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DREAM.16 Promo Video: The Featherweights
Joachim "Hellboy" Hansen (19-10-1) Loss Hiroyuki Takaya KO (Punches) Dream.14 Loss Bibiano Fernandes Decision (Split) Dream.13 Loss Shinya Aoki Submission (Armbar) Dream.11 Win Shinya Aoki TKO (Punches) Dream.5 Hideo Tokoro (26-22-1) Loss Akiyo Nishiura TKO (Punches) Dream.14Win Jong Man...
Updated: Shinya Aoki vs. Marcus Aurelio Added, Jason "Mayhem" Miller vs. Kazushi Sakuraba Confirmed for DREAM.16
With only three weeks left before the September 25 event, Fighting and Entertainment Group (FEG) revealed the first set of matches for DREAM.16 at a Tokyo press conference today. Confirming rumors that Shinya Aoki (24-5, 1 NC) would face a fellow PRIDE veteran, the lightweight ace was announced for...
Vale Tudo Japan '09 Live Results and Play-by-Play
The wait is over! Shooto promoter Sustain resurrects its classic "Vale Tudo Japan" series tomorrow at Tokyo's JCB Hall, and Bloody Elbow has you covered with live results and play-by-play of VTJ '09 beginning at 5 AM Eastern / 2 AM Pacific on Friday morning. The main event will see former...
Vale Tudo Japan '09 Weigh-in Results
Participants for Sustain's Vale Tudo Japan '09 tipped the scales at Tokyo's Garden Palace Hotel today, and all fighters were on weight for tomorrow's festivities at JCB Hall. Of the main carders, only "Pequeno" Nogueira seemed to have trouble shedding pounds. The ex-lightweight ace was absent from...
"Pequeno" Nogueira Is Back to "Reconquer Japan"
A little over a year ago, then-unknown Brazilian Jose Aldo spoiled the U.S. debut of Alexandre Franca Nogueira at WEC 34. Despite reigning over Shooto's 143-pound division for years and possessing twice the MMA experience of his countryman, the man known as "Pequeno" was no match for Aldo's...
Shooto Tradition Final Results, Notes and Videos
"Lion" Takeshi Inoue (16-3) def. Rumina Sato (24-14-2) via TKO (Punches) at 4:41 of Round 1Takanori Gomi (30-5) def. Takashi Nakakura (11-3-1) via TKO (Punches) at 4:42 of Round 2Willamy Chiquerim (13-1) def. Yusuke Endo (12-3-2) via Submission (Guillotine Choke) at 5:00 of Round 1Mizuto Hirota...
Shooto Tradition Final Weigh-In Results
Shooto's last 20th Anniversary event - one of the best shows of the year which nobody will get to see - kicks off in Tokyo in just a few hours. Here are results from yesterday's weigh-ins via Sportsnavi; undercard fighter Bo Kyung Sol was listed as "absent." "Lion" Takeshi Inoue (65kg) vs....
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