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[MasterShake]

Roger Gracie added to Sengoku 5
Posted by Sam Caplan
World Victory Road has announced that heavyweight prospect Roger Gracie has been added to its Sengoku 5 card on Sept. 28 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.

Gracie, one of the best pure heavyweight grapplers on the competitive circuit, is 2-0 in his brief MMA career. He debuted in 2006 with a first round submission of Ron Waterman during BodogFIGHT’s “USA vs. Russia” event. Gracie then returned to action this past May during Sengoku 2, where he submitted Yuki Kondo with a rear naked choke at 2:40 of round 1.

Gracie’s opponent for Sengoku 5 has yet to be named.

The promotion has also announced that Yuki Sasaki has been added to a Middleweight Grand Prix field that already includes Jorge Santiago, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos, and Siyar Bahadurzada.

Also added to the card in separate bouts were Jorge Masvidal and Xande Ribeiro. Masvidal had been rumored as a challenger to Josh Thomson and Thomson’s Strikeforce lightweight title during the San Jose-based promotion’s Sept. 20 show at the Playboy Mansion. It’s unlikely that Masvidal will be fighting for Strikeforce on that date in light of Sengoku’s announcement.

Source:Roger Gracie added to Sengoku 5 :Five Ounces of Pain

[Clint]

lol at the vagueness of the title

[MasterShake]

Originally Posted by Clint

lol at the vagueness of the title

Yeah I suppose I could of been more specific.LOL

[Badluck33]

here i was thinking the return of Royce!

[gogoplata]

Roger brings it! Id love to see him fight in the states

[MasterShake]

Yeah I definetly think he would tie up most HW's out there right now the dude is bad ass.

[Severn]

Originally Posted by Badluck_33

here i was thinking the return of Royce!

I was thinking Hickson. Hoping anyway.

[MasterShake]

Who changed the title?

I kinda liked the vaigness of it all.

[Ubermensch]

That is so cool. Hope Rodger has been practicing his standup don't want to see any of that bodog shit he did. Anyway this is exciting hope he grows into a great MMA fighter. Talk about that WTF is with Marcelo did he decide he cuts too easy??? He was winning the fight till the cut??? I want to see him transition like Jacare. He reminded me of Jake how he was tooling the guy before the cut.