SENGOKU 2009 Schedule!

[iandean]

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SENGOKU 2009 Schedule! Nam Phan In Featherweight GP?
•January 23, 2009 • No Comments

WVR PR Kuniyasu said at the press conference today that 6 events are being planned for 2009. They will be in March, Early May, July, August, September, and November (plus SENGOKU NO RAN 2010 in early 2010). The Featherweight GP participants will be announced next week and Kuniyasu said that a fighter from American Top Team (Pequeno?) and Team Trojan (James Thompson, Zelg Galesic) will be in it. Could the fighter from Team Trojan be Ronnie Mann?

Another possible GP participant seems to be Nam Phan who would then be moving down to Featherweight from Lightweight. Thanks to reader sprewell for putting this into light. From his website:

Nam trains w/ Andy Wang and Bao Quach for his upcoming fight in Japan (March 2009)

Update: Hidehiko Yoshida might return in July.

Update #2: Kuniyasu said that he wants to hold a one night 4-man tournament which would include Josh Barnett and Antonio Silva to determine the first ever SENGOKU Heavyweight champion.

SENGOKU VII
Date: March 20th, 2009
Place: National Yoyogi Stadium 2nd Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan

Light Heavyweight Fight:
King Mo vs. Ryo Kawamura

Possible GP Participants:
Alexandre Franca Nogueira
Marlon Sandro
Hiroyuki Takaya
Nam Phan

Possible Fights:
Roger Gracie vs. Jeff Monson

Possible Participants:
Pawel Nastula

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[PuffY]

Cool! I like the idea of the one night 4-man heavyweight tournament .

[Zanmato]

i wonder if the monson fight will still happen... his schedule is probably going to be full for the next.. oh... 10 years?

seriously though, if he's not in trouble for the graffitti then i would think he's fucked for trashing a house and attacking a woman...

[r-v]

hope Pawel has a good year this time in sengoku and hope to see Paul Cahoon fight again there

[RKing85]

definitly think it's safe to say Monson won't be on the card. Too bad Sengoku and Dream couldn't combine their FW tourney's.

[Tiago Okamura]

Rodrigo Damm will probably be back in Sengoku for the may show.
He was schedueled to fight in the march card, but because of the FW tournament taking up 80% of the card they were left with only 2 superfights, King Mo x Kawamura will be one, and the other one should be a good HW match.

[Venom]

according to Japan-mma.com Sengoku announced first participants of the featherweight GP:

Hatsu Hioki 17-3-2
Marlon Sandro 12-0
Ronnie Mann 16-1-1
Chris Manuel 6-0-2
Nick Dennis 6-0

[MMA RULES]

War Ronnie Mann.

[K.G.B]

Think this and the Dream FW tournement could produce some of the best fights of 2009. Good luck to Ronnie Mann, well deserved...time to shine.

[Zanmato]

according to Japan-mma.com Sengoku announced first participants of the featherweight GP:

Hatsu Hioki 17-3-2
Marlon Sandro 12-0
Ronnie Mann 16-1-1
Chris Manuel 6-0-2
Nick Dennis 6-0

this may be a stupid question, but is Ronnie Mann 'Ronnie Ushiwaka'? that's the name i've seen on a few sites now... i don't really know anything about him (or, if not him, either of them! lol)