That would be the original ‘Tiger Mask’ and founder of Shooto Satoru Sayama for those of you scoring at home:

Not much to the story, but here’s a picture of Keiji Mutoh aka ‘The Great Muta’ paying his media respects to the late Mitsuharu Misawa:

The name alone would qualify Tokyo’s ‘Brainbuster Sports Bar’ as the best in the world. Their focus on fight sports makes it even better.

Brainbuster Sports Bar Tokyo (in Japanese)

Nikkan Sports is reporting that Japan’s judo gold medalist and newly minted Sengoku MMA fighter Satoshi Ishii will be training at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. He’s recovering well from surgery to repair a minor hernia and expect to resumes training hardcore soon. There has been some concern in the Japanese fight sport [...]

The essential Japanese MMA blog Nightmare of Battle is reporting that Strikeforce may have the inside track toward signing Takanori Gomi. Affliction’s Tom Atencio indicated in a postfight interview after ‘Ultimate Chaos’ that his organization was close to signing Gomi, but that may not be the case:
From Gomi’s latest interview in MMA magazine Kamipro [...]

Sengoku is doing their own version of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ called the ‘Sengoku Gold Rush Project’. The lightweight fights aired yesterday in Japan, and the always excellent Japan MMA blog Nightmare of Battle has them linked. Here’s part 1, and you can get the rest by visiting the link underneath:

SENGOKU GOLD RUSH PROJECT [...]

This is too cool. More pics and the story at the Japanese culture blog Shibuya246:

The perspective shots showing how big the robot is are unreal.
Gundam Odaiba @ Shibuya246

Via the essential Nightmare of Battle:
A contrite Misaki has apologized to the fans and people of Japan and his status for his Sengoku fight against Nakamura is still up in the air:

Kazuo Misaki held a public apology today. He was very sorry for what had happened. He feels that he isn’t in the position to [...]

Via Nightmare of Battle:
Sengoku fighter Kazuo Misaki was found guilty of ‘interfering with a public servant’:
SENGOKU fighter Kazuo Misaki was sentenced guilty in Tokyo for interference with a public servant in the execution of his or her duties on June 25th.
On the afternoon of March 19th Misaki was found talking on his cellphone while driving. [...]

Here’s some more great commercials with the future UFC middleweight champion Yoshihiro Akiyama: