Yesterday in Japan, Pancrase put on it’s very first Pay-per-view card ever, culminating in a welterweight title bout between Takenori Sato and Shingo Suzuki. As usual, the event was entertaining, insane, hilarious, and downright awesome. In the main event of the night, Takenori Sato and Shingo Suzuki put on an absolutely fantastic performance in a […]

PANCRASE MMA Live on USTREAM! It’s excited to announce PANCRASE MMA’s very first Pay Per View Live for global on USTREAM. You can watch 10 best Japanese MMA cards including mainevent Champion vs Champion/Queen vs Queen world’s top women match between Rin Nakai undefeated PANCRASE women’s bantamweight champion and Brenda Gonzales, King Of The Cage […]

21-7-2 Dokonjonosuke MISHIMA (Pride, UFC, DEEP, Shooto & Pancrase veteran) Mishima shows us some very nice submission options from side control. MISHIMA has literally fought in every main Japanese MMA promotion (with the exception of DREAM) In an era that pre-dated Genki Sudo, we saw Mishima offer up ring entrances that rivaled that of the […]

Rin Nakai AND Mega Megu return, all in the same month? Wa wa wiwwah! Megumi Fujii aka “Mega Megu”, the once undefeated colossus of female-MMA (whose fans a la Fedor’s circa 2000-2009 would claim was still undefeated on all but paper) returns, but not in Japan. The catch-wrestling Josh Barnett protege will be fighting in […]

JMMA took a last curtain call with a Tsunami that wiped out a lot of the hope of some revival. Pride Fc was for many (and deff. us here at FSA) a pinnacle of MMA in its short and illustrious lifetime. JMMA (Japanese Mixed Martial Arts) always offered big entrances, personalities, great hype posters and […]

Vitali Klitschko  in his last fight, defeated the slightly deranged British boxing star – Dereck Chisora (despite the slap in the face) Vitali (44-2 with 40 KO’s) is set for a return in september 2012 (opponent unknown) In the meantime lets make an Asia reference (since we are FightSportAsia) Did you know Klitschko fought Kickboxing ? Well […]

Remember to keep checking FSA’s Japan MMA Calendar @ http://www.FightSportAsia./mma/Japan-MMA-Calendar Pancrase: Progress Tour 3 Results: Welterweight King of Pancrase Match: (c) Takenori Sato (DEC) x “Strasser” Kiichi Kunimoto “Windy” Tomomi Sunaba x Saori Ishioka (2R SUB)- Windy’s Retirement match Shintaro Ishiwatari (DEC) x Tashiro Nishiuchi Jon Shores (2R TKO) x Masakazu Takafuji Seiya Kawahara (1R TKO) x Yuta Nakamura Motonobu Tezuka (2R TKO) […]

One was the former #1 lightweight, and one is the unofficial #1 featherweight. Takanori Gomi and Hatsu Hioki represented both their country and the Japanese MMA scene superbly with two displays of varying excellence. Hioki put on yet another grappling clinic, whereas the wilder Gomi showed considerable grit to come back from a combination of […]

This is obviously a pretty subjective issue and article… but lets take a look at (IMO) the top 5 MMA events in Asia. Notable mentions must also go to – Super Fight League, Dare Fc, URCC, Deep, Shooto, Pancrase, Rings, MFC, Rings, PXC and im sure many more. Below are (in no order) and (imo) the […]

 Perhaps the most promising prospect in all Pancrase, Jon Shores(9-0) has been added to the upcoming March 11th Pancrase Progress Tour 3 show. Shores will take on Takada Dojo’s Masakazu Takafuji(7-5), who is coming off a viscous 52 second soccer kick KO of Masaki Yanagisawa back in December. As you would expect from a fighter coming out […]