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Tentative Mega-Card for DEEP's 10th Anniversary Show Includes Shinya Aoki, Minowaman
For over a year, DEEP boss Shigeru Saeki has been promising an all-star line-up for the promotion's 10th Anniversary show, which will coincide with DEEP's "50th Impact." Pre-sale tickets for the October 24 event were made available during Friday's "49th Impact" event, and the great Japan-based...
Dream 15 Live Results and Play-by-Play
The long-anticipated lightweight showdown between Shinya Aoki and Tatsuya "Crusher" Kawajiri will finally materialize tonight at Dream 15, and Bloody Elbow will have live results and play-by-play of the show beginning with the HDNet broadcast at 3 a.m. ET / midnight PT. Be sure to join myself and...
Dream 15 Weigh-in Results
Weights courtesy of Sherdog's Tony Loiseleur: Shinya Aoki (70 kg / 154.3 lbs) vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri (70 kg / 154.3 lbs) Katsunori Kikuno (70 kg / 154.3 lbs) vs. Gesias Cavalcante (70 kg / 154.3 lbs) Gegard Mousasi (93 kg / 205 lbs) vs. Jake O'Brien (did not weigh in; reportedly still cutting)...
DREAM 15 Preview: Shinya Aoki, Tatsuya Kawajiri Collide in Clash of Top Japanese Lightweights
Following the emotional and physical beating that Shinya Aoki suffered back in April against current Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez, most fans felt that the question had been answered as to whether Japan's top lightweight talent could compete with the West. In fact, many fans...
USAT/SBN October MMA Consensus Rankings: Bantamweight
<!-- BEGIN RANKINGS TABLE --> Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1 Brian Bowles 100 WEC 1 2 Miguel Torres 96 WEC 2 3 Masakatsu Ueda 89 Shooto 3 4 Takeya Mizugaki 87 WEC 4 5 Dominick Cruz 84 WEC 5 6 Akitoshi Tamura 75 WEC 6 7 Joseph Benavidez 72 WEC 7 8 Rani...
USAT/SBN September MMA Consensus Rankings: Bantamweight
<!-- BEGIN RANKINGS TABLE --> Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1 Brian Bowles 100 1 2 Miguel Torres 96 2 3 Masakatsu Ueda 89 3 4 Takeya Mizugaki 87 4 5 Dominick Cruz 84 5 6 Akitoshi Tamura 74 6 7 Joseph Benavidez 73 7 8 Rani Yahya 63 8 9 Damacio...
USAT/SBN August MMA Consensus Rankings: Bantamweight
<!-- BEGIN RANKINGS TABLE --> Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1 Brian Bowles 100 WEC 2 2 Miguel Torres 96 WEC 1 3 Masakatsu Ueda 88 Shooto 3 4 Takeya Mizugaki 87 WEC 4 5 Dominick Cruz 84 WEC 11 6 Akitoshi Tamura 74 WEC 6 7 Joseph Benavidez 67 WEC 5 8 Rani...
DREAM Featherweight Grand Prix Semifinals, Reserve Bout Made Official
Though they were made known during HDNet's broadcast of DREAM.10, DREAM officially announced the pairings for the semifinals of its 2009 Featherweight Grand Prix at a press conference in Tokyo today. Both the semis and finals will take place at DREAM.11 on October 6th in Yokohama Arena. As...
USAT/SBN July MMA Consensus Rankings: Bantamweight
<!-- BEGIN RANKINGS TABLE --> Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1 Miguel Torres 100 WEC 1 2 Brian Bowles 94 WEC 2 3 Masakatsu Ueda 92 Shooto 3 4 Takeya Mizugaki 88 WEC 4 5 Joseph Benavidez 73 WEC 5 6 Akitoshi Tamura 69 WEC 6 7 Will Ribeiro 65 WEC 7 8 Damacio...
USAT/SBN June MMA Consensus Rankings: Bantamweight
<!-- BEGIN RANKINGS TABLE --> Rank Fighter % Promotion Last Rank 1 Miguel Torres 100 WEC 1 2 Brian Bowles 94 WEC 2 3 Masakatsu Ueda 91 Shooto 3 4 Takeya Mizugaki 88 WEC 4 5 Joseph Benavidez 72 WEC 5 6 Akitoshi Tamura 69 WEC 7 7 Will Ribeiro 64 WEC 6 8 Damacio...
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