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Snapshot of the Day: Sengoku Raiden Championship
2008 Olympic gold medalist Satoshi Ishii stands in the Sengoku ring during intermission last night. (Photo via Kamipro.) It was announced that Ishii's bout with fellow gold medal judoka Hidehiko Yosh...
World Victory Road's Sengoku Cutting Past DREAM?
From the incomparable Nightmare of Battle: A new article in Japan says that the contract of SENGOKUG! on TV Tokyo will end in September. It also says that TBS aren’t happy with DREAM’s ...
Women's MMA Finding New Life in Japan?
Could be. Jordan Breen reports: GCM's Valkyrie, which will hold its first card on Nov. 8, will not be the only all-female fight promotion in Japan, as from the ashes of Smackgirl, newly formed pare...
Japanese Round-Up: Kaz Nakamura to Sengoku, No Cro Cop/Overeem at DREAM.6
- World Victory Road announced that UFC veteran Kazuhiro Nakamura will drop weight to participate in the opening round of the Sengoku 2008 Middleweight Grand Prix on September 28th, along with Evang...
Kid Yamamoto Is Crafty
By now, fight fans are all too aware of the knee injury which Japanese featherweight icon Norifumi "KID" Yamamoto suffered in the lead-up to July's DREAM.5 show. The "pop" Yamamoto heard in his right ...
MMA in the U.S. Is Far from Its Peak
By way of Leland Roling of MMA Analyst I found Dave Meltzer's list of the top 10 most viewed MMA fights in Japan -- all of which had more viewers than Kimbo/Thompson. Here's the list: 1. Akebono v...
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