Success For W! “Tornado” Storms Through His Opponent

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The first ever W event took place this past Saturday. The new organization did an experiment by allowing elbows, which aren’t popular in all countries, and according to reports, the experiment was a success. With a Korean fighter having trained in Thailand and foreign fighters, the excitement of the fights seemed to go up with elbows.

In the most important fight of the night for MMA fans, Un Sik “Tornado” Song, returned to combat sports competition as he stormed through his opponent with a TKO victory in the second round after dropping his two times, once by punches and once with a knee.

Song currently has 1 year and 2 months left of his mandatory military service. Song chose desk work so that he could guarantee a training environment and is allowed to fight in Korea on his days off. After the fight Song said that he is planning to participate in BJJ, Wrestling, and Boxing separately and after another Kickboxing fight, he wants to fight for a W championship title.

K-1 MAX veteran Kim Se Ki also won on Saturday as he defeated his opponent by TKO in the 3rd round. In the main event of the night, undefeated in K-1 Heavyweight Hyun Man Myung won a unanimous decision in a 5-rounder to become the champion of some Muay Thai organization and get a spot at “The Khan 2″ against Kaoklai Kaennorsing.

Sources: Kamipro, mfight.co.kr

Aoki To America Early 2010?! Ninja In Dynamite!!?

Sherdog reports that Shinya Aoki could make his debut in a cage in early 2010:

“He’s fought for Dream and we’re hoping he’s one of the guys that we can bring over to our stable in the first quarter,” said Coker.

Coker mentioned Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson and interim champion Gilbert Melendez as two potential opponents for the fighter known for his colorful leggings and pretzel-bending submissions.

Aoki will be present at today’s Strikeforce event.

In other DREAM-related news, Tatame reports that Murilo “Ninja” Rua might fight in DREAM in December, which would mean a fight on the Dynamite!! NYE card.

The Khan 2! Min Soo Kim Vs. Sentoryu

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On November 27th, The Khan will return for their second ever event which will feature some big names.

Popular Korean female figher Su Jeong Lim will be in a 4-women one-night tournament.

K-1 MAX veteran Su Hwan Lee (advanced to the final of this years Korea MAX GP event) will face another K-1 veteran in Min Seok Kwon (young kid who had a really gutsy performance against Chi Bin Lim at the Korea MAX GP this year).

Jae Gil No (the guy who crushed the Japanese blond haired guy in an opening fight in this years MAX FINAL8 event) will take on Virgil Kalakoda.

Kaoklai Kaennorsing will battle the winner of the Hyun Man Myung vs. Nae Chul Kim fight which takes place in today’s W event.

Min Soo Kim will finally return to competition after getting out of his FEG contract to take on Sumo Wrestler turned MMA fighter, Sentoryu.

The best Korean K-1 fighter Chi Bin Lim will return against a yet to be named opponent.

RISE 60! HAYATO’s Retirement

Another Kickboxing event in Japan that is close to FEG is RISE. Many fighters in K-1 MAX, such as TATSUJI and Keiji Ozaki, originally got there through this event.

On November 22nd RISE 60 will take place at the JCB Hall and it has a few very good fights to be aware of.

HAYATO will have his retirement fight when he takes on 2005 RISE Dead Or Alive Tournament winner TATSUJI in a 3×3 minute fight with a possible extension round.

MAX veteran and 2006 RISE Dead Or Alive Tournament winner Keiji Ozaki has moved down to 60 kg and will look to grab the RISE 60 kg title as he faces champion Kan Itabashi in a 5 round fight.

In a fight which will decide the 2nd generation RISE 70 kg champion and give the winner a spot in next years K-1 World MAX Japan Tournament, 2007 RISE Dead Or Alive Tournament winner RYUJI will take on Yasuhito Shirasu.

Both have fought in K-1 MAX previously with RYUJI having lost both his fights by decision and Shirasu going 3-2, with two good wins in a row.

In a Heavyweight superfight, K-1 and MMA veteran Kin Taiei will return from his unfortunate fight against Morosanu at the FINAL16 event this year to take on Magnum Sakai.

Check out Magnum Sakai vs. Nathan Corbett from a few years ago, awesome fight:

70kg, 3×3 mins, 1×3 ext: HAYATO vs. TATSUJI
HW, 3×3 mins, 1×3 ext: Magnum Sakai vs. Kin Taiei
70kg, 3×5 mins, 1×3 ext: RYUJI vs. Yasuhito Shirasu
60kg, 3×5 mins: Kan Itabashi vs. Keiji Ozaki

Krush! Masato’s Opponent TBA Within This Week

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The Krush Lightweight GP 2009 Finals were held today in Japan. Krush is a young organization (4 events old I think) that is very close to FEG and fighters who do good there will get a chance in K-1.

In today’s event the great Masahiro Yamamoto (31-7-5) won two fights to become the champion of the 16-man Lightweight GP (around 60 kg I think). He avenged a past loss in the finals where he defeated Yuji Takeuchi, who got the a spot in the final after Naoki Ishikawa, who defeated him in the semifinals, wasn’t allowed to continue by the doctors.

After the fight, Yamamoto called out New Japan Kickboxing Federation’s Hiroki Ishii (44-9-10), saying that any fight location is fine for what would be a dream fight between two Japanese fighters.

Also on the event was the final of the 70 kg Road to MAX tournament where 21 year old Hiroki Nakajima defeated Yutaro Yamauchi by decision in the second extension round. Nakajima is now 10-0 with 7 (T)KO’s and as can be figured out by the name of the tournament we should see him in K-1 MAX in the future.

After the event, reporters caught up with FEG president Tanigawa. Tanigawa talked about Masato’s retirement opponent and said that they want to decide on an opponent this week.

Of course a candidate is this years champion Giorgio Petrosyan, but Tanigawa says that after visiting a doctor for a detailed check after returning home, it became clear that Petrosyan has a bone fracture in his right hand.

Other candidates are Andy Souwer, Buakaw Por.Pramuk, and Yoshihiro Sato. Tanigawa himself, not surprisingly, wants Sato as Masato’s opponent.

They want to make an announcement on Thursday or Friday this week.

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Korean Fighters Alliance! For The Future Of Korean MMA

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There is almost nowhere to compete in MMA in Korea right now. SpiritMC is gone and FMC doesn’t seem like it will continue. There are events outside of Korea but only a few fighters will get a shot there. Young fighters can’t get any experience so fewer pursue MMA these days.

Because of this, the Korean Fighters Alliance (KFA), which is just a group of fighters from different gyms training together once a week to trade training methods and gain experience, has been started.

A few of the fighters are former SpiritMC Welterweight champion Ui Cheol Nam, who is supposed to make his Strikeforce debut on the Fedor vs. Rogers card, undefeated Heavyweight prospect Hae Joon Yang, Seung Bae Whi, and SENGOKU X participant Jae Sun Lee.

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#4: Fighters Gathered

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Doping Tests Cost 370000 YEN! 30000 For Organizations Affiliated With The JOC

The managing director of the Japan Muay Thai Federation, which is one of the organizations under the new Japan Martial Arts Federation, talked about this new federation.

One thing he said is that doping tests per person cost 370,000 YEN (~4,000 USD). However, organizations affiliated with the Japan Olympic Committee only have to pay 30,000 YEN.

It would be really hard for Japanese MMA organizations to pay that amount of money if they wanted to do doping tests. How much does it cost in the U.S.?

Anyway, this news has brought up a discussion about the pro organizations affiliated with the JMAF (WVR, Shooto, Pancrase, and ZST). I don’t know if the 30,000 YEN goes for pro organizations as well but this could be one of the reasons that the pro organizations affiliated themselves with the federation.

Source: ZAKZAK

Pancrase 2009 Changing Tour 10.25! Kawamura Vs. Shoji Set

Pancrase held their sixth Changing Tour card of the year this past Sunday in a sold out Differ Ariake in Tokyo (1,800).

Undefeated Lightweight ISAO was in his first fight that didn’t end with him winning by KO/TKO as he defeated Hiroki “AB” Aoki due to disqualification after a groin strike only 50 seconds into the first round.

The fighter who will surely be SRC’s poster boy once they start their Bantamweight division, Seiya Kawahara, defeated Ryota Sasaki by unanimous decision after 2 rounds.

Judoka with power, Shunsuke Inoue of Yoshida Dojo, took his third victory in 3 months when he stopped Kazuhiro Hamanaka of Sakuraba’s Laughter7 gym by punches in the first round.

Inoue participated in the DEEP Megaton GP last year where he lost in the final by split decision. He has now dropped to Light Heavyweight and has after this victory been announced to face champion Ryo Kawamura in a title fight at Pancrase’s final Changing Tour card in December. Look for Inoue to enter SRC in the future if he keeps winning.

Bantamweight King Of Pancrase Manabu Inoue took another big victory since dropping down to Bantamweight when he defeated the legendary Masahiro Oishi by unanimous decision after three rounds. Inoue defeated Kawahara for the title and is also someone who should be in a possible Bantamweight GP.

In the main event of the evening, Yuki Kondo drew with the Pink Typhoon Yuji Hisamatsu. Kondo should win fights like this but it looks like his fighting age is even higher than expected.