Tokyo, Japan — After going winless in last year, Team USA West is now just one win away from clinching a post-season berth in the 2009 “M-1 Challenge Presented by Affliction.”
The Colin Oyama-coached team took sole possession of first place following Wednesday night’s 5-0 shutout over South Korea during M-1 Challenge’s “Third Edition,” which emanated from Differ Ariake.
Lightweight David Jansen improved to 10-0 after utilizing his outstanding wrestling ability to grind out a unanimous decision victory over Nam Yui Chul (8-2), an impressive prospect who had been 8-1 coming into …

WAMMA lightweight champ Shinya Aoki will get his long-awaited rematch against popular Japanese fighter Hayato “Mach” Sakurai at DREAM.8.
The Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan will be the stage for this 155 lbs. bout, and you better believe both want this win. Aoki is on a roll as of late, and “Mach” has been a fixture at the top of Japanese MMA (DREAM, PRIDE, Shooto) for years.
At Shooto back in 2005, Sakurai barely out-pointed Aoki. Shinya had a solid performance but was unable to impress the judges enough to gain …

One of the hottest MMA events of the year went off today on Japan at the Super Saitama Arena. There were some great bouts including Eddie Alvarez vs. Shinya Aoki, Badr Hari vs. Alistair Overeem, and more.
Without further ado, here are the official results & winners for FEG FieLDS “Dynamite!! 2008″…
MMA BOUTS:
Kiyoshi Tamura (33-13-2) defeated Kazushi Sakuraba (24-12-1) via unanimous decision
Shinya Aoki (20-3) defeated Eddie Alvarez (15-2) via heel hook (Round 1 @ 1:32)
Melvin Manhoef (23-5-1) defeated Mark Hunt (5-5) via KO (Round 1 @ 0:18)
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (24-6-2) …

Popular Japanese MMA promotion “DREAM”, which is owned and operated by those of former “PRIDE” days, have announced on their website that lightweight fighter Shinya Aoki (17-3-1) will face off against Todd Moore. This match-up joins an impressive list of bouts scheduled for the upcoming DREAM 6 event, scheduled for September 23rd at the Saitama Super Arena…