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Sengoku 11 Open Thread And Discussion
Be sure to join all of the MMA4Real night owls for the Sengoku 11 open thread and discussion thread. The event will air LIVE on HDnet beginning at 2am EST, which should be just enough time for t...
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...
Quoteworthy: Paulo Filho-"I'd Submit [Gegard] Mousasi"
Paulo Filho speaks with Tatame: I wanna fight Mousasi and show that with against me is a whole different thing… He doesn’t have my strength, he doesn’t have my level on the ground....
Sengoku IX: Featherweight Grand Prix preview
Sengoku IX will play host to the semifinals and final of the company's featherweight grand prix. What started March 20 at Sengoku 7 will conclude tomorrow in Japan. One semifinal fight features tour...
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 ...
Time Warner potentially dropping HDNet
The lights may finally go out on Japanese MMA. HDNet, Mark Cuban's MMA-laden television station, is currently in rocky negotiations with Time Warner. The cable provider is threatening to pull the ...
Sengoku Seventh Battle Weigh-In Results
World Victory Road will feature the Grand Prix in the featherweight division. The main event will feature rising star Muhammed Lawal vs. Ryo Kawamura. The event will air on HDNet a...
WVR: Sengoku Rebellion 2009 Quick Results And Thoughts
Hidetada Irie defeats Minoru Kato via TKO (punches) at 4:21 in Rd. 2 Maximo Blanco defeats Seigo Inoue via knockout (stomps) at 0:38 in Rd. 1 Mu Bae Choi defeats Dave Herma...
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...
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