Hello, Japan: Dan Hornbuckle vs. Nick Thompson, Kawamura-Silva II Added to Sengoku X
by Chris Nelson on Aug 18, 2009 8:00 AM EDT
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Takenori Sato, World Victory Road rep Kokuho and Ryo Kawamura at today's press conference
photo via Sportsnavi
Three more fights have been added to the rapidly growing September 23rd Sengoku card. Most notably, Dan Hornbuckle will make a quick turnaround following his vicious head kick KO of Akihiro Gono earlier this month. He'll face "The Goat," Nick Thompson, whose last fight was a TKO loss to Tim Kennedy in June, but who's also 2-0 in Sengoku. Before that, however, Thompson will have to get through French sensation Karl Amoussou, who he's scheduled to fight at M-1's "Breakthrough" event later this month.
Also on the slate: Light Heavyweight King of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura will attempt to avenge the only knockout loss on his record as he rematches Chute Boxe's Fabio Silva, while Pancrase's #1 ranked middleweight Takenori Sato goes toe-to-toe with veteran journeyman Joe Doerksen to see who takes one step closer to challenging Sengoku MW ace Jorge Santiago.
Updated card and more news (including Megumi Fujii's next opponent) in the extended entry.
Sengoku X
September 23, 2009
Saitama Community Arena
Saitama, Japan
Main Card
Light Heavyweight: Ryo Kawamura (10-4-2) vs. Fabio Silva (11-5)
Welterweight: Nick Thompson (38-11-1) vs. Dan Hornbuckle (18-2)
Middleweight: Takenori Sato (9-6-4) vs. Joe Doerksen (42-12)
Lightweight: Kazunori Yokota (9-2-3) vs. Ryan Schultz (20-11-1)
Lightweight: Maximo Blanco (3-2-1, 1 NC) vs. Tetsuya Yamada (3-1)
Sengoku Gold Cup Opening Fights
Lightweight: Ikuo Usuda (5-0) vs. Woo Hyun Baek (1-0)
Featherweight: Shigeki Osawa (3-0) vs. Ki Hyun Kim (2-0)
Bantamweight: Ryosuke Komori (4-1) vs. Jae Hyun So (2-6)
Announced Participants
Hiroshi Izumi (debut)
Antonio Silva (12-1)
Makoto Takimoto (5-5)
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Undefeated Japanese star Megumi Fujii will take on former DEEP champion Hisae Watanabe in an exhibition match at Shoot Boxing's "Girls S-Cup 2009" this Sunday, August 23rd. The bout will consist of two two-minute rounds, with the first round using Jewels rules (modified MMA) and the second Shoot Boxing guidelines (kickboxing with clinchwork and standing submissions allowed). Watanabe is returning from a two year "retirement" and, according to GBRing, considered participating in the S-Cup tournament before fracturing a bone in her foot during training.
UPDATED at 9:34 AM
A couple other bits of JEWELS news just emerged:
- Popular ex-S&M queen Hiroko (aka Yuko Yamanaka) will go up against "Super Benkei" Mayumi Aoki in a Shoot Boxing match at the S-Cup event. The fight is a rematch of an MMA bout from the first JEWELS event last November, where Hiroko took a unanimous decision.
- Mika Nagano (3-2 / S-KEEP/CORE) will go for her third straight win when she enters the -54kg (119 lbs) "Rough Stone" Grand Prix at JEWELS' "Fifth Ring" on September 5th. The tournament will start with a four-woman field, though the only other participant currently announced is Rina Tomita (2-1 / AACC), whom Nagano submitted in her last fight.
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DEEP continues to bring its big "Impact" shows to new cities, as the promotion announced on Monday that "DEEP Hamamatsu Impact" will take place on September 27th at Act City Hamamatsu. Hometown boy Shinya Aoki will be on hand as a special guest.
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Bit old, but here's a picture of Rumina Sato at the UFC Fan Expo (courtesy Inspirit Clothing) looking absolutely shredded at 140 pounds. Inspirit says Sato "might have [a] big fight coming up [at the] end of this year" at a "lighter weight class than he used to fight." Perhaps in the WEC? Since losing his Shooto lightweight title shot against "Lion" Takeshi earlier this year, Sato has been vocal about his desire to fight in the States.
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Shooto has released the final card for its second "Kitazawa Shooto 2009" event, sponsored by K'z Factory. Same as the first iteration, flyweight prospect Hiroyuki Abe (the one from K'z Factory, obv) is in the main event and it should be an easy win for him as he faces Paraestra Tokyo's Hiroaki Yoshioka, who's riding a five-fight losing streak. Outside of the main events, there are a lot of names on the card that I'm not too familiar with, so I decided to seek out some video and figured I'd post it up here.
Shooto
Kitazawa Shooto 2009, Vol.2
September 4, 2009
Kitazawa Town Hall
Tokyo, Japan
#8 - Flyweight - 3R x 5 min.
Hiroyuki Abe (5-1 / K'z Factory) vs. Hiroaki Yoshioka (5-9-2 / Paraestra Izumi)
#7 - Bantamweight - 2R x 5 min.
Toshimichi Akagi (5-4-3 / Cobra Kai) vs. Hiroharu Matsufuji (3-4 / Wajyutsu Keisyukai RJW)
#6 - Welterweight - 2R x 5 min.
Shin Kochiwa (5-1-2 / Wajyutsu Keisyukai Tokyo) vs. Junpei Chikano (2-5 / Rodeo Style)
#5 - Welterweight - 2R x 5 min.
Shinobu Miura (2-4-4 / Wajyutsu Keisyukai Tokyo) vs. Koji Nishioka (0-1-1 / Kugayama Rascal)
#4 - Lightweight - 2R x 5 min.
Yasuhiro Kanayama (3-5-3 / Purebred Kyoto) vs. Hiroki Kita (2-5-1 / Paraestra Tokyo)
#3 - Bantamweight - 2R x 5 min.
Masumi Tozawa (0-2-3 / Grabaka) vs. Yuya Kaneuchi (0-2-1 / Gracie Barra Tokyo)
#2 - Bantamweight - 2R x 5 min.
Akinobu Watanabe (0-0-1 / roots) vs. Keiji Koizumi (1-0 / Wajutsu Keishukai Tokyo)
#1 - Featherweight - 2R x 5 min.
Keita Ishibashi (debut / Wajyutsu Keisyukai Duro) vs. Isao Yoshida (debut / North King's Gym)
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I think Sato having a “big fight at the end of the year” most likely means a bout in Vale Tudo Japan 2009, rather than in WEC.
But, liking cake quite a bit, and also liking being able to eat it too, here’s to hoping that we see Rumina Sato in the WEC after VTJ, whenever it may be.
It’s becoming increasingly unlikely that he will achieve his goal of holding down a Shooto belt.
I wonder exactly what’s he’s got left for the WEC, though I hope for the best.
It ends in an armbar or a strangle regardless.
Yeah, he won’t get a Shooto world title, but I suppose it makes his career story tragically poetic given all the years he’s devoted to do it.
But still, he’s usually pretty intense for the first five minutes. He’ll always have that glorious burst of reckless energy from the opening bell and if he gets clipped, naturally it’s all over, but he can and will likely be entertaining until he either catches his opponent or gets caught himself. I think I’d still like to see that in WEC, just for fun’s sake.
Hornbuckle vs. Thompson
Is a solid match-up.
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That’s Kawamura. Dunno what the deal is, but he’s always wearing USA-themed clothes.
by Chris Nelson on Aug 18, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
And he's been wearing those NFL-shield trunks in various incarnations for years too
I’d love to know the exact impetus behind that look—his Pancrase profile lists his background as “Baseball and American football”, so presumably there’s a connection through his love of American sports?
It ends in an armbar or a strangle regardless.
Before he fought Mo Lawal, he was asked during a press day why he had a penchant for the stars and stripes. The question came about, naturally, from the fact that he’s always wearing the pattern, and the fact that at that moment, he was drinking some kind of sports drink from a cup with the stars and stripes on it.
One Japanese reporter asked him if it was because he loved the US or something, and he said something along the lines of, “no, it’s not that I love the US, per se. I just love the stars and stripes pattern. I wear it just because I feel like wearing it.”
The way the questions were phrased as trying to outing him as some kind of big fan of the US kinda’ fizzled out because Kawamura kept insisting he just liked the design more than anything. That he likes American sports probably helps (and Sylvester Stallone movies, namely the Rambo series, which he watched in its entirety to psych him up for the Lawal fight), but insofar as what he was saying to the media, he “just really, really [likes] the stars and stripes and that’s it, thanks.”
One interesting note from this all however was that he is a compulsive buyer of stuff with the pattern on it. Supposedly, it was Kitaoka (I think?) who told him that the cup he was drinking from was available somewhere in some store. Kawamura said that his friends usually always tell him about stuff with the stars and stripes on them, and he that soon after, he goes out and buys them.
Thank you!
I have been puzzled by that for some time.
I almost posed the possibility that he simply favored the look in my speculation above, but I thought maybe there was some deeper meaning. It’s almost more interesting this way though.
Gotta give a fighter a little credit for having a consistent and unique look.
It ends in an armbar or a strangle regardless.
No problem (^_^)b
The way I understood the exchange was that Kawamura obviously enjoyed American pop culture and whatnot, but he didn’t want to come off as sounding like he was a closeted US sympathizer. Like, the reporters basically started off subtly asking him a political question and he instead took the conversation to less heavy subject matter in answering “no, I just like the design.”
But who knows—maybe he does love the US but just didn’t want to sound like he prefers it over Japan?
The Misaki suspension sucks balls
there is a huge drop off from Misaki/Nakamura to Doerksen/Sato
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Hello Korea?
I don’t even know where to start with the Fighting Mixed Combative debacle, so I’ll just tuck that link here instead of making a post or fanshot.
I do hope the organization somehow survives this, purely because it’s an awesome name.
It ends in an armbar or a strangle regardless.
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