Akihiro Gono who suffered a downright frightening knockout is doing well, relatively speaking. He suffered a concussion when he was KO’d by Dan Horbuckle at Sengoku 9 and spent the night in the hospital. He may have also suffered a sprained neck and some minor brain hemmoraging. While he probably doesn’t feel too [...]
The latest episode of the Sengoku TV show SengokuG is online, with previews of much of the Sengoku 9 card. HT: Nightmare of Battle:
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Here’s the latest episode of the weekly Sengoku television show, SengokuG. We’ve got the first part of the show below and you can catch the rest over at Nightmare of Battle.
SengokuG Episode 40 @ Nightmare of Battle
Since we place a high priority on fairness here at SAVSCI, we felt it only appropriate to offer World Victory Road’s ‘Sengoku’ ring girls equal time. Again, the video is in Japanese but you’ll likely not notice:
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Three preliminary fights have been added that will finalize the August 8th Sengoku card:
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Don Quijote Presents Sengoku G Tournament Finals:
Bantam: Takeshi Numajiri vs. Ryosuke Komori
Feather: Shigeki Osawa 2-0-0 vs. 6-2-0 Harai
Light: Ikuo Usuda 4-0-0 vs. 2-0-2 Koji Ando
These are the finals of the ‘Sengoku Gold’ tournament that they’ve been showing on their weekly [...]
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Sengoku has added a fight between Jung Chan Sung, aka ‘The Korean Zombie’, and Matt Jaggers to the 8/2 Sengoku 9 card. ‘The Korean Zombie’ is on a short list of the best nicknames in the sport.
Korean Zombie added to Sengoku card @ Nightmare of Battle
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 [...]
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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 [...]
