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Make your HERO’s event predictions
By Zach Arnold | October 7, 2006
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Monday features two relatively big shows in Japan (one MMA, one pro-wrestling), with the MMA event being the HERO’s show produced by K-1 at Yokohama Arena. There has been a very high volume of press coverage for this event in the last two weeks, and most of it has been focused on what the media is treating as the main event (actor Ken Kaneko vs. Hideo Tokoro). You can view the event card line-up here.
Time to make fight predictions for the show. I want to read your picks, so post ’em. Read my predictions in full-post view.
Quick predictions
- Light Heavyweight tournament reserve match: Carlos Newton will beat Kendo Ka Shin
- Light Heavyweight tournament semi-finals: Kestutis Smirnovas will beat Yoshihiro Akiyama
- Light Heavyweight tournament semi-finals: Melvin Manhoef will beat Shungo Oyama
- Light heavyweight tournament finals: Melvin Manhoef will beat Kestutis Smirnovas
- Middleweight tournament reserve match: Ian Schaffa will beat Kazuyuki Miyata
- Middleweight tournament semi-finals: Kaoru Uno will beat Ivan Menjivar
- Middleweight tournament semi-finals: Rani Yahya will beat J.Z. Calvan
- Middleweight tournament finals: Rani Yahya will beat Kaoru Uno
- Super Fight: Don Frye will beat Kim Min Soo
- Super Fight: Antonio Silva will beat Georgy Kaysinov
- Super Fight: Hideo Tokoro will beat Ken Kaneko
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