TAPOLOGY: JMMA THREAD (Frequently Updated!)

Gregory gave me the heads up to start a thread solely based on JMMA. So here it is. I'll mainly be focusing on everything JMMA oriented, so I'll continuously post cards, updates, results, info and more. Results will have their own separate threads. Enjoy your JMMA!

* Edited at 03.28.2013, 10:30 PM ET *

U mad bro? Dong absorbed Hoef's power with his Dongbar. He hits like a truck now.

The Dong took some beatings early on but now he is coming on hard

* Edited at 03.25.2013, 7:24 PM ET *

Mu Bae Choi may have the ugliest mug in MMA.

*Insert all Asians have the same face, how can you tell them apart joke.*

Just saying.

* Edited at 03.25.2013, 9:26 PM ET *

A slight change to the JEWELS "23rd RING" card as Mizuki Inoue was originally schedueled to face Mi Jeon Chan, but Chan was forced to pull out of the fight due to an injury, Mizuki will now step in to face Jung-Seo (Sherdog Fight Finder) as a replacement fight.

 
JEWELS, 3/30/2013 
"23rd RING" 
Shin-Kiba 1st RING 
Tokyo, Japan 

Mizuki Inoue vs. Jung-Seo (strawweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shizuka Sugiyama vs. Sung Eun Kim (bantamweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Mina Kurobe vs. Tomo Maesawa (featherweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Sugi Rock vs. Celine (atomweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Yasuko Mogi vs. Takumi Umehara (flyweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Mika Nagano vs. Emi Tomimatsu (lightweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes)

* Edited at 03.26.2013, 2:44 AM ET *

At least Inoue is still fighting, she's one of the top WJMMA prospects right now.

JEWELS: 23rd Ring and HEAT 26 Updated today. More cards to be updated this week. Hopefully catch up on all of this stuff. 

KID Yamamoto's sister Seiko won the ADCC Asia Trials this weekend. Apparently she's been training at KRAZY BEE so I hope this is a sign she'll be doing MMA soon. She's competed in the Olympics so that shows how good she is.

That's a pic of the winners. I don't recognize the guy from the far right but from left to right it's Animal Anzai, Hideki "Shrek" Sekine, Yuta "Uruka" Sasaki, Sotaro Yamada and Seiko Yamamoto.

* Edited at 03.27.2013, 12:53 AM ET *

http://www.tapology.com/forum/fighters/dong-hyun-kim-stun-gun/438033-Dong_Hyun_Kim__Right_now__ADCC_is_more_important_t?page=1#post-439649

That's Yukiyasu Ozawa.

* Edited at 03.27.2013, 12:59 AM ET *

This is awkward...

I'm a fan of Hadairo but it's good to see someone else qualify in that weight besides him for a change. Granted he always entertains (biting Ryan Hall especially).

Anzai was in last year's ADCC. I remember Lagarto having a full rear naked on him a couple times but the ****** wouldn't tap.

Yamada is a beast, especially physically. I've seen footage of him guillotining Ryan Hall. That's pretty impressive.

Haven't actually seen footage of Shrek grappling (there's some on YT) but from time to time I see results of him winning tournaments. He's physically a weird guy. Really ripped and just thick. In that pic you can see how thick his forearm and feet are.

Beast of a man.

* Edited at 03.27.2013, 1:11 AM ET *

4/7 Zst: SWAT! card entered!!!

More JMMA to come soon.

Updated SHOOTO GIG TOKYO Vol. 14 card. Kota Onojima was originally scheduled to take on Jungle Ito (Kazuhiro Ito), but that fight has been scrapped and not Onojima will be facing Shooto Pacific Rim Bantamweight titleholder Uruka Sasaki (Yuta Sasaki) in a non-title fight.

Shooto, 4/21/2013 
"SHOOTO GIG TOKYO Vol. 14"
Shinjuku FACE 
Tokyo, Japan 

Uruka Sasaki (Yuta Sasaki) vs. Kota Onojima (bantamweight) (3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Akitoshi Tamura vs. Yoshifumi Nakamura (featherweight) (3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Nobu Watanabe (Akinobu Watanabe) vs. Rambo Kosuke (Kosuke Suzuki) (flyweight) (3 rounds x 5 minutes)
Yusei Shimokawa vs. Jun Nabeshima (strawweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Yasutaka Ishigami vs. Hayato Sato (flyweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Keita Ishibashi vs. Takashi Maeda (Takafumi Maeda) (bantamweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Yuya Onodera vs. Yoshinori Takahashi (lightweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Tomoaki Ota vs. Takahito "Pinky" Tomozawa (2 rounds x 5 minutes) (strawweight)

Grachan 9 uploaded. More to come soon!!!

The reason Kota Onojima vs. Jungle Ito (Kazuhiro Ito) was scrapped was because Ito suffered an injury.

Not exactly MMA news, but for those of you who watched DREAM, the DREAM featherweight titleholder Hiroyuki Takaya is participating in the upcoming Shoot Boxing event on April 20 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Takaya will be opposing Hiroki Shishido in a fight where Shishido will be the favorite and will probably beat Takaya to make his kickboxing record 0-3, but I guess that's a way for him to keep himself active.

* Edited at 03.29.2013, 1:09 AM ET *

What's Kawajiri been up to? I want to see him make another go in the U.S. at 145 before he calls it quits. He going to be fighting with ONE?

From the most recent Pancrase, looks like it was a great card. I definitely need to download it

@skelliher Kawajiri's been away since the Omigawa fight, probably waiting for a DREAM resurrection.

Seriously though, he said he wanted to become the DREAM, Bellator and ONE FC featherweight titleholder this year which was one of his goals, but he hasn't really popped up anywhere.

He Tweeted @CRUSHER_MMA that he'll be attending the April 21st THE OUTSIDER event to help some of the fighters train and prepare for their fights since he's not doing anything at the moment.

He hasn't retired or anything, I think he just hasn't been offered any reasonable fights, I don't know the details exactly though.

* Edited at 03.29.2013, 10:54 AM ET *

Shishido most likely cruises through Takaya. He had a pretty entertaining fight with JZ last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jVpAScDdZg

The real names of Tank, Tadashi Samurai and TOMA are still unknown, Sherdog, nor FIGHTS SPIRAL have them listed. 



Shooto/Innovation/KAKUMEI Kickboxing, 4/7/2013 
"BORDER - Season 5 - The First" 
Kumin Center Hirano 
Osaka, Japan 

Kentaro Watanabe vs. Tobizaro No. 2 (Yosuke Saruta) (flyweight) (3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shooto Rookie 2013 First Round: Shun Muramatsu vs. Daisuke Arakawa (lightweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shooto Rookie 2013 Round of 32: Daiju Yuki vs. Kaoru Omori (featherweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shooto Rookie 2013 First Round: Tank vs. Tadashi Samurai (bantamweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Ryuya ***uda vs. Yuki Arimoto (flyweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Mikikajiki (Takamasa Miki) vs. Yuki Kanaumi (bantamweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shoki Omichi vs. TOMA (bantamweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Kenta Konishi vs. Hisho Takeda (lightweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Ryogo Takahashi vs. Shingo Nakazawa (featherweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Onibozu (Tadaaki Yamamoto) vs. Macho the Butterfly (Masayoshi Kato) (strawweight) (3 rounds x 5 minutes) 

Monica Lovato who was originally scheduled to face Emi Fujino was in a car accident and was advised to pull out of her fight. A replacement for Lovato has been found though and Fujino will be opposing Amber Brown. Also some minor changes have been made to some of the Neo Blood Tournament fights, nothing major though. 



Pancrase, 5/19/2013
"PANCRASE 247"
Differ Ariake 
Tokyo, Japan 

King of Pancrase Welterweight Title: Takenori Sato vs. Shingo Suzuki (3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Motonobu Tezuka vs. Taichi Nakajima (bantamweight; 3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shunichi Shimizu vs. Yuki Baba (bantamweight; 3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shinsho Anzai vs. Yuji Hisamatsu (middleweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Rin Nakai vs. Brenda Gonzalez (bantamweight; 3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Emi Fujino vs. Amber Brown (strawweight; 3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Yuki Yasunaga vs. Yusataka Koga (flyweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Masakazu Takafuji vs. Shunpei Ota (featherweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Super Flyweight: Haruaki Nakayama vs. Masatatsu Ueda (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Super Flyweight: Gen Ishida vs. Penny Shimizu (Kai Shimizu) (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Bantamweight Semifinal: CORO vs. Sho Nonaka (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Bantamweight Semifinal: Gaku Suwazono vs. Nobuki Fujii (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Featherweight Semifinal: Satoshi Inaba vs. Daiki Shimizu (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Featherweight Semifinal: Hulk Oshiro (Hiroyuki Oshiro) vs. Kohei Tokeshi (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Lightweight: Genpei Hayashi vs. Ben Buchan (2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Lightweight: Koichiro Takekawa vs. Akihito Hara (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Welterweight: Let's Gota (Gota Yama****a) vs. Tamotsu Kitada (2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Neo Blood Tournament 19th Welterweight: Hirotaka Uehara vs. KAZZ (Toshikazu Suzuki) (2 rounds x 5 minutes)

ZST 34 is one of the best JMMA shows I've seen this year.

Some good fights and good finishes.

These results need to be uploaded to the database so I can add these to my rankings.

* Edited at 03.30.2013, 12:23 AM ET *