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Thursday, September 7th, 2006Today is the start of the heat-up for this weekend’s PRIDE show in Saitama (with two mega-matches on the card). Instead, K-1/HERO’s cleverly scheduled a press conference for today to announce a fight between Kazushi Sakuraba and Yoshihiro Akiyama in the second round of the HERO’s Light Heavyweight tournament (10/9 Yokohama Arena event). Shungo Oyama […]
Kurt Angle’s future
Friday, September 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Dave Meltzer notes that Kurt Angle is now being buried by the WWE. Either this is a strange angle or else they are really concerned that he is going to work in fact for TNA. In response to a Dave Ditch article about the former Olympian’s future in the fight game, […]
Sakuraba will fight in October
Thursday, August 31st, 2006By Zach Arnold The HERO’s promotion announced that Kazushi Sakuraba has been cleared to fight on the promotion’s 10/9 Yokohama Arena show. This was the show that was rumored to feature the debut of Brock Lesnar, but no mention of Lesnar fighting so far. Akebono & Kazuyuki Miyata were announced as participants for the 10/9 […]
K-1 & Lesnar in Las Vegas
Thursday, August 10th, 2006By Zach Arnold The promotion has a show this weekend at the Bellagio Hotel, and Brock Lesnar is expected to appear at a press conference to announce his participation in an MMA match for HERO’s. 8/12 Vegas card line-up here. I know that there were several other promotions interested in his services, including one group […]
HERO’s admits misjudgement
Monday, August 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Last week turned out to be bittersweet for Tokyo Broadcasting System, which televised both the Koki Kameda fight (that drew monster ratings) and the HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum show, featuring the debut of Kazushi Sakuraba in the K-1 MMA ring. Both of those fights had controversy, but there was another fight on […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo review
Saturday, August 5th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum results | Kakuto.com show review Anyone who gets a chance to watch some of the matches, feel free to write a comment to this post. Update: On Sunday, Akira Maeda gave comments to the media about the Sakuraba fight. Maeda stated that bad decisions were made by the referee, judge, and […]
Final HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Thursday, August 3rd, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) HERO’s rules: Kotetsu Boku vs. Alexandre Franca Nogueira HERO’s rules: Semmy Schilt vs. Kim Min Soo Middleweight Tournament: Hideo Tokoro vs. Ivan Menjivar Middleweight Tournament: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. JZ Calvan (Gesias Calvancanti) Middleweight Tournament: Kazuya Yasuhiro vs. Rani Yahira Middleweight Tournament: Kaoru Uno vs. Black Mamba Light Heavyweight Tournament: […]
Japanese MMA notes
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Satoru Kitaoka vs. Paul “Semtex” Daley was announced for Pancrase’s 8/27 Yokohama Bunka Gym show. Don Frye vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto was announced for HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum show. GCM Communications announced that a special “best bouts” episode of D.O.G. cage matches will air on TV Tokyo on 8/13 from 2:45-3:35 AM JST.
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card finalized
Friday, July 21st, 2006A press conference was held on Saturday to announce the participation of Kaoru Uno, Hiroyuki Takaya, and Hideo Tokoro for the Middleweight tournament (8/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum event). Genki Sudo will not work the show due to injury (K-1 claims Sudo has a herniated disc, causing numbness in his left hand). Updated 8/5 Tokyo card […]
HERO’s 8/5 Tokyo card line-up
Wednesday, July 19th, 20068/5 Tokyo, Ariake Colosseum (4 PM) Network – Tokyo Broadcasting System Card line-up: Light Heavyweight Tournament: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Kin Tai Ei (Seido Kaikan) Light Heavyweight Tournament: Shungo Oyama vs. Rodrigo Gracie Light Heavyweight Tournament: Carlos Newton vs. Melvin Manhoef Kin Tai Ei fought in […]
HERO’s 8/5 Ariake Colosseum notes
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006The promotion held a press conference today to announce the participation of Kazushi Sakuraba, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Rodrigo Gracie, Carlos Newton, Melvin Manhoef, Shungo Oyama, and Kestutis Smirnovas (RINGS Lithuania) in the HERO’s 2006 Middleweight & Light Heavyweight tournaments. Akira Maeda mentioned at the press conference that negotiations with BJ Penn were being finalized and that […]
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