‘M16’ Gets Opponent, Mishima Returns for Oct. 15 Grabaka Card After 15 months away from competition, former Shooto world 115-pound champion Rambaa “M16” Somdet will return in October against Ryota Uozumi at the Grabaka-produced...

Pictures: Pancrase ‘Impressive Tour 9’ Taro Irei was ringside at the Differ Ariake in Tokyo to photograph Pancrase “Impressive Tour 9” for Sherdog.com. Pride veteran Shungo Oyama...

Pancrase: Nakayama Nets Interim 145 Title, Nakai Draws West TOKYO -- Shooto and King of the Cage veteran Takumi Nakayama trumped Tomonari Kanomata on the judges’ scorecards to claim the title of interim featherweight King of Pancrase in the main event of...

Pictures: Deep '55 Impact' Mizuto Hirota made his return following a gruesome arm injury inflicted by Shinya Aoki to put away the respected Katsunori Kikuno at Deep “55...

Hirota Takes Kikuno’s Crown; Matsumoto Retires at Deep 55 TOKYO -- Mizuto Hirota is back.

In his first bout since suffering a gruesome arm break at the hands of Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki 20 months ago in 2009's K-1 Dynamite, the former Sengoku Raiden Championship and Cage Force lightweight champion rebounded with a...

Grabaka Announces Oct. 15 Event in Tokyo with Kikuta, Somdet Well-known Japanese gym Grabaka will celebrate its 11th anniversary by staging its inaugural MMA event Oct. 15 at Tokyo’s Differ Ariake arena.

Pictures: Pancrase ‘Impressive Tour 8’ Kazuki Tokudome and Isao Kobayashi advanced in Pancrase’s 2011 lightweight tournament at “Impressive Tour 8,” while Mitsuhisa Sunabe and Hiroyuki...

120-, 155-Pounders Advance at Pancrase ‘Impressive Tour 8’ TOKYO -- Kazuki Tokudome battered a tenacious Kota Okazawa in the main event of Sunday evening’s Pancrase “Impressive Tour 8” at Differ...

Pros Pick: Evans vs. Ortiz 2 The City of Brotherly Love will play host to a rematch between former light heavyweight champions, as Rashad Evans meets the suddenly resurgent Tito Ortiz in the...

Pictures: ‘Shootor’s Legacy 3’ Sherdog.com’s Taro Irei was ringside at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall on July 18 for “Shootor’s Legacy 3,” where Kuniyoshi Hironaka and Yasuhiro Urushitani left with...