According to Tatame's Guilherme Cruz, Leonardo Santos has been forced out of his Oct. 30 bout with Maximo Blanco at SRC 15 due to a neck injury sustained in training. The match had been viewed as a title eliminator, with the winner earning the right to vie for the vacant SRC lightweight belt. Photo by Daniel Herbertson for Sherdog.
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.
Sengoku Raiden Championships 14 (SRC 14) takes place in Japan on Saturday and Bloody Elbow will have full live results, play-by-play and commentary beginning at 2AM ET. In the main event, middleweight champion Jorge Santiago defends his title against the former "Grabaka Hitman," Kazuo Misaki.
The main event of Sengoku Raiden Championship 12 features a high-profile middleweight rematch between American Top Team's Jorge Santiago and Polish sensation Mamed Khalidov. Khalidov won their first meeting.
