New Year’s Eve Lineups Finalized for Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye, Deep ‘Dream Impact’ in Japan Heavyweights Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and Satoshi Ishii, lightweights Satoru Kitaoka and Yoshiyuki Yoshida will headline Japanese MMA’s...

Imagining an MMA Hall of Fame: Borderline Candidates, Part 2 In this final installment of a five-part series, Sherdog.com contributor Todd Martin puts under the microscope the second group of fighters who...

MMA At 20: Japan’s Splintered Origins When it comes to reviewing the last 20 years of history on the Japanese MMA scene, there is one name predominantly involved from start to...

Phil Baroni Faces Rodrigo Ribeiro at One FC 5 in Philippines Former UFC talent Phil Baroni will return to action on Aug. 31, as “The New York Bad Ass” squares off with Jungle Fight vet Rodrigo Ribeiro...

Lightweight King Mizuto Hirota Defends Crown Against Seiichi Ikemoto at Deep 57 Deep lightweight champion Mizuto Hirota successfully defended his title against Dream veteran Seiichi Ikemoto in the main event of Deep 57...

‘Bones’ in 2011 and MMA’s All-Time Greatest Years When an unconscious Lyoto Machida dropped to the canvas at UFC 140 on Dec. 10 in Toronto, it marked the end of a spectacular year for UFC light heavyweight champion...

Fedor-Ishii Confirmed for Dream NYE Event in Saitama Fedor Emelianenko will make his return to the Land of the Rising Sun on New Year’s Eve.

Aoki, Kawajiri Earn Taps at Dream 17; Cabral Chokes Sakuraba SAITAMA, Japan -- Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki racked up another submission finish in the main event of Dream 17 on Saturday at the Saitama Super Arena, this time over former WEC lightweight champion...

10-Bout Lineup Set for Dream 17; Aoki-McCullough Headlines Shinya Aoki will be back in the headlining slot for the first time in 14 months this Saturday when the spindly submission artist tangles with “Razor” Rob McCullough in the main event of...

Hirota Takes Kikuno’s Crown; Matsumoto Retires at Deep 55 TOKYO -- Mizuto Hirota is back.

In his first bout since suffering a gruesome arm break at the hands of Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki 20 months ago in 2009's K-1 Dynamite, the former Sengoku Raiden Championship and Cage Force lightweight champion rebounded with a...