAFighting.com has the breakdown of the round as well as the full results.
SRC Featherweight Title Fight: Marlon Sandro def. Masanori Kanehara by KO (Punches) – Round 1, 0:38
It took just 38 seconds for Marlon Sandro to take Masanori Kanehara’s feathweight belt. The bout started with Sandro immediately seizing control of the center of the ring with the defending champion circling around him, feigning jabs and attempting to gauge the speed difference. This circling did not last long though and as soon as Kanehara moved to the corner, Sandro moved in with a jab that that was blocked, followed by a right straight. The finishing blow, as is becoming the norm for the Nova Uniao black belt, was the right uppercut which landed cleanly and ended Kanehara’s night early. A following left hook from Sandro as Kanehara stiffly fell forward to the mat missed but was not needed. Kanehara was stretchered from the ring and did not regain consciousness until back stage and Sandro was awarded the featherweight title.
The full SRC 13 event results are as follows:
Featherweight Title Fight: Marlon Sandro def. Masanori Kanehara by KO (Punches) – R1, 0:38
Light-Heavyweight: Hiroshi Izumi def. Chang Seob Lee by TKO (Punches) – R1, 4:37
Welterweight: Yasubey Enomoto def. Sanae Kikuta by TKO (Punches) – R1, 3:57
Lightweight: Maximo Blanco def. Rodrigo Damm by TKO (Punches) – R2, 0:45 SRC Welterweight GP Series 2010 Block A
– Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura def. Omar de la Cruz by TKO (Punches) – R2, 3:53
– Takuya Wada def. Jae Sun Lee by Split Decision
Featherweight: Shigeki Osawa def. Katsuya Toida by DQ (Kicks to the Groin) – R3, 1:35
Featherweight: Doo Ho Choi def. Ikuo Usuda Split Decision
Light-Heavyweight: Ryo Kawamura def. Hidetada Irie by TKO (Punches) – R2, 3:00
With so many fights happening this past week, Strikeforce: LA, Bellator 22, TUF 11 Finale, and WEC 49, it’s easy to forget that there are some excellent promotions across the ocean in Japan.
The DREAM promotion updated it’s DREAM.15 card with a couple of bouts. The weigh-ins for World Victory Road’s latest Sengoku Raiden Championship […]
With so many fights happening this past week, Strikeforce: LA, Bellator 22, TUF 11 Finale, and WEC 49, it’s easy to forget that there are some excellent promotions across the ocean in Japan.
The DREAM promotion updated it’s DREAM.15 card with a couple of bouts. The weigh-ins for World Victory Road’s latest Sengoku Raiden Championship event, SVR 13, took place on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan. A women’s event completed itself on Saturday with Valkrye 6, culminating with a flyweight championship bout between Naoko Omuro vs. Yasuko Tamada.
DREAM.15 will host the promotions opening round of it’s four-man Grand Prix tournament to determine it’s first-ever light-heavyweight champ, will see K-1 kickboxer Melvin Manhoef (24-7-1) take on Tatsuya Mizuno (7-5). Also announced was a lightweight matchup between Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante (14-3-1) vs. Katsunori Kikuno (13-2-1).
DREAM.15 will take place on July 10 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. HDNet will carry the event for fans in North America. You can see the current DREAM.15 card near the bottom of the post.
World Victory Roads Sunday event, Sengoku Raiden Championship 13, will see a featherweight title fight and the opening round of it’s welterweight grand prix tournament. The weigh-ins took place on Saturday at East 21 Hotel in Toyocho, Tokyo. The actual event will take place in Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan, also known as Sumo Hall, and will be shown on HDNet in North America on June 25.
Defending his Sengoku featherweight title will be Masanori Kanehara (65.7kg) who takes on Marlon Sandro (65.7kg). The full weigh-in results and event match ups can be found near the bottom of the page.
The womens event, Valkyrie 6, took place on June 19 at the Differ Ariake in Tokyo, Japan and featured five female bouts. Yasuko Tamada picked up her thenth victory as well as the Valkrye flyweight title after earning a unanimous decision over Naoko Omuro.
Keeping her record unbeaten at 7-0, was Rin Nakai who defeated Megumi Yabushita, who holds 36 professional fights under her belt, via unanimous decision. With so few female fighters in the sport of MMA, the 135 pound Nakai could find herself as a potential opponent of Strikeforce bantamweight Strikeforce champ Sarah Kaufman.
The full results from the Valkyrie 6 event can be found at the end of the post.
Props to MMAFighting.com for providing updates on the Japanese events.
DREAM.15
Lightweight title bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri
Lightweight bout: Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante vs. Katsunori Kikuno
Light-heavyweight tournament:
– Melvin Manhoef vs. Tatsuya Mizuno
– Gegard Mousasi
Sengoku Raiden Championship 13
SRC featherweight title fight: Masanori Kanehara (65.7 kg) vs. Marlon Sandro (65.7 kg)
Light-heavyweight bout: Hiroshi Izumi (92.5 kg) vs. Chang Seob Lee (92.2 kg)
Welterweight: Yasubey Enomoto (76.8 kg) vs. Sanae Kikuta (77.1 kg)
Lightweight: Maximo Blanco (70.2 kg) vs. Rodrigo Damm (70.2 kg)
SRC welterweight GP opening round:
– Omar de la Cruz (76.9 kg) vs. Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (76.7 kg)
– Jae Sun Lee (77.1 kg) vs. Takuya Wada (77 kg)
Featherweight: Shigeki Osawa (65.7 kg) vs. Katsuya Toida (65.8 kg)
Featherweight: Doo Ho Choi (65.8 kg) vs. Ikuo Usuda (65.7 kg)
Light-heavyweight: Hidetada Irie (92.7 kg) vs. Ryo Kawamura (92.3 kg)
Valkyrie 6
Valkyrie flyweight title bout: Yasuko Tamada def. Naoko Omuro via unanimous decision
Rin Nakai def. Megumi Yabushita via unanimous decision
Ayame Miura def. Mutsumi Kasai via unanimous decision
Naho “Sugi Rock” Sugiyama def. Megumi Morioka via TKO (referee stoppage) – R2, 2:20
“Butterfly Knife” Yuka def. Kimie “Sakura” Okada via unanimous decision
(SRC.com)
