Credit: MMAJunkie.com
Longtime PRIDE champion and highly ranked lightweight Takanori Gomi (28-3) will fight reigning DEEP lightweight champion Sung Hwan Pang (5-1) at next month's Sengoku 4 event.
The Japanese-based World Victory Road today released the Aug. 24 fight card, which includes the opening round of a lightweight grand prix and a former star of the all-but-dead International Fight League.
The event takes place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Rumours were circulating that had IFL Lightweight stand out Chris Horodecki fighting Gomi on the August WVR card but it appears those plans fell through. Horodecki himself was quoted as saying he thought he would be fighting Gomi in August.
Whatever the case may be the article on Junkie goes on to state Horodecki is now in negotiations with the American Fight League.
The comeplete World Victory Road: Sengoku 4 is as follows:
REGULAR BOUTS
Takanori Gomi vs Sung Hwan Pang
Makoto Takimoto vs Frank Trigg
Peter Graham vs Moise Rimbon
LIGHTWEIGHT GRAND PRIX, FIRST ROUND
Clay French vs. Satoru Kitaoka
Rodrigo Damm vs. Eiji Mitsuoka
Bojan Kosednar vs. Kazunori Yokota
Mizuto Hirota vs. Ryan Schultz
