Sato Retains Bantamweight Shooto Title at Korakuen Hall
Shoko Sato last night retained his Shooto bantamweight belt in a thrilling back and forth defence against challenger Yo Saito at Korakuen Hall, Tokyo. In…
Demetrious Johnson Officially Joins ONE Championship
October 28, 2018 The most dominant world champion in mixed martial arts history has arrived in ONE Championship. Demetrious Johnson has signed a landmark deal…
One FC Announces Their First Event in Japan On March 31st, 2019
Sorry we only have this information in Japanese. More to come later. ONE CHAMPIONSHIPは２０１９年３月に東京で開催する総合格闘技のライブイベントを公式に発表いたします。 ONE CHAMPIONSHIPは２０１９年に予定している最初の２４のイベントを発表いたします。 東京の記者会見に登場するONE CHAMPIONSHIPのスーパースター …
Eddie Alvarez Reveals Why He Joined ONE Championship
Japanese follows the English Eddie Alvarez Reveals Why He Joined ONE Championship October 18, 2018 Eddie “The Underground King” Alvarez has…
Demetrious Johnson Explain why he joined One FC
Japanese follows the English. Demetrious Johnson is thrilled to have joined the world’s largest martial arts organization. On Monday, 29 October, the American flyweight…
ROAD FC 050 OFFICIAL RESULTS LEE JEONG-YEONG BECOMES NEW FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION
Featherweight Champion Choi Mu-Gyeom had his retirement fight as his fourth title defense against Lee Yeong-Jeong. The two engaged in a very technical striking…
Pancrase 300
Pancrase hit a huge milestone just 2 weeks ago. They hit their 300th event in their numbered series. Pancrase was the first…
ROAD FC 50 Weigh in Results
Featherweight Champion Choi Mu-Gyeom will defend his title for the fourth time against Lee Yeong-Jeong. Choi stated: “I hope to…
ROAD FC ANNOUNCES NEW LIVE BROADCAST DEAL IN THE US WITH DAZN, WORLD’S LARGEST DEDICATED SPORTS STREAMING SERVICE
For release on October 31, 2018 – ROAD Fighting Championship announces a live broadcast partnership in the United States with DAZN to commence with ROAD…
QUINTET – The Buzz in the Grappling World
In the elite fiefdom that is World Team Grappling Championships, QUINTET delivers everything you need. QUINTET, its kachinuki winner stays on grappling gauntlet where team tactics…
Shooto 9.23
Shooto gave a fitting sendoff to Norifumi ‘Kid’ Yamamoto last night in a finish-heavy event at a packed out Korakuen Hall. Following a video tribute…
Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto Passes Away at 41 Years Old
It is with heavy hearts and deep respect that we report to you the death of Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto from cancer. We here at MMA…
Road FC 50: Ready for the TANKS?
ROAD Fighting Championship has announced that ROAD FC 050 will take place on November 3, 2018 for the first time in the city of Daejeon,…
QUINTET.3 Hits Las Vegas!
Las Vegas– The most exciting grappling event of 2018 hits Las Vegas on Friday, October 5, as Kazushi Sakuraba’s QUINTET® promotion makes its US debut….
10.26 SHOOTO GIG TOKYO Vol.26 at Shinjuku Face
Professional Shooto has announced their final card for 10.26 SHOOTO GIG TOKYO Vol.26. This card is comprised of some of their top fighters and will…
ROAD FC 050 ANNOUNCED FOR THE CITY OF DAEJEON FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION CHOI MU-GYEOM TAKES ON LEE JEONG-YEONG
ROAD Fighting Championship announces that ROAD FC 050 will take place on November 3, 2018 for the first time in the city of Daejeon, South…
Deep Impact 85 Results
Yesterday we were LIVE and in person at Deep Impact 85. This card was packed with exciting fights and it did not disappoint. Deep is…
Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto Announces Battle Against Cancer
Yesterday Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto announced on his public Instagram that he is battling cancer. There was no more information put out other than this. We…
One FC Makes A Splash in Tokyo Japan
Yesterday we had the pleasure of attending Once FC’s first Press Conference in Japan. It was a great presentation with 12 panelists that ranged from…
Knock Out Results and photos
Back on August 19th we had the opportunity to see our first event by the promotion Knock Out. They put on a great show. Their…
Ganryujima Moat Fights Tournament 9/17/2018
Wake the kids and phone the neighbors! We just got the announcement of a new Ganryujima Tournament coming to Maihama Arena on September 17, 2018!…
ROAD FC 049 IN PARADISE OFFICIAL WEIGH IN RESULTS
Former ROAD FC Middleweight Champion Lee Eun-Su finally makes his return to the cage after a two year hiatus due to injury. He is known…
KNOCK OUT SUMMER FES.2018 International Broadcast
KNOCK OUT SUMMER FES.2018, broadcast to the world on Sunday, Aug. 19th on NextVR It has been announced that the kickboxing promotion KNOCK OUT will…
Alex Roberts to join the English commentary for KNOCK OUT SUMMER FES 2018
Alex Roberts to join the English commentary for KNOCK OUT SUMMER FES 2018 on Sunday, August 19th As it has already been announced, KNOCK…
Latest Featured Bouts from KNOCK OUT
Tenshin Nasukawa vs Wanchalong PK SENCHAIGYM – Full Fight, KNOCK OUT vol.0 – Dec. 5, 2016 Tenshin Nasukawa vs Amnat Ruenroeng – Full Fight, KNOCK…
KNOCKOUT: English Broadcasting Information
Another great Japanese fight promotion modernizes their approach to broadcasting. KNOCKOUT, which is a Kickboxing promotion here in Japan wants to reach out to the…
Deep Now Broadcasts LIVE on Youtube
Deep for the longest time has resisted change. That is refreshing if you are like us and you love old school MMA. Just put up…
This is Shooto Vol. 2 Results
Last night, Shooto returned to Shibuya where This is Shooto vol. 2 was held. Headlining the event was Tatsuya Ando, who took on Hideto Okada….
One FC: Renzo Gracie talks about his match with Pancrase’s Yuki Kondo
ROAD FC 049 CARD: FORMER ROAD FC CHAMP LEE EUN-SU FACES DEEP CHAMP MIZUNO TATSUYA
ROAD Fighting Championship 049 will take place on August 18, 2018 at the Grand Walkerhill resort complex in Seoul, South Korea. In the main event,…
Shoot 7/15 Review From Commentator Mark Chinnery
*This article was written by Mark Chinnery and used with his permission. Wow, what a night! Controversy, underdog victories, last ditch heroics – damn, even…
Quintet 2 Results and Review
On Monday, June 16th, 2018 we were live at Quintet 2. This is a team survival grappling competition that was started by Kazushi…
Shooto 7/15 Results
Shooto was back in Korakuen Hall on Sunday night in what turned out to be an entertaining evening of fights. In the main event,…
Quintet 2 Pre-Fight Analysis
David Garmo breaks down what to look out for in QUINTET.2, as teams REEBOK (Sakuraba), Tiger Muay Thai, 10th Planet, and VAGABOND are in Tokyo…
QUINTET.2 Team 10th Planet
We want to introduce you to the 1oth Planet Team that will be here in Japan to compete in Quintet 2. Check out each the…
Josh Barnett bids farewell to the UFC
Today we were monitoring all the MMA and JMMA news in the world and we came across some shocking news. Not only does this make…
Eddie Bravo brings 10th Planet to Quintet 2
Scramble – A True East Meets West Brand
We caught up with UK based Matt Benyon, creator of Scramble – martial arts technical and casual wear brand with its roots in jiu-jitsu. Indeed,…
Deep Jewels 20 Review and Results
Last weekend we were at Deep Jewels 20. This is Japan’s premiere all female MMA Promotion. Other promotions have female fighters as well. Pancrase and…
Professional Shooto 5/13/2018
Professional Shooto 5/13/2018 This article is by Mark Chinnery and used with his permission. …
Pancrase 296 Review
Last Sunday we had the honor to be there live at Pancrase 296. It was held at the tremendous Studio Coast in Shin-Kiba. This is…
A Preview for Professional Shooto on May 13th
*This was originally written by Mark Chinnery and used with his permission. Not long to go now for the next installment on the Shooto express…
Quintet 1 Review
Before last night’s Quintet event, another member of the press nervously asked me ‘Do you think this will be a success?’. Wildly unsure, but trying…
Quintet 1 Preview
The new grappling promotion Quintet hosts it’s inaugural event this Wednesday at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan. Recent years have seen the rise in popularity of…
QUINTET 1. Rule Explanation
A quick breakdown of the rule set for QUINTET 1, by Stewart Fulton. LIVE ON UFC FIGHT PASS, April 11, 2018.
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Professional Shooto 3/25 Breakdown
This artical was written by Mark Chinnery and reposted with his permission. Professional Shooto 3.25 is now over & admittedly, the card might not have…
Shooto Korakuen Hall 3/25 Results
This weekend saw a strong Shooto card at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. The main event featured lightweight champion Koshi Matsumoto defending his title against Yuki…
Pancrase 294 Results
Last weekend we attended Pancrase 294. It is on UFC FightPass if you could not catch it live. It was a great show with some…
Pancrase 294 at Studio Coast On March 11th
This weekend Pancrase 294 is live from Studio Coast in Chiba, Japan. This is the new venue that the promotion started to use from the…
Deep Jewels 19 on March 10th
The 2018 MMA season is now in full swing here in Japan. This weekend is packed with exciting cards from both Pancrase and Deep Jewels….
Shooto Gig Tokyo vol. 24
On a busy weekend for MMA in Tokyo, last night Shooto put on one of their smaller shows in Shinjuku Face. This was an entertaining…
Pancrase 293 Results and Review
Pancrase kicked off their 2018 season with a spectacular event and in a new venue as well. Last year on February 3rd, it was brought…
Shooto 1/28 Break Down
This is an article originally written by Mark Chinnery and used with his permission. The first Shooto…
Professional Shooto 1/28/2018
On January 28th of 2018, Professional Shooto kicked off their 2018 MMA even season at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. There were 8 fights on the…
Quintet: The New Promotion by Kazushi Sakuraba and Josh Barnett
New MMA promotions are popping up all the time. Some are just a flash in the pan, while others bring a unique twist to the…
Pancrase 293
Pancrase 293 – NEW venue – watch BJJ matches for free – Flyweight King of Pancrase Senzo Ikeda defends his new belt against Yuya Wakamatsu.
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Shooto on January 28th.
The MMA season is already in full swing and the outlook for JMMA has never looked better. Professional Shooto will be doing their first card…
Ganryujima 9 Enemy Out
On January 3rd, Ganryujima (Moat Fights) kicked off 2018 with a spectacular show. If you do not know what Ganryujima is all about, check out…
Horiguchi Wins Bantamweight GP
By Chris Gunn Twitter: chrisgunn82 Last night Kyoji Horiguchi capped a perfect first year with Rizin by taking the Bantamweight Grand Prix in front of…
RIZIN 2017 WGP
December 29th, 2017, saw the first of two end-of-year fight cards from RIZIN including single matches and the quarter finals of the men’s Bantamweight Grand…
Semi-finals set for Rizin Bantamweight GP
By Chris Gunn Twitter: @chrisgunn82 The first day of Rizin FF’s end of year event featured the second round of the Bantamweight Grand Prix,…
Pancrase to DEEP – DEEP Impact 81
DEEP Impact 81 Guy DeLumeau (22-13-3) stepped up to lightweight to take this fight against Juri Ohara (21-13-2) following a loss in his last DEEP…
Satoru Kitaoka vs Kiichi Kunimoto Announced for Rizin EOY Event
Recently Rizin held a press conference to discuss their End of Year event. MMA Japan has covered all of these events since the promotion started….
Deep Impact 81
Deep is having one last event in Tokyo for the year. We are talking Deep Impact 81 and it looks great. This event will be…
Sakuraba and Josh Barnett announce a new Promotion
Deep Jewels 18 Results
On December 3rd, 2017 Deep Jewels held another event. This time Deep Jewels 18 featured 11 bouts of all female MMA action. As always, Deep…
Pancrase 292 results
By Chris Gunn Twitter @chrisgunn82 Yesterday, the legendary promotion held their last event in Differ Ariake in Tokyo. This event did not disappoint with…
Deep Jewels 18 on December 3, 2017
Deep comes back to us again with another all-female card on their Deep Jewels promotion. This time it is Deep Jewels 18 which will be…
A fond farewell to Seiza’s Julija Stoliarenko & Tabatha Ricci
By Chris Gunn. Twitter: @chrisgunn82 The most recent Seiza event served as graduation for two of it’s most accomplished competitors. After being with the…
Pancrase 291 Results and Review
Yesterday Pancrase put on their 291st event in the numbered series. This took place at Differ Ariake. It is the historical location from where a…
A World of Politics in Martial Arts
In my worldview, I have always thought that the things that restrict human freedom were things that should be ridiculed and brought out into the…
Pancrase Partners with Drone Net, VR filming for fights
This is cool news! Pancrase signed a partnership with a company called Drone Net. This means that Pancrase can increase its production value by adding…
Pancrase 291 Is on the Way
2017 is coming to a close, but we still have some exciting match ups for you JMMA fans out there. Coming up on November 12th…
Seiza 4 Review
This article was written by Chris Gunn and used with his permission. Last night the 4th Seiza event was held at Korakuen Hall in…
Deep Impact 80 Results
On Saturday we went to see Deep Impact 80 in Differ Ariake. Deep has some exciting fights and this card was very impressive. Deep is…
Rizin 7 : Fukuoka Results
Last week we went to Fukuoka, Japan to watch Rizin 7. As always Rizing puts on a great show and this event was just as…
Katsunori Kikuno aims for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
UFC and DEEP veteran, former DREAM lightweight champion, currently running amok in Garyujima, Katsunori Kikuno, is making a run to compete at Olympic level taekwondo…
International Handler’s Curse : It’s Scary Cutting Weight in Japan
Recently we saw the weigh-ins for Pancrase 290. For the most part, it was business as usual for the promotion. However, there was one disturbing image…
10/15 Shooto
This article was originally written by Shooto commentator, Mark Chinnery, and used with his permission. And here we have it – the last…
Cauliflower Culture MMA Fighter and Guam Native Roque Martinez is Heading to Rizin: Fukuoka
Guam native, heavyweight MMA fighter, Roque Martinez is coming back to Japan. He will be competing against Jerome Le Banner on October 15 in…
A message from Brazilian Fighter Daniel Lima before Pancrase 290
MMA Japan’s Stewart Fulton takes a few minutes to talk to Brazilian MMA Fighter Daniel Lima. Daniel wants to give a message to his fans…
Pancrase 290 Card
On October 8th in Differ Ariake in Japan, Pancrase 290 hits us square in the face. This time around the card is stacked with former…
Rizin : Fukuoka
Rizin is fast becoming the top promotion in Japan. The brand of Rizin is very new. However, if you dig a little deeper into the…
UFC Fight Night Japan : What Went Down in the Land of the Rising Sun?
Once again, the UFC has made its presence known in the land of the rising sun. September 23rd, 2017 brought us UFC Fight…
Deep Impact 79 Results and Review
On Sept 16th, we had the opportunity to attend Deep Impact 79 in Ota Gymnasium. As you are aware, Deep puts on several types of…
UFC Fight Night Japan
September 23, Shogun vs. Saint Preux 2 headline has been changed. Reportedly, the old school Pride favourite in Japan, Shogun, is out and replaced by…
Deep Impact 79 Card
This weekend the live coverage and live tweeting of MMA in Japan continues. This time around the venue is Deep Impact 79 and the card…
Pride Superstar Enson Inoue Talks about a Road Rage Incident
Enson Inoue is one of the icons of the Pride era in MMA history. He is involved in a lot of charity work here in Japan…
Ganryujima Adauchi 2017 – What’s it all about?
The Ganryujima Adauchi 2017 event is in the books. If you are unfamiliar with Ganryujima events, you might find them interesting. They are different from…
Ganryujima – ADAUCHI
The latest exciting installment of the ever growing ‘moat fights’ Ganryujima, takes place in Maihama, Japan tomorrow – September 2. Wrestlers, kickboxers, karate-ka, judo-ka, capoeristas,…
Deep Jewels 17 Results and Review
Yesterday we had the opportunity to attend the Deep Jewels 17 MMA event in Tokyo. Recently Deep has been stepping up their game and having…
Pancrase 289 : Weigh in Interview with Senzo Ikeda
Pancrase 289 Weigh in Interview with Kenta Takagi
Pancrase 289 Weigh in Interview with Takashi Sato
Pancrase 289 Review and Results
Results for Pancrase 289: Yoshinori Horie WIN vs Kazunari Kimura LOSS KO (Knee)Ref: Hirokazu Takamoto Rnd: 2 Time 1:12 Tetsuya Yamamoto WIN vs Mitsuhiro Taki…
Yachi VS Gracie?
If you have been watching the Rizin events since they started at the end of the year back in 2015, you know Yusuke Yachi 18-6-0…
Pancrase 289 Preview
This weekend we have Pancrase 289 coming up. The card for this event is packed with exciting fights. If you are in Japan you can…
Pride Shockwave Dynamite 2002
80,000 martial arts fans in attendance on a blazing hot summer day. Helio Gracie lights the Olympic flame, Antonio Inoki parachutes into the stadium. This…