Comments on: Shukan Playboy: Sengoku NYE production was going to cost too much money

By: How K-1 Won The New Year's Eve War Without A Battle | Heavy.com

How K-1 Won The New Year's Eve War Without A Battle | Heavy.com — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:35:06 +0000

[...] time on their own or by bringing sponsors to the table. Shukan Playboy, a weekly tabloid in Japan, reported that Don Quijote chairman Mr. Yasuda was allegedly so upset with the proposed bill for the … that he backed out of the project and that the show was doomed without money or television. The [...]

By: MikeJJ

MikeJJ — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:38:11 +0000

Hope those freakshows in japan die out completely.

By: Sengoku: We won’t run Ariake Colosseum because of a ’scheduling conflict’ | FightOpinion.com - Your Global Connection to the Fight Industry.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:12:37 +0000

[...] When we last spoke on this topic, we addressed the Playboy report that Don Quijote balked at the idea of how much the price tag was going to be for the Sengoku NYE event at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. For a mid-sized arena, it’s not that outrageously expensive to run. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:07:35 +0000

That isn’t really news, though. We all just assumed from what network they were on that they were forced to pay out their asses

By: Cho

Cho — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:52:11 +0000

SENGOKU News: TV Tokyo Makes Yasuda Pay!!

Ace Japanese Reporter Gryphon just dug up some new news on the Sengoku situation and shares via twitter. It’s seems that Sengoku isn’t folding, but are being made to pay for their TV rights for New Year’s Eve:

Although ISHII vs YOSHIDA is greatcard,By SENGOKU nagotiation mistake,No TV come.An only one station is TV TOKYO,but they demand money
TV tokyo demand money,.to broadcast SENGOKU event…Anyway,Not TVstation pay SENGOKU but SENGOKU pay TV station……This is commedy!!
SENGOKU owner YASUDA(billioner in japan)get angry finally!! So SENGOKU NY eve will fail……This is PLAYBOY article,post said so..

It seems that Segoku is ready to put on an event, but can’t seem -to get iy it together on the TV.So that’s why WVR is co-promoting with FEG.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:30:28 +0000

Most of Sengoku’s fighters will end up in the smaller Japanese shows. The big stars will end up with FEG/Strikeforce. A couple may go to the UFC.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:31:34 +0000

Jenna Jameson is on Oprah right now (East Coast). They are showing Tito’s twins. Big kids…. Future fighters?

By: Wolverine

Wolverine — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:46:40 +0000

I know how Sengoku works (or worked I guess), but it amazes me that usually the same people who are so strongly against UFC domination in the US, are now happy that Sengoku is going under.

As for fighters they had some gems I’d like to see in UFC/WEC: Khalidov, Hornbuckle, Sandro, Hioki, Omigawa, Hirota, Yokota, Masvidal…

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:34:58 +0000

Jorge Santiago killed all of his value by losing his last fight. He might still end up in the UFC, but at a much lower dollar amount then he could have been.

“Suddenly competition is only good when it is direct UFC competition. Who cares about Sengoku fighters losing their source of income.”

Their source of income was from a really rich guy who decided he didn’t want to lose anymore money.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:10:11 +0000

I highly doubt UFC is interested in too many of the fighters, as they’re B-level for the most part even for Japan (which means automatic prelim duty in America.)

Guys like Nakamura, Yoshida, Nakao, Fujita and Misaki are much better off staying in Japan. And their heavyweights are more Strikeforce-bound if anything since the UFC is filled currently since a bunch of the TUF rejects will fill out the prelim space.

I predict the UFC just takes Santiago, Gomi and maybe Hirota and Kitaoka. But if they’re really going to shuffle around the WEC they’re be more likely to raid.