Sengoku middleweight champion Jorge Santiago (23-8) has been released by World Victory Road promotion according to MMAFighting.com and is now free to pursue a contract with other companies.
It’s likely that Santiago will look to sign with Strikeforce for his next fight. In a recent comment on Twitter (@SantiagoMMA), a fan said that he wanted […]
Sengoku middleweight champion Jorge Santiago (23-8) has been released by World Victory Road promotion according to MMAFighting.com and is now free to pursue a contract with other companies.
It’s likely that Santiago will look to sign with Strikeforce for his next fight. In a recent comment on Twitter (@SantiagoMMA), a fan said that he wanted to see Santiago face middleweights “Jacare” Sousa, “Mayhem” Miller and Robbie Lawler.
Santiago replied “I hope that happen too bro…. Let’s see it.” He also posted this message “… on my way to New Jersey with my big boy “Big foot Silva” for Strike Force..” in reference to Strikeforce’s media event for their World Grand Prix heavyweight tournament in New York this week. His appearance could certainly be part of a strategy to get signed by Strikeforce.
Santiago has already fought for Strikeforce participating in their one night Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives event back in November of 2007. He would win both fights to win the one night tournament and then head off to Japan.
While in Japan he fought eight times under the Sengoku banner going 7-1 earning the Sengoku middleweight title after winning the Sengoku Middleweight Grandprix in 2008. He’d defend his title twice, with his only loss coming to Mamed Khalidov in a non-title fight. Santiago would face Khalidov immediately afterwords for the title and would earn a unanimous decision win. He’s 11-1 in his last twelve fights.
Select video from Thursday nights Sengoku: Soul of Fights event has surfaced and we’ve got some of the bouts here for you to check out.
Yoshiro Maeda lays out Masanori Kanehara in the first round at 1:27. This is a great stand up fight with both fighters swinging for the fences, too bad it only […]
Select video from Thursday nights Sengoku: Soul of Fights event has surfaced and we’ve got some of the bouts here for you to check out.
Yoshiro Maeda lays out Masanori Kanehara in the first round at 1:27. This is a great stand up fight with both fighters swinging for the fences, too bad it only lasted the first round.
Taisuke Okuno, who replaced Dan Hornbuckle on just three days notice, lays out opponent Ryo Chonan with a wicked right in just 19 seconds of the first round.
Another great first round knockout brought to you by Jadamba Narantungalag who laid out Kazunori Yokota in the first round at 2:03. Nite, nite Mr. Yokota.
(Marlon Sandro shows off a kick he’s been working on called the ‘Flying Photoshop Material.’ Props: Sherdog)
Tomorrow’s year-ending Sengoku event in Tokyo may be short on gross mismatches, public executions, gender/rule-bending stunt fights, …
(Marlon Sandro shows off a kick he’s been working on called the ‘Flying Photoshop Material.’ Props: Sherdog)
Tomorrow’s year-ending Sengoku event in Tokyo may be short on gross mismatches, public executions, gender/rule-bending stunt fights, and Bob Sapp, but the card makes up for it in matches that are actually competitive and relevant. "Soul of Fight" will present a staggering 28 bouts of MMA and kickboxing; you can check out the full lineup at the end of this post. HDNet will be airing the bouts in a two-part series on January 14th and 21st, but we’ll try to post videos of the best fights as soon as we can. Here’s a few you might be seeing…
Marlon Sandro vs. Hatsu Hioki (for Sengoku Featherweight Championship) Soul of Fight’s main event is easily the most important featherweight bout possible outside of the WEC. Since debuting in Sengoku last March, reigning champion Marlon Sandro has become one of the most vicious knockout artists in all of MMA, dispatching his last three opponents in a combined fight time of 3:20. In his last fight, the Nova Uniao standout starched Masanori Kanehara in 38 seconds to win World Victory Road’s featherweight strap. Hioki, who is the reigning 143-pound champ of Shooto, might be the last elite-level challenge that Sandro will find in Japan, and brings an Aoki-esque grappling style that’s as creative as it is aggressive.
(photo and results courtesy of SRC-Official.com)
Weigh-ins for World Victory Roads upcoming “Sengoku: Soul of Fight” event took place on Wednesday in Japan at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, the same venue for Thursday’s event.
The event features a total of twenty eight bouts of various martial arts matches which include kickboxing, grappling, as well as mens […]
(photo and results courtesy of SRC-Official.com)
Weigh-ins for World Victory Roads upcoming “Sengoku: Soul of Fight” event took place on Wednesday in Japan at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, the same venue for Thursday’s event.
The event features a total of twenty eight bouts of various martial arts matches which include kickboxing, grappling, as well as mens and womens mma bouts.
A total of 56 fighters hit the scales with only one fighter missing weight.
Late replacement Taisuke Okuno was 1 kilogram over the limit for his welterweight match with Ryo Chonan. Okuno was a last minute replacement for an ill Dan Hornbuckle and has been issued a red card surrendering 20% of his fight purse to Chonan.
SRC featherweight champion Marlon Sandro (65.4kg) was on target for his title defense against Hatsu Hioki (65.7kg).
The full weigh-in results are as follows:
SRC16 featherweight championship – five minutes 5R SRC – Marlon Sandro 65.4kg vs. Hatsu Hioki 65.7kg
Soul of Fight at Sengoku 5 minutes SRC 3R middleweight One Match – Misaki Kazuo 83.6kg vs. Mike Seal 83.8kg
Soul of Fight at Sengoku Sengoku rules kickboxing class three minutes 3R 70.0kg – Buakao Poe. Pramuk 69.6kg vs. Nakashima Takahiro 69.8kg
Soul of Fight at Sengoku SRC Rule Women 53.5kg Class 3R 5 minutes – Megumi Fujii 52.9kg vs. Emi Fujino 53.3kg
SRC vs. DREAM single match against AC 5 minutes featherweight 3R – Kanehara Masanori 65.0kg vs. Yoshiro Maeda 64.2kg
*** The rest of the results after the jump ****
SRC vs. DREAM single match against AC 5 minutes Welterweight 3R – Taisuke Okuno (1kg overweight no official weight given) vs. Ryo Chonnan 77.1kg
SRC vs. DREAM single matches against five-minute exchange – Lightweight 3R – Maximo Blanco 70.3 kg vs. Won Sik Park 70.0 kg
SRC16 5 minutes; SRC Welterweight GP Final 2010 3R Series – Keita Nakamura 76.5kg vs. Yasubei Enomoto 76.9kg
SRC16 One Match – Lightweight 3R SRC 5 minutes – Kazunori Yokota 70.2kg vs. Jadanba Narantongaragu 70.1 kg
SRC16 One Match – Middleweight 3R SRC 5 minutes – Mamed Khalidov 83.5kg vs. Yuki Sasaki 83.6kg
SRC16 One Match 5 minutes; SRC heavyweight 3R – Yoshihiro Nakao 100.3kg vs. Dave herman 108kg
SRC16 – Bantamweight SRC Tournament semifinals five minutes 2R ASIA – Akitoshi Tamura 61.2kg vs. Taiyo Nakahara 61.1kg
SRC16 five minutes – ASIA SRC Bantamweight Tournament Semi 2R – Manabu Inoue 61.1kg vs. Shunichi Shimizu 61.2kg
SRC Rule 15 – Match – Women 61.0kg Class 2R 5 minutes – Hitomi Akano 60.7kg vs. Roxanne Modafferi 60.2kg
VALKYRIE 3 – three minutes the game open division provides R – Rin Nakai 63.4kg vs. Mika “Hari” Harigai 64.7kg
SRC Rule – Women’s games – five minutes 48.0kg Class 2R – Misaki Takimoto 48.0kg vs. Amy Davis 47.7kg
Muetairuru Sengoku Mini Flyweight (47.62kg) 2 5R minutes – Erika Kamimura 47.61kg vs. Chiharu 47.61kg
Heavyweight fight at Sengoku Muetairuru (86.18kg) 3 3R minutes – Cyclone Fabiano 100.0kg vs. Andrew Peck 113.0kg
Heavyweight kickboxing rules (86.18kg) 3 3R minutes – Ozawa Kazuki 88.0kg vs. Chang Lee 96.0kg
Muetairuru game Sengoku 3 3R minutes 73.0kg – Yuushi Miyamoto 72.64kg vs. Komata Hiroshi 72.83kg
Muetairuru game Sengoku 3 5R minutes 60.0kg – Uirasakurekku Kanonsukku 60.0kg vs. Genki Yamamoto 59.9kg
Muetairuru game Sengoku 3 5R minutes 52.0kg – Storm Fujiwara 51.85kg vs. Ebata Atsushi 52.0kg
Kickboxing match at Sengoku 3 3R minutes 70.0kg – Yuu Taro Yamauchi 69.35kg vs. Yokoyama Takeshi 70.0kg
Kickboxing match at Sengoku 3 3R minutes 70.0kg – Ikei Yuu 69.5kg vs. Matsukura Shintarou 70kg
An upcoming bout for this Thursday’s World Victory Road’s Sengoku: Soul of Fight event has saw a change as Bellator welterweight season 3 finalist Dan Hurnbuckle (22-3) has been forced off the card and replaced by Japanese fighter Taisuke Okuno (10-5-2).
Hornbuckle had been set to face Ryo Chonan (18-11) at the event but came down […]
An upcoming bout for this Thursday’s World Victory Road’s Sengoku: Soul of Fight event has saw a change as Bellator welterweight season 3 finalist Dan Hurnbuckle (22-3) has been forced off the card and replaced by Japanese fighter Taisuke Okuno (10-5-2).
Hornbuckle had been set to face Ryo Chonan (18-11) at the event but came down with a bout of influenza and was forced off the card. Chonan posted the update via Twitter on Dec. 25th and has since been made official by event staff today.
Chonan, a former UFC veteran, is 3-1 in his last four bouts coming off a TKO win over Jun Hee Moon last October at a Deep 50th Impact event. Before that he suffered a knockout loss to Jung Hwan Cha in April at the ASTRA event in Japan. Chonon is one of only four fighters to have ever defeated UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva, he did it back at a PRIDE event in 2004 by submission.
Okuno is 3-1 in his last four bouts and is a veteran Shooto fighter. He recently lost a unanimous decision to Yasubey Enomoto at a Sengoku Raiden Championship 15 event in October ending a three fight win streak. Those three wins came in various promotions such as Sengoku, DEEP, and Shooto.
Sengoku: Soul of Fight takes place this Thursday, Dec. 30th, at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan and features a 28-bout all day event. The event is expected to air in North America via tape delay on HDNet.
The two remaining bouts were announced by World Victory Road for their upcoming Dec. 30th “Sengoku: Soul of Fight” event.
Announced on Monday were the notable additions of welterweights UFC/DREAM fighter Ryo Chonan (18-11) vs. Sengoku/Bellator fighter Dan Hornbuckle (22-3) and female fighters Megumi Fujii (22-1) vs. Emi Fujino (9-4).
Chonan is 3-1 in his last four, […]
The two remaining bouts were announced by World Victory Road for their upcoming Dec. 30th “Sengoku: Soul of Fight” event.
Announced on Monday were the notable additions of welterweights UFC/DREAM fighter Ryo Chonan (18-11) vs. Sengoku/Bellator fighter Dan Hornbuckle (22-3) and female fighters Megumi Fujii (22-1) vs. Emi Fujino (9-4).
Chonan is 3-1 in his last four, earning a win at the Deep 50th Impact event in October. The Japanese fighter was last seen in North America at UFC 97, losing a split decision to TJ Grant. Hornbuckle is 7-1 in his last eight fights, bouncing back after losing to Ben Askren in the season 3 Bellator welterweight tournament. He defeated Brad Blackburn to earn a spot in the Season 4 tournament.
Fujii will fight for the first time since she had her 22 win streak stopped by Zoila Frausto in a controversial split decision at Bellator 34. Fujino’s ended a four fight losing skid with a win in her last fight earning a 24-second submission over Anna Saito at a Valkyrie 8 event in November.
“Soul of Fight” takes place on Dec. 30th at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan. The day long 28 bout martial arts festival features a mix of mma, kickboxing, and grappling matches which see part of the event broadcast in North America on HDNet, likely via tape delay.
NightmareOfBattle.com was the first to report the news. They’ve also got the full fight card for the event.
SRC MMA Rules
SRC Featherweight Title Fight (5R x 5min)
Marlon Sandro vs. Hatsu Hioki
SRC Welterweight GP Series 2010 Final (3R x 5min)
Yasubey Enomoto vs. KTaro Nakamura
Single Fights (3R x 5min)
LW: Maximo Blanco vs. Won Sik Park
WW: Dan Hornbuckle vs. Ryo Chonan
LW: Kazunori Yokota vs. Jadamba Narantungalag
MW: Kazuo Misaki vs. Mike Seal
FW: Masanori Kanehara vs. Yoshiro Maeda
HW: Yoshihiro “KISS” Nakao vs. Dave Herman
MW: Mamed Khalidov vs. Yuki Sasaki
SRC Bantamweight Asia Tournament Semifinals (2R x 5min)
Manabu Inoue vs. Shunichi Shimizu
Akitoshi Tamura vs. Taiyo Nakahara
SRC Ladies MMA Rules
Single Fights (3R x 5min)
OW: Rin Nakai vs. HARI
53.5kg: Megumi Fujii vs. Emi Fujino
Single Fights (2R x 5min)
61kg: Roxanne Modafferi vs. Hitomi Akano
48kg: Misaki Takimoto vs. Amy Davis SRC Jacket Rules
Single Fights (1R x 5min)
LW: Yukio Sakaguchi vs. Jin Suk Jung
LW: Sotaro Yamada vs. Lee Sak Kim
59kg: Kiyotaka Shimizu vs. Ichiro Sugita
Sengoku Kickboxing Rules
Single Fights (3R x 3min)
70kg: Buakaw Por. Pramuk vs. Hiroki Nakajima
70kg: Yutaro Yamauchi vs. Go Yokoyama
70kg: Shintaro Matsukura vs. Yusuke Ikei
+86.18kg: Kazuki Ozawa vs. Chang Seob Lee
Single Fight (2R x 3min)
61.23kg: Yuji Tanaka vs. Hironobu Ikegami
Sengoku Muay Thai Rules
Single Fights (5R x 3min)
52kg: Arashi Fujihara vs. Mutsuki Ebata
61.23kg: Kanongsuk Weerasakreck vs. Genki Yamamoto
Single Fights (3R x 3min)
+86.18kg: Fabiano Cyclone vs. Andrew Peck
73kg: Musashi Miyamoto vs. Hiroki Komata
Women’s Single Fight (5R x 2min)
47.62kg: Erika Kamimura vs. Chiharu
Sengoku middleweight champion Jorge Santiago (23-8) has been released by World Victory Road promotion according to MMAFighting.com and is now free to pursue a contract with other companies.
