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Sunday, February 26th, 2006Some interesting news as far as FEG/K-1’s future plans and events are concerned. Since 1993, for thirteen years, K-1 have always used their prestigious openweight World Grand Prix series as the centre stage for fighters around the world. Hundreds of fighters from around the world compete in events promoted by K-1’s regional fighting network, with […]
More on “the arrests are starting”
Friday, February 24th, 2006By Zach Arnold English-version reports are starting to surface from the Japanese daily newspapers in regards to the arrests of Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza members on Friday. The first one is from Mainichi Daily News. Flashback: The arrests are starting
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka Vacates Super Heavyweight K.O.P Title!
Friday, February 24th, 2006In an official announcement from the King of Pancrase Committee earlier today, they accepted an offer in which Tsuyoshi Kohsaka wanted to vacate the super heavyweight King of Pancrase title as of January 20th 2006. Kohsaka aims to fight Mario Sperry at the next PRIDE event on February 26th in an attempt at a fresh […]
The arrests are starting
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006By Zach Arnold This morning at 3 AM in Japan, four members of Yamaguchi-gumi’s top committee were arrested in relations to events surrounding the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 12/31/2003 Kobe Wing Stadium show. The arrests made were in relation to events concerning Mirko Cro Cop’s non-appearance on the event, and also attempts to stop Emelianenko Fedor from […]
K-1 ASIA Tournament 2/25 Busan, South Korea Lineup
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006Saturday February 25 2006 BEXCO, Busan, South Korea The K-1 ASIA Tournament takes place this Saturday in Busan, South Korea, with the winner of the tournament earning a spot in the K-1 World MAX 2006 World Tournament on April 5th 2006 in Tokyo, Japan. Reserve Fight: Jung Hwan Jung × ? ASIA Tournament Quater Final […]
MARS 2/4 Show Airing 2/25 On Tokyo MXTV
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006GCM Communications have announced that their MARS 2/4 show, held at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, will air this Saturday afternoon February 25th 2006 at 3:00pm on Japanese television station Tokyo MXTV. Currently the show is being advertised as an hour-long episode. No news regarding whether or not the entire event will be shown in […]
K-1 World MAX 2006 World Tournament
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006First stage for the card line-up of the 4/5 Tokyo, Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I show (5:30 PM): Round one: Masato vs. Remigijus Morkevicius Round one: Yoshihiro Sato vs. Mike Zambidis Round one: Buakaw Por Pramuk vs. Virgil Kalakoda TATSUJI vs. Nick “The Ghost” Gonzales Also scheduled: Andy Souwer, Takayuki Kohiruimaki, and Albert Kraus
PRIDE 31 match order
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Here’s the match order for the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena card: Pedro Rizzo vs. Roman Zentsov Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Yoon Dong Sik John Olav Einemo vs. Fabricio Werdum Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Mario Sperry Sergey Kharitonov vs. Alistair Overeem Josh Barnett vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Kiyoshi Tamura Mauricio Shogun vs. Mark Coleman […]
Horror story in Kawasaki
Sunday, February 19th, 2006By Zach Arnold Expect this story (via Livedoor News) to pick up some attention in Japan. A 24-year old man in Kawasaki city was arrested for killing his 22-year old wife after applying an arm-lock on her. According to police statements, the man was emulating some of his favorite MMA moves that he saw from […]
A hard sell
Sunday, February 19th, 2006Yosuke Nishijima had a meeting with the press on Sunday at the Takada Dojo in Tokyo. This was to push his upcoming fight against Mark Hunt on the 2/26 Saitama Super Arena show. In this photo, Nishijima is trying to show off a choke sleeper hold on Kazushi Sakuraba. Nishijima claimed that his training in […]
K-1’s “Cinderella Boy” loses
Saturday, February 18th, 2006Hideo Tokoro, nicknamed “Cinderella Boy” by K-1, lost in the main event of ZST’s Differ Ariake show in Tokyo on Saturday night. He was KO’d in the second round by Lithuanian fighter Erikas Petraitis. The semi-main event saw Naoyuki Kotani & Darius Skliaudys go to a draw. Remigijus Morkevicius defeated Wataru Inatsu (U-FILE camp) in […]
Shooto 2/17 Yoyogi event
Friday, February 17th, 2006Results here. Gryphon has more notes on the event. Top Japanese female fighter Megumi Fujii won her fight on today’s event. She has super charisma. A total babyface. Click on the picture to check out her blog.
5 matches announced for HERO’s 3/15 Budokan show
Thursday, February 16th, 2006The 3/15 HERO’s Nippon Budokan show in Tokyo will have a “Japan vs. The World” theme. 5 matches have been announced for the card: Genki Sudo vs. Ole Laursen (Denmark/Kickboxing) Kaoru Uno vs. Rich Clementi Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Karim Ibrahim Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Ivan Menjivar Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Kim Min-Soo Update: Two more fights announced […]
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