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As expected, the announced fights of today’s announcement were the GP pairings, a Lightweight title fight between Satoru Kitaoka and Mizuto Hirota, and a fight to decide the first title challenger for Jorge Santiago between Kazuo Misaki and Kazuhiro Nakamura.
Update: The four Bantamweight fighters of the SENGOKU Gold Rush Project will be introduced on Sunday on the SENGOKUG! program.
Update #2: SENGOKU X will take place on September 23rd in the Saitama Community Arena (~3000) and SENGOKU XI on November 7th in the Ryogoku Kokugikan.
Update #3: The FW GP Reserve fight will be between a fighter who fought in the GP and one who didn’t participate. Also planned to participate on the SENGOKU IX card are Sanae Kikuta, Eiji Mitsuoka, and Kazuyuki Fujita.
Update #4: Lightweight and Welterweight title fights are planned to take place at SENGOKU NO RAN 2010.
Update #5: Kitaoka was quite cocky at the SENGOKU IX press conference, saying that while Hirota is strong in Cage Force, he is strong in a dimension that is below his (Kitaoka’s) dimension. Kitaoka went on to say: “It will be an easy to understand fight”. He also said that he thinks that Yokota is stronger than Hirota.
Update #6: 11 fights are expected to take place at SENGOKU IX. More announcements will be made in early June.
SENGOKU IX
Date: August 2nd, 2009
Place: Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan
SENGOKU Lightweight Title Fight (5×5):
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Mizuto Hirota
SENGOKU Featherweight GP Final (Possibly 5×5):
Hioki/Kanehara vs. Omigawa/Sandro
SENGOKU Featherweight GP Semifinals:
Hatsu Hioki vs. Masanori Kanehara
Michihiro Omigawa vs. Marlon Sandro
SENGOKU Middleweight Title Challenger Fight:
Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Kazuo Misaki
Possible Fights:
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Blagoi Ivanov
Possible Participants:
Alexandre Pequeno, King Mo, Hidehiko Yoshida, James Thompson, Sanae Kikuta, Eiji Mitsuoka
05-22-2009, 01:40 PM
