Nightmare Of Battle

Battle Genesis vol.10! Yamamoto Vs. Krat

N.O.B. — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:12:07 +0000

The RINGS Battle Genesis series that returned with vol.9 earlier this year will hold the vol.10 event on May 27th. Click here to check out the card. Ryosuke Tanuma and Toshihiro “Kamen Rider Hiro” Shimizu will also participate on the card.

Vitali Krat is a typical RINGS Russian discovery and fought at the RINGS Reincarnation event where he got a solid KO win against Hisato Izawa.

Participant Koji Mori’s last fight:

Ishiwatari Returns! Versus KID’s Student

N.O.B. — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:59:49 +0000

Exciting Bantamweight King Of Pancrase Shintaro Ishiwatari will return at the June 2nd Pancrase event to take on KRAZY BEE’s Nobutaka Hiyoshi who hasn’t fough in MMA since 2008. Hiyoshi is a hard puncher with many amateur Boxing fight under his belt. He is 2-1 in MMA (all fights in Cage Force) with both victories having come via (T)KO.

Also announced for the card, DEEP Future King Tournament 2011 winner Yuki Baba will face Masaomi Saito.

Previously announced fights for the card include the big fight between Ryo Kawamura and Shungo Oyama which was reported about here.

Road FC 008! The Semifinals

N.O.B. — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:12:00 +0000

New fights have been announced for the June 16th Road FC 008. FINAL 4 – Bitter Rivals & Young Guns 4 event(s) in Wonju, South Korea.

The semifinals combination of the Bantamweight tournament have been announced. Kyung Ho Kang will take on Jae Hoon Moon and Andrew Leone will face Min Jung Song. The final takes place on June 16th as well.

Denis Kang returns to take on Road FC Middleweight tournament runner-up Hae Suk Son in a Middleweight fight.

Six fights have been announced for the Young Guns 4 event as well.

Previous DREAM, RINGS, and Road FC participant Young Sam Jung will face someone named Francisco.

Eun Soo Kim who lost to Tommy Kang, a relative of Denis Kang, in the last event in an exciting fight will face Hee Seung Kim.

Nae Cheol Kim will battle Il Chul Park.

In a very interesting fight One FC participant who is now 3-0 in Road FC, Seok Mo Kim, will take on the recently turned 21 year old Jun Hee Moon whose only losses are to Ryo Chonan and Andrews Nakahara.

Yong Jae Lee will face Hwi Kyu Kim.

And the first fight of the evening is between Won Ki Kim and Sung Jin Hong.

King Of Pancrase Vs. King Of Road! Champions Clash

N.O.B. — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:06:58 +0000

Fights have been announced for the June 2nd Pancrase event and the main event is something special as MIddleweight King Of Pancrase Ryo Kawamura will defend his title against Road FC Middleweight champion, the legendary Shungo Oyama.

An Interim Featherweight King Of Pancrase fight between champion Takumi (Nakayama) and the undefeated challenger Jon Shores.

A Featherweight fight between Shooto fighter Guy Delumeau and Masakazu Takafuji was also announced.

Ikkei (Nagamura) who took on Ryo Kawamura in the Middleweight title fight will battle Yuji Hisamatsu.

The much improved Yuki Yasunaga will look to take his 7th in a row against Goro Kobayashi in a Super Flyweight fight and Seiji Ozuka will take on Yuki Uejima in another Super Flyweight fight.

K-1 Rising 2012! World MAX FINAL 16

N.O.B. — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:09:12 +0000

The first fights for the K-1 RISING 2012 in MADRID event on May 27th have been announced.

K-1 World MAX 2012 FINAL 16

Mike Zambidis vs. Chahid Oulad El Hadj
Andy Souwer vs. Abraham Roqueñi
Artur Kyshenko vs. Su Hwan Lee
Xu Yan vs. Yasuhiro Kido
Gago Drago vs. Andy Ristie
Yuji Nashiro vs. Reece McAllister
Harut Grigorian vs. Murthel Groenhart
Chain Superpro Samui vs. Chris Ngimbi

Superfights

Mosab Amrani vs. Zeben Diaz

HEAT 23! Strasser Kiichi Vs. Gyu Myung Lee

N.O.B. — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:19:32 +0000

A HEAT MMA rules fight has been added to the June 23rd HEAT 23 event.

Pancrase Welterweight ranker and recent title challenger Strasser Kiichi will take on undefeated Korean prospect Gyu Myung Lee who is 2-0 in HEAT and 3-0 overall in MMA.

Krush.18! Ryuji Kajiwara X HIROYA

N.O.B. — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:06:42 +0000

Road FC 008! FINAL 4 – Bitter Rivals

N.O.B. — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:31:50 +0000

Road FC 008. FINAL 4 – Bitter Rivals & Young Guns 4 will take place on June 16th at Chiak Gymnasium in Wonju, South Korea. The finals of the Bantamweight tournament with Kyung Ho Kang, Andrew Leone, Jae Hoon Moon, and Min Jung Song. Hopefully Kang gets a rematch against Leone after the decision in the quarterfinals (which got Kang another shot at advancing to the FINAL 4).

K-1 Rising 2012! Badr Hari Returns

N.O.B. — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:28:45 +0000

Superstar Badr Hari will fight at the K-1 RISING 2012 ~ in MADRID event on May 27th in Spain. Hari last fought and beat Gokhan Saki at an It’s Showtime event in January of this year. That was to be his last Kickboxing bout before converting to Boxing. However now it’s been announced that he will participate in K-1 2012 and his aim is to become the 2012 champion.

K-1 Heavyweight Participating Fighters:

Badr Hari (Morocco)
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (Croatia)
Daniel Ghita (Romania)
Anderson “Braddock” Silva (Brazil)
Paul Slowinski (Australia)
Rico Verhoeven (Netherlands)
Loren Javier Jorge (Spain)
Sergii Lashchenko (Ukraine)

K-1 WORLD MAX Participating Fighters:

Andy Souwer (Holland)
Mike Zambidis (Greece)
Drago (Armenia)
Artur Kyshenko (Ukraine)
Yasuhiro Kido (Japan)
Yuji Nashiro (Japan)
Su Hwan Lee (Korea)
Abraham Roqueni (Spain)
Chahid (Morocco)
Longern Superpro Samui (Thai)
Harut Grigorian (Belgium)
Chris Ngimbi (Congo)

World Featherweight Title Fight! Okazaki Vs. Ogikubo

N.O.B. — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:07:05 +0000

The May 18th Shooto event is shaping up.

A Shooto Featherweight World Title Fight between champion Koetsu Okazaki and challenger Hiromasa Ogikubo. It will be Okazaki’s first fight in over a year.

Also on the card, the 77kg fight between KTaro Nakamura and veteran Yuki Sasaki.

Kuniyoshi Hironaka will participate on the card.