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World Victory Road today officially announced three bouts for its upcoming Sengoku Raiden Championships 12 event. Confirmed matchups include welterweights Akihiro Gono vs. Diego Gonzalez, heavyweights Yoshihiro Nakao vs. Henry “Sentoryu” Miller, and lightweight Leonardo Santos vs. Kiuma Kunioku. The event takes place March 7 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and airs on HDNet in North [...] Followingpart 1, this is the second part of the report on January 7 press conference during which World Victory Road (WVR) discussed the aftermath of the Dynamite!! 2009 fight card and new year’s plan for the Sengoku Raiden Championship. Hidehiko Yoshida, who bested Satoshi Ishii in the battle of judo Olympic gold medalists at Dynamite!! 2009, [...] World Victory Road (WVR) held a press conference on January 7 to discuss the aftermath of the Dynamite!! 2009 fight card on New Year’s Eve and the new year’s plan for the newly minted Sengoku Raiden Championship. Not surprisingly, the reflection upon the “DREAM vs. SRC” bouts at Dynamite!! took a contentious turn over Shinya Aoki’s [...] The final lineup and fight order for tomorrow’s “Dynamite!! 2009: DREAM vs. WVR” event is set. The event, which is a star-studded affair featuring K-1 bouts and MMA fights with competitors from DREAM and World Victory Road’s Sengoku event series, takes place on New Year’s Eve at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The event airs [...] A recently rumored contest between Strikeforce light heavyweight While DREAM, World Victory Road and K-1 officials have yet to make an official announcement, MMAjunkie.com today spoke with Mousasi’s manager and M-1 Global executive Apy Echteld who confirmed “The Dreamcatcher” is currently en route [...] Japan’s big year-end show is just days away, and the event airs live in North America early on the morning of Jan. 31. HDNet carries a live feed of FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009, a co-promoted show that pits some of DREAM’s top fighters against those from its rivals in World Victory Road’s Sengoku event series. The HDNet Fights [...] The year-end collaboration between DREAM, World Victory Road and K-1 continues to grow, and the promotions added yet another contest to the massive fight card. The organizations today announced that Dutch slugger Melvin Manhoef (23-6-1) will face “The Grabaka Hitman,” Kazuo Misaki (22-9-2), in an MMA-rules contest. The HDNet-televised event features both MMA and K-1 bouts and [...] While the massive year-end collaboration between DREAM, World Victory Road and K-1 is just a little more than a week away, that isn’t stopping the promotions from adding a few more bouts. The organizations announced two additional MMA-rules contests for the Dec. 31 event, as Shinya Aoki meets Mizuto Hirota and Tatsuya Kawajiri faces Kazunori Yokota. The [...] Bellator Fighting Championships added another star to its season-two welterweight tournament with the signing of top free agent Dan Hornbuckle. Bellator officials today exclusively revealed the signing to MMAjunkie.com. Hornbuckle (19-2), whose 2009 breakout year included knockouts of Akihiro Gono and Nick Thompson in the Japanese-based World Victory Road promotion, has posted stoppages in 18 of his [...] |
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