Muhammed “Mo” Lawal will replace the injured Roger Gracie and face Travis Wiuff at Sengoku 5. Lawal is making his MMA debut after a stellar amateur wrestling career that included 2 NCAA championships. Lawal has been training with Team Quest in California so he’ll definitely be ready….
UPDATE: World Victory Road has updated …
We’ve known about his injury for awhile now, but World Victory Road finally updated the Sengoku 5 card accordingly. Travis Wiuff is still listed as competing, but now he’ll take on the always tough ‘TBA’.
Sengoku 5 card @ Sengoku Official Website
Roger Gracie has withdrawn from Sengoku 5 due to an injury sustained during training. More details as we get ‘em.
World Victory Road has set a 11/1/08 date for Sengoku 6. A couple of the lightweight GP tournament matches originally set for 9/28/08 at Sengoku 5 have been moved to the November card:
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Eiji Mitsuoka
Kazunori Yokota vs. Mizuto Hirota
World Victory Road Sengoku Official website
Frank Trigg is making his pro wrestling debut on tonight’s No Surrender PPV in a “MMA rules” match against AJ Styles. We’ll a report on how it went later tonight/tomorrow….
UPDATE: Here’s The Wrestling Observer’s description of the match. It deals more with the crowd reaction to it rather than the actual match, …
World Victory Road has landed a deal with a Japanese broadcast TV network, TV Tokyo. The deal will include recap shows of previous Sengoku events as well as a live broadcast of the company’s New Years Eve event.
World Victory Road gets broadcast deal with TV Tokyo @ Nikkan Sports (in Japanese)
We reported late last night on the addition of a Roger Gracie/Travis Wiuff matchup to the Sengoku 5 card. MMA Junkie provides some more in-depth information on the fight:
In just his third professional MMA bout, grappling legend Roger Gracie (2-0) will meet ultra-experienced UFC/PRIDE/IFL veteran and 2008 YAMMA Pit Fighting heavyweight tournament winner Travis …
A couple of new matches added to the 9/28 World Victory Road Sengoku 5 card. A Sol Kwon will face Kiuma Kunioku and in a potentially very entertaining matchup Roger Gracie will fight Travis Wiuff. Gracie is on another level as a BJJ practitioner but Wiuff is a tough, experienced opponent.
World Victory Road …
World Victory Road continues to round out their Sengoku 5 card. Kazuhiro Nakamura will take on British vet Paul Cahoon and Jorge Santiago will fight the man with the worst nickname in MMA, Logan “The Pink Pounder” Clark. The updated card for their 9/28 show.
Ryan Schultz vs. Jorge Masvidal
Yuki Kondo vs. Yuki Sasaki
Xande …
World Victory Road has added a match between Xande Ribeiro and Takashi Sugiura to their 9/28 Sengoku 5 card. That makes the card to date:
Ryan Schultz vs. Jorge Masvidal
Yuki Kondo vs. Yuki Sasaki
Xande Ribeiro vs. Takashi Sugiura
Evangalista “Cyborg” Santos vs. Siyar Bahadurzada
Sengoku Official website(in Japanese)
