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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