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 *

Like I posted on the Sherdog Forum, that U-SPIRITS event that featured Hiromitsu Kanehara's retirement fight and ceremony is a fixed shoot style pro-wrestling event, not a MMA event despite Sherdog having it up as such.

It's a pretty bad event too. Considering most of the fighters on the card have fought in MMA fights before, one would've expected the matches to be a lot better than they actually were and one would've expected them to have added a sense of reality feel to the fights, yet they it made it pretty obvious it was all a fixed event.

Nagai vs. ***e, Takayama vs. Sato and Suzuki vs. Nijman were pretty horrible even by pro-wrestling standards.

If given the chance, don't waste your time watching this event.

If anything, just skip to Kanehara vs. Kondo which was good compared to the rest.

JMMA poster updates:

ZST 35:


DEEP TOYAMA IMPACT:


Sakaguchi Dojo/Pancrase 4/21:



DEEP 62 IMPACT:


DEEP OSAKA IMPACT:

* Edited at 03.30.2013, 12:47 PM ET *

JMMA Schedule Update:

Shooto/Innovation/KAKUMEI Kickboxing "BORDER - Season 5 - 'The First'" - 4/7
ZST/SWAT! - 4/7
ZST 35 - 4/7
DEEP "DEEP TOYAMA IMPACT" - 4/14
Sakaguchi Dojo/Pancrase - 4/21
Shooto "SHOOTO GIG TOKYO Vol. 14" - 4/21
THE OUTSIDER 25 - 4/21
DEEP "DEEP 62 IMPACT" - 4/26
DEEP "DEEP OSAKA IMPACT 2013" - 4/28
GRACHAN 9 - 4/29
Pancrase "PANCRASE 247" - 5/19
Shooto "SHOOTING DISCO 21" - 6/8
RINGS/THE OUTSIDER - 6/9
VTJ 2nd - 6/22
Pancrase "PANCRASE 248" - 6/30

Shooto, 6/8/2013 
"SHOOTING DISCO 21" 
Shinjuku FACE 
Tokyo, Japan 

Shooto Rookie 2013 Round of 32: Ryosuke Kano vs. Ryo Okada (bantamweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Shooto Rookie 2013 Second Round: Akira Torigoshi vs. Takashi Soya (flyweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Shooto Rookie 2013 Round of 32: HIRO (Hiroyuki Takahashi) vs. Ken Asuka (strawweight) (2 rounds x 5 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWHUofBP_r0

^ Dongbar's fight from this month.

Peterson Chacal (Peterson Almeida Viela) failed to make weight on his 3 attempts. First he weighed in at 86.1 kg, then on his second chance he weighed in at 85.5 kg and then on his third attempt and last one he weighed in at 85.3 kg. 

The HEAT NEW AGE fights are usually fights for rookies, that's why they're at a catch weight that both fighters can make and are 2 rounds x 4 minutes instead of the standard 2 rounds x 5 minutes.

HEAT 26, 3/31/2013 
Nagoya International Conference Hall 
Nagoya, Japan 

HEAT Welterweight Title - 5 rounds x 5 minutes: 
Strasser Kiichi (Kiichi Kunimoto) - 77.1 kg 
Fumitoshi Ishikawa - 77.0 kg 

Catch weight - 3 rounds x 5 minutes:
Yuki Niimura - 83.8 kg 
Peterson Chacal (Peterson Almeida Viela) - 85.3 kg 

Bantamweight - 3 rounds x 5 minutes:
Kazuma Sone - 61.0 kg 
Kenta Sakuma - 61.6 kg 

Middleweight - 3 rounds x 5 minutes:
Hisaki Kato - 84.2 kg 
Tsukawa Kawaoka - 83.4 kg 

Flyweight - 3 rounds x 5 minutes:
Takeshi Kasugai - 56.7 kg 
Yuta Horikawa - 56.9 kg 

HEAT NEW AGE Catch weight - 2 rounds x 4 minutes:
Go (Go Yamazaki) - 60.2 kg 
Naoki Kawai - 60.0 kg 

HEAT NEW AGE Catch weight - 2 rounds x 4 minutes:
Yusaku (Yusaku Hayashi) - 62.7 kg 
Doteki Ogawa - 62.5 kg

Only 7 fights?

Nvm

* Edited at 03.30.2013, 11:10 PM ET *

15 fight in total, but the other 8 are kickboxing fights though.

* Edited at 03.30.2013, 11:11 PM ET *

Iminari's band is going to have a show called DEEP presents DEEP Loud Impact, featuring Masakazu Imanari and DEEP MACS HEADBANGERS! Right now it looks like just a rock show, but I don't read Japanese so it might be a small MMA event with the band playing at the intermission (kind of like Affliction with Megadeth).

Here is a promo video:


and a promo poster:

Shooto Pacific Rim featherweight champion Yusuke Yachi has signed with PXC from Guam and Philippines. He's scheduled to make his PXC debut against Mark Striegl in a first round fight of the PXC featherweight tournament. 

The fight takes place at PXC 37 on May 18 in the Philippines.

For those wondering, it's been a slow couple of days in the JMMA organizations, that's why I haven't posted anything in recent days.

I fully expect a lot of news to appear soon since there's a lot of JMMA events taking place this month.

* Edited at 04.01.2013, 9:20 PM ET *

Due to visa issues, Konstantin Kireev won't be able to fight in Japan, so the ZST 35 main event sees another change. Naoyuki Kotani will now be facing Korean Jung Min Kang in the main event.



ZST 35, 4/7/2013 
Differ Ariake 
Tokyo, Japan 

RINGS: Naoyuki Kotani vs. Jung Min Kang (lightweight; 3 rounds x 5 minutes) 
RINGS: Masayuki Hamagishi vs. Ike Chris (welterweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
RINGS: NAKADAI (Sen Nakadai) vs. Go Hishinuma (welterweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
RINGS: Yutaka Shimamura vs. Tomomitsu Hinuma (featherweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
RINGS: Toshihiro Shimizu vs. Atsushi Kato (featherweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
RINGS: Tetsuya Fusano vs. Takumi Murata (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Masayuki Okude vs. Shinichi Taira (lightweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Hiroyuki Ota vs. Ryota Sakuma (lightweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shooto Watanabe vs. Takao Ueda (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Shin Takenaka vs. Yusuke Uehara (flyweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Toru Sakakibara vs. Keisuke Tamaru (flyweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Yuki Ito vs. Satoru Takahashi (welterweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 

Pancrase has released the full Sakaguchi Dojo/Pancrase April 21 card. The card will be devided in a MMA portion and in a pro-wrestling portion. The previously announced fight Ryo Kawamura vs. Kosei Kubota has been changed to a pro-wrestling match. The pro-wrestling portion will also have Yukio Sakaguchi & Kyoko Kimura vs. Hikaru Sato & NOSAWA Rongai, ISAO & Mitsuhisa Sunabe who's competing in both portions of the card vs. Yutaka Kobayashi & Kotaro Nasu and Queen Yanbaru Na which is another character played by Kyoko Kimura & Mil Mongoose vs. Madoka & Michael Nakazawa. Here's the MMA portion of the card:



Sakaguchi Dojo/Pancrase, 4/21/2013 
Okinawa Gymnasium 
Okinawa, Japan 

Mitsuhisa Sunabe vs. Shingo Yakul (flyweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Tatsuya So vs. Yusuke Tamashiro (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Chris MAN (Keigo Hirayama) vs. Tomoyoshi Ishikake (lightweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Takatoshi Matsumoto vs. BG (featherweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Penny Shimizu (Kai Shimizu) vs. Yuta Yamashiro (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 
Kikuyo Ishikawa vs. MIYOKO (Miyoko Kusaka) (strawweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes) 

*BG's real name is still unknown.

Rumor has it Pancrase will be switching to a cage.

ZST has finally released the fight order for the SWAT! April 7 event at Differ Ariake on Tokyo, Japan.

SWAT!, 4/7/2013
Differ Ariake
Tokyo, Japan

SWAT! HIGH SCHOOL WARS: Kazuki Date vs. Kuya Ito (featherweight; 2 rounds x 3 minutes)
SWAT! HIGH SCHOOL WARS: Satoru Date vs. Hirofuyu Sekiguchi (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 3 minutes)
Takeshi Kashiwazaki vs. Yochi Kono (featherweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Seio Yamada vs. Ken Uehara (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Seiichiro Ito vs. Akinori Fujisawa (flyweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Naofumi Sekine vs. Shoichi Kudo (featherweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Koji Suzuki vs. Satoshi Minaba (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Tomoya Akita vs. Kazuki Kawanishi (lightweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Yuki Kawabata vs. Koichi Watanabe (flyweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)
Kei Tanigawa vs. Toru Washiyama (bantamweight; 2 rounds x 5 minutes)

DEEP middleweight titleholder Kazuhiro Nakamura is running an event at the ***uyama Industry Exchange Center in ***uyama, Japan on June 30. Not many details of the event available yet beside the venue and ticket prices.

* Edited at 04.03.2013, 10:55 AM ET *

Aoki's dropping to featherweight after the Boku fight for the ONE FC lightweight title.

Good move for Aoki, bad move for ONE FC, because there's a big chance he beats Boku, wins the lightweight title and then has to vacate it due to moving down the featherweight.

If Kawajiri can make featherweight, I don't see how Aoki can't.

Aoki's a little taller than Kawajiri and Kawajiri has more muscle than Aoki.

I like Aoki's chances at featherweight better than at lightweight, although both divisions are stacked everywhere.

I think a move to America would be better for both guys at featherweight at this point although I'd say Kawajiri's wrestling is more suited for American MMA at this point than Aoki's judo and BJJ grappling.

Aoki should have been at FW a long time ago. He keeps saying he wants to fight in the UFC and even stopped wearing his signature leggings in order to prepare for such a move. Maybe this is just another step.

Agreed that Kawajiri's style would translate much better to modern Western MMA. Still, his showing against Gil Melendez was either his worst or Gil's best. 

145 might be better for him. 

Wow, don't see lot of 145'ers who can give Aoki trouble outside Bellator and the UFC. Kawajiri's style translates better b/c he has arguably the best top control in MMA, whereas Aoki is sometimes content to pull guard and work of his back and we know how that's scored sometimes. The way Kawajiri can keep guys down, control them and slowly transition is a thing of beauty. Just wish he was more active.

Aoki gonna ball hard at FW, would like to see him and Kawajiri rematch down the road

The only reasonable guys available for Aoki to fight at 145 outside of Bellator and the UFC are Takaya, Kawajiri II, Omigawa, Miyata, Georgi and Doo Ho Choi.

Aoki at 145 is pretty interesting. I'm always excited for one of his fights, 145, 155, 170, i don't care. The Kawajiri rematch could be really good, since the first fight didnt show as much as it could have.