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Shooto: Shootor's Legacy 1 Results
I think this marks the real beginning for Japanese MMA in 2011. You know what that means, another year of bouts that a lot of people will miss, a lot of depending on catching videos after the fact online, and the chance to drop knowledge of the Japanese scene when people start talking about how...
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...
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...
Hello, Japan: Shooto Never Sleeps
The dust has settled following Shooto's star-studded final 20th Anniversary celebration and it appears the show was a success on all fronts: there were some great scraps, tickets to Tokyo's JCB Hall were sold out well in advance, and the event drew the attention of a number of hardcore MMA fans and...
