Despite the shocking split-decision loss of their poster-boy, Takanori Gomi, World Victory Road plans to go ahead with a title fight between Gomi and tournament winner Satoru Kitaoka on January 4th, from Sherdog:

Despite Golyaev’s split decision victory over Gomi at Sengoku "Sixth Battle" on Saturday, the promotion plans to move forward with a Satoru Kitaoka-Gomi title fight on Jan. 4.

Kitaoka (23-8-9) -- who defeated Eiji Mitsuoka and Kazunori Yokota to win the grand prix -- was asked during a post-fight press conference at Hotel East 21 if he had any desire to challenge the man who bested Gomi. The 28-year-old Pancrase mainstay indicated he had no interest in a potential matchup with Golyaev, expressing disdain for both the Russian and Gomi.

"I have no need to fight that Russian fighter," Kitaoka said. "If it was me in there tonight, I would have crushed that Russian in seconds. I had a tougher time than Gomi -- my two fights tonight and my training for them -- so that’s why I said what I said [when I challenged Gomi in the ring]. Anyone have a problem with that?"

The same story confirms that middleweight tourny winner Jorge Santiago will fight Kazuo Misaki for the WVR middleweight belt at the same event.

Nightmare of Battle speculates on another possibility for the January 4th card, a light heavyweight tournament:

Hidehiko Yoshida said today that if there is a tournament (I don’t know if he means a first round or a one-night tournament) on January 4th, he will drop in weight to 93 kg. He wants to know as soon as possible though or else it will be too hard to drop.

A Light Heavyweight tournament is certainly possible now. With fighters such as King Mo, Nogueira, Randleman, Kikuta, Kawamura, Yoshida, Yang Dong Yi, and Jocz they could make a decent tournament.