Sengoku 4 results: Gomi; Trigg prevail

World Victory Road held its fourth installment under the Sengoku banner earlier this morning at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Lightweight superstar Takanori Gomi took his second straight victory for Sengoku with a unanimous decision win over Seung Hwan Bang in the main event. "The Fireball Kid" is expected to meet the winner of the lightweight grand prix later this year for the first ever Sengoku lightweight championship.
Former UFC welterweight Frank Trigg also battled his way to a unanimous decision win when he outpointed a very game Makoto Takimoto while former K-1 star Peter Graham finds himself 0-2 in mixed martial arts after getting choked out by Moise Rimbon.
Olympic judo gold medalist Pawel Nastula's comeback was short-lived thanks to a second round TKO at the hands of twenty three year-old Yang Dong Yi. The former DEEP fighter is now 3-0 with three straight TKO victories.
One of the night's two spectacular knockouts belongs to Valentijn Overeem, who flattened Yoshihiki Takahashi with a flying knee in the first round.
The other came courtesy of Mizuto Hirota when he uspet one of the grand prix favorites by going Man of Steel on Ryan Schultz and sending him to the land of eye crusties in round two.
Clay French has always proven that only his eye is glass and not his jaw, but it wasn't enough to keep Pancrase veteran Satoru Kitaoka from submitting him just thirty-one seconds into the fight.
In a shocking turn of events, grappling phenom Rodrigo Damm was choked out in the first round by the wily Eiji Mitsuoka. Damm was expected to control the ground game but instead got a taste of his own rear naked medicine.
Kazunori Yokata kept shame from the Grabaka name after decisioning Slovenia's legend of Zelva. As expected, Yokata was better on his feet and advanced himself to the grand prix semifinals.
Here are the Sengoku 4 complete results:
Main Card:
Takanori Gomi defeated Seung Hwan Bang via unanimous decision
Frank Trigg defeated Makoto Takimoto via unanimous decision
Valentijn Overeem defeated Yoshihiki Takahashi via KO (2:42-R1)
Moise Rimbon defeated Peter Graham via submission (0:42-R2)
Yang Dong Yi defeated Pawel Nastula via TKO at (2:15-R2)
Lightweight Grand Prix:
Mizuto Hirota defeated Ryan Schultz via KO (4:25-R2)
Kazunori Yokata defeated Bojan Kosednar via unanimous decision
Eiji Mitsuoka defeated Rodrigo Damm via submission (3:13-R1)
Satoru Kitaoka defeated Clay French via submission (0:31-R1)
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Happy to hear that Gomi won.
Newstula needs to give up on his mma dream and stick to Judo. Trigg I cant stand!
I am shocked to learn that Damn, Shultz and French all lost in the 1st round.
Valentine overeem has always been an entertaining fighter and I look forward to seeing the highlite of his Flying kNee knock out!
by john on Aug 24, 2008 12:24 PM EDT reply actions
All the fight viedoa of this event can be viewed on MMAscraps.com
by john on Aug 24, 2008 12:35 PM EDT reply actions
damn! i missed it. it was streamed live too on channelsurfing last night at 2am central time. hell if i had known that, i woulda stayed up. i though when mania said tommorrow it meant today or tonight. oh well, im off to scraps now.
by b.w. on Aug 24, 2008 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Schultz vs. Hirota – dropped with a superman punch and put to sleep before even fully hitting the ground!! ewwww. It was a good fight. Hirota is fricken quick! that sh*t looked like fast forward.
by kama kaze on Aug 24, 2008 12:40 PM EDT reply actions
Was this televised live? I looked up HDNet fights, but only found re-runs of Dream 5.
by DrPepper on Aug 24, 2008 12:41 PM EDT reply actions
Sucks for Ryan, I was really really pulling for him.
by "Mr. NC-17" on Aug 24, 2008 1:59 PM EDT reply actions
Dont like gomi anymore terrible why is he fighting in this org? Besides not wanting to fight good people i really dont understand….
by Khaos_Warrior on Aug 24, 2008 2:15 PM EDT reply actions
He didn’t really impress me with this fight. Is that really the best lightweight Japan has to offer?
by Toms Bombs on Aug 24, 2008 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Not only is he the best that Japan has to offer, but he is one of the top 5 lightweights in the entire world….FACT!
by john on Aug 24, 2008 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Gomi = Lightweight of Fedor. He does not fight top notch fighters but yet if he did, he would probably defeat them easily.
by "Mr. NC-17" on Aug 24, 2008 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions
awww fedor?! ill jump back on the bandwagon after seeing him beating sherk, griffin, melendez, jthompson!
by kama kaze on Aug 24, 2008 7:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Gomi is not a top 5 lightweight and is really the only big name lightweight to hide from top competition in both the U.S. and in Japan. The fights he takes should equate with the year layoff that results in his removal from the top 10 rankings. Most overrated fighter alive.
by Amos on Aug 24, 2008 4:13 PM EDT reply actions
Gomi looked terrible. Totally one dimensional. I hate to say it, but Penn and even Faber would eat him alive.
by Soups on Aug 24, 2008 5:51 PM EDT reply actions
I will always remember Nick Diaz submitting Gomi. Diaz was on his back with one shin in Gomi’s throat and the other leg on top of Gomi’s head as he choked Gomi out. Anyone know the name of that move?
by DrPepper on Aug 24, 2008 7:04 PM EDT reply actions
gogoplata.
Also, it was an exhibition.
Gomi came in there trying to end it quick in spectacular fashion.
(and he almost did, put Nick out of commission for months with a broken ocular bone.)
and he did not look like he came in fight shape for this fight.
He was gassed at the end of the first.
by ShaiZ on Aug 24, 2008 8:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Gogo-plata….This was the best fight of 2006!!
by rick dooby on Aug 24, 2008 8:47 PM EDT reply actions
Thanks for the name of the move. I think you meant collar bone, not ocular bone.
by DrPepper on Aug 25, 2008 1:16 AM EDT reply actions

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