FEG Announces Three More for Dynamite!!
At a press conference Tuesday at the Ana Tokyo Hotel in Tokyo,
Japan, K-1 and HERO'S parent company Fight Entertainment Group
revealed another three fights for the Dec. 31 K-1 Premium 2007
Dynamite!! card the Kyocera Dome in Osaka.
FEG president Sadaru Tanigawa announced that the exchange of talent between FEG and the brass behind the other Dec. 31 offering, Yarennoka!, would continue, as Norwegian standout Joachim Hansen (Pictures) would return to the HERO'S ring to take on Sydney Games olympian Kazuyuki Miyata (Pictures) in a 154-pound contest.
Hansen, who is coming off of a majority decision loss to Eiji Mitsuoka (Pictures) in Shooto this past November, was originally announced to participate on the Yarennoka! card at the Saitama Super Arena on New Year's Eve. However, with FEG having lent two-time HERO'S tournament champion Gesias "JZ" Calvancanti to the Yarennoka! cause, they have now acquired the services of the 28-year-old Norwegian for Dec. 31.
Miyata last saw action in September, when he quickly submitted overmatched Englishman Harvey Harra (Pictures) at the HERO'S tournament finale in Yokohama.
Also announced for the card, Melvin Manhoef (Pictures) takes on former boxing convert Yosuke Nishijima (Pictures) at 187 pounds, while Ikuhisa Minowa (Pictures) continues his open-weight conquest against Wagner da Conceicao Martins (Pictures), more familiarly known to fans as Zuluzinho.
Manhoef notched another knockout in his last duty in September, sparking Chute Boxe upstart Fabio Silva (Pictures) with punches in a square 60 seconds. The former cruiserweight boxer Nishijima has yet to find a victory in MMA, with his last loss in October 2006 to Phil Baroni (Pictures) running his record to 0-4.
Minowa was defeated in his last assignment, being punched out by former Olympic silver medal judoka Min Soo Kim (Pictures) in Seoul, South Korea. Meanwhile, Zuluzinho found victory in last action, choking out Russian Vladimir Kuchenko on bodogFight's card in Moscow late last month.
The Hansen-Miyata and and Zuluzinho-Minowa fights will both be contested under three five-minute rounds, while the Manhoef-Nishijima bout will take place with a ten-minute opening round, and a five-minute second round, with a potential five-minute extension round if necessary.
FEG president Sadaru Tanigawa announced that the exchange of talent between FEG and the brass behind the other Dec. 31 offering, Yarennoka!, would continue, as Norwegian standout Joachim Hansen (Pictures) would return to the HERO'S ring to take on Sydney Games olympian Kazuyuki Miyata (Pictures) in a 154-pound contest.
Hansen, who is coming off of a majority decision loss to Eiji Mitsuoka (Pictures) in Shooto this past November, was originally announced to participate on the Yarennoka! card at the Saitama Super Arena on New Year's Eve. However, with FEG having lent two-time HERO'S tournament champion Gesias "JZ" Calvancanti to the Yarennoka! cause, they have now acquired the services of the 28-year-old Norwegian for Dec. 31.
Miyata last saw action in September, when he quickly submitted overmatched Englishman Harvey Harra (Pictures) at the HERO'S tournament finale in Yokohama.
Also announced for the card, Melvin Manhoef (Pictures) takes on former boxing convert Yosuke Nishijima (Pictures) at 187 pounds, while Ikuhisa Minowa (Pictures) continues his open-weight conquest against Wagner da Conceicao Martins (Pictures), more familiarly known to fans as Zuluzinho.
Manhoef notched another knockout in his last duty in September, sparking Chute Boxe upstart Fabio Silva (Pictures) with punches in a square 60 seconds. The former cruiserweight boxer Nishijima has yet to find a victory in MMA, with his last loss in October 2006 to Phil Baroni (Pictures) running his record to 0-4.
Minowa was defeated in his last assignment, being punched out by former Olympic silver medal judoka Min Soo Kim (Pictures) in Seoul, South Korea. Meanwhile, Zuluzinho found victory in last action, choking out Russian Vladimir Kuchenko on bodogFight's card in Moscow late last month.
The Hansen-Miyata and and Zuluzinho-Minowa fights will both be contested under three five-minute rounds, while the Manhoef-Nishijima bout will take place with a ten-minute opening round, and a five-minute second round, with a potential five-minute extension round if necessary.
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