In a year during which the featherweight division has played a pivotal role, perhaps it is fitting that the division's hottest prospect will close out 2009 as its top-ranked competitor.
At WEC 44, Jose Aldo took his game to yet another level in his fourth fight of the year. The native of Manaus ... Read More
TOKYO -- Rambaa “M-16” Somdet was crowned Shooto's first 115-pound world champion Monday in the main event of Shooto “Revolutionary Exchanges 3” at JCB Hall. ... Read More
TOKYO -- Former Pride Fighting Championships lightweight titleholder Takanori Gomi battled through five rounds of ferocious striking against Tony Hervey and won a unanimous decision ... Read More
The Dream promotion crowned new lightweight and featherweight champions this week, capping an Oct. 6 fight card from Yokohama that drew passionate crowd response and encouraging television ratings. ... Read More
Friday at Japan's Mecca of fightsport, Korakuen Hall, Shooto's afroed ace continued his ascent in the Shoot Boxing ring.
The fourth edition of Shoot Boxing's Bushido series witnessed Mamoru Yamaguchi taking a three-round unanimous decision over Masahiro Fujimoto. The perennially elite MMA flyweight used clean punching and defense -- as well as a one-arm shoulder throw for a Shoot point in the second round -- to earn scores of 30-28 and 29-28 from the judges. The win was Yamaguchi's fourth appearance in the promotion, all within the last seven months, and pushed his Shoot Boxing mark to 3-1.
An offshoot from the same combat sports family tree as Shooto, Shoot Boxing promotes "standing vale tudo" events that feature the full complement of punches, kicks, elbows and knees in addition to throws and standing submissions. ... Read More
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