Stephen Martinez

KOP Heavyweight Tournament Continues April 9 TOKYO, March 14 — Pancrase made official its full card for Sunday, April 9 with the Block B brackets in their current Heavyweight King of Pancrase eight-man tournament.

Among the names announced for the upcoming card, PRIDE and RINGS veteran Hiromitsu Kanehara (Pictures)...

"Ninja" to Face BTTŒs Filho, Weir set for PRIDE Debut TOKYO, March 14 — PRIDE today announced four additional matches for its April 2 Bushido card at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan.

"Ninja" Murilo Rua (Pictures) finally gets to make his anticipated debut at welterweight (183-lbs.), where he takes on BTT's...

Short of Making Weight, Clementi Allowed to Fight Of the 14 fighters scheduled to participate this Wednesday on HERO's first event of 2006, 13 made weight according to official K-1 weight contract rules.

Only American Rich Clementi (...

K-1 HERO’s: Ibrahim and Menjivar Out TOKYO, March 13 — FEG President Sadaharu Tanikawa called for a quick press conference to announce some last minute changes just days away from the...

PRIDE 31 "Unbreakable" Pictures PRIDE 31 was headlined by Mark Hunt (Pictures)'s knockout victory over Yosuke Nishijima, and featured a showdown of Grand Prix champions in Mark Coleman (Pictures) taking to the ring against "Shogun" Mauricio Rua (...

"Kid" Yamamoto Apologizes, SHOOTO Lifts Suspensions TOKYO, Feb. 23 — Resembling something out of the best TV dramas, the feud between Norifumi Yamamoto (Pictures) and SHOOTO has taken many twists the last couple of days.

An official...

SHOOTO "Victory of Truth" Pictures PRIDE veterans Tatsuya Kawajiri (Pictures) and Joachim Hansen (Pictures) headlined Friday's show. In title action, Shinya Aoki (Pictures) and Mitsuhiro Ishida (...

Sherdog.com Preview: SHOOTO “Victory of the truth” TOKYO — Fans must be wondering: What do we have here? This is neither a UFC nor PRIDE event so why the preview? SHOOTO isn't shown on Pay-Per-View...

Aoki Ready for SHOOTO Middleweight Title Shot Days before he hopes to add his name to the impressive list of SHOOTO 167-pound titleholders, Japan’s Shinya Aoki (Pictures) spoke with Sherdog.com about Friday’s challenge against middleweight champion Akira Kikuchi (Pictures).

The jiu-jitsu ace comments on his...

Nakai talks Vale Tudo, SHOOTO and Rickson TOKYO — Sherdog.com recently headed down to Paraestra Tokyo to talk with Vale Tudo legend Yuki Nakai (Pictures), who laid the groundwork for events like Friday’s SHOOTO welterweight championship between Tatsuya Kawajiri (Pictures) and his challenger...