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After falling short in the season-one tournament, former EliteXC champion Wilson Reis (9-1) will enter Bellator Fighting Championships season-two featherweight tournament, the promotion today announced. Eventual tournament winner Joe Soto defeated Reis, considered one of the tournament favorites, in the semifinal round last year. Bellator’s second season commences in April with live Thursday-night events on FOX Sports [...] Bellator FC standout Jorge Masvidal (18-4) has been added to Sengoku “Eleventh Battle” against former Sengoku lightweight champion Satoru Kitaoka (25-9-9) from the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena in Tokyo, Japan on Nov. 7 according to Tapology.com. The event will be broadcast stateside via HDNet. Kitaoka comes off a demoralizing loss to Mizuto Hirota at Sengoku: “Ninth Battle” in [...] The “Fireball Kid” will be back in action for what could possibly be his last fight in Japan. Takanori Gomi (30-5, 1 NC), along with Rumina Sato (24-14-2) and Takeshi Inoue (16-3), has been confirmed as a participant in the upcoming Vale Tudo Japan 2009 fight card on October 30 at JCB Hall in Tokyo, according [...] After suffering through a relocation of the event, the loss of an original main-event competitor and what seemed like a never-ending number of fight card changes, “M-1: Breakthrough” delivered a solid night of mixed martial arts action. However the night was so not kind to two-time UFC tournament winner Mark Kerr, who was knocked cold [...] After a series of changes to the night’s undercard, “M-1: Breakthrough,” the first of what M-1 officials say will be a “premium fight series,” is close to final with 12 total bouts. Despite the changes, the night’s main event between two-time UFC tournament winner Mark Kerr and fast-rising prospect Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal remains intact. The same [...] Win or lose, whether he’s with the UFC or not, 44-year-old Mark Coleman isn’t calling it quits on his fighting career anytime soon. The former NCAA Division I national wrestling champion and 1992 Olympian (and UFC 10 and UFC 11 tournament winner, first-ever UFC heavyweight champion, 2000 PRIDE Openweight Grand Prix champ and UFC Hall of [...] |
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