Lightweight prospects Maximo Blanco and Leonardo Santos will do battle at Sengoku Raiden Championships 15 on October 30. Also announced for the show were the pairings for Sengoku's 2010 Asia Bantamweight Tournament quarterfinals.
Former flyweight King of Pancrase Mitsuhisa Sunabe (13-6-3) knocked out Shooto import Noboru "Shinpei" Tahara (9-5-1) with a vicious slam in the third round of their bout in Tokyo on Sunday. With the win, Sunabe earned a rematch against the man who took his title, current champion Kiyotaka Shimizu. In other action, Manabu Inoue (10-5-1) took a unanimous decision over Tashiro "Akai" Nishiuchi (14-7-10), defending his bantamweight title and running his current win streak to four. Inoue will next enter the quarterfinals of Sengoku's 2010 Asia Bantamweight Tournament. The main event saw light-heavyweight champ Ryo Kawamura (12-6-2) upset by journeyman Yuji Sakuragi (12-16-1, 1 NC) in a non-title affair. Sakuragi blitzed the slow-starting Kawamura from the opening bell and knocked him out with a barrage of punches just four minutes in to the match. Full results at Sherdog; photo by GBRing.
Sengoku Raiden Championships today announced the addition of four "recommended" fighters into its 2010 Asia Bantamweight Tournament. Manabu Inoue, Akitoshi "Ironman" Tamura, Taiyo Nakahara and Shunichi Shimizu all join the field.
