IGF MMA 1 Satoshi Ishii Vs Philip De Fries- 04.05.14 (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION)

IGF MMA 1
April 4, 2014
Ryogoku Kokugikan
Tokyo, Japan

Main Card:
                                    Heavyweight
Satoshi Ishii           Vs           Philip De Fries
                                    Middleweight
Minowaman            Vs           Goran Olle Ulf
                                     Openweight
Tony Bonello           Vs   Guram Gugenishvili
                                    Openweight
Yusuke Kawaguchi   Vs             Brett Rogers
                          IGF Genome Tag Team Match
               Vs                
Kazuyuki Fujita  Naoya Ogawa                  Peter Aerts    Ray Sefo
                                      Lightweight
Yuki Yamamoto       Vs    Ramazan Esenbaev
                                     Openweight
Atsushi Sawada      Vs    Yoshihiro Hoshikaze
                                     Openweight
Shinichi Suzukawa   Vs          Bob Armstrong
                                     IGF Genome
                              Vs                              TBA

                   Open Weight Tournament 1/4 final
Kyoshiro Kawada     Vs      Tsuyoshi Kurihara
Kazuki Nojiri            Vs         Yusuke Masuda

I'm really excited for this org.

Inoki knows how to put on a show.

Hope we get some good smaller weight class fights, though.

adam wrote:I'm really excited for this org.

Inoki knows how to put on a show.

Hope we get some good smaller weight class fights, though.

I´m also excited about this, the PRIDE spirit livs on.

  

I hope it's gonna be like pride

Cannot wait.  IGF has the ring and the right rules (soccer kicks, stomps, knees, and (I believe elbows as well)).  

De Fries could be taking the belt here but I hope Ishii can hold onto it.

Minowaman Vs Goran Wolf Ulf Olle, Brett Rogers Vs Crusher Kawaguchi and Ramazan Esenbaev Vs Yuki Yamamoto added to INOKi GENOME FIGHT  4/5 will be held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. Minowaman, Kawaguchi and Yamamoto was in attendance for the Conference.

The Card Is starting to Take Shape

 

I feel bad for Yamamoto. Esenbaev is going to steamroll him.

wekka wrote:I feel bad for Yamamoto. Esenbaev is going to steamroll him.

Yep and bro you called the Rogers fight

MR.WILLIE wrote:

wekka wrote:I feel bad for Yamamoto. Esenbaev is going to steamroll him.

Yep and bro you called the Rogers fight

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Kingfedor wrote:

Minowaman Vs Goran Wolf Ulf Olle, Brett Rogers Vs Crusher Kawaguchi and Ramazan Esenbaev Vs Yuki Yamamoto added to INOKi GENOME FIGHT  4/5 will be held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. Minowaman, Kawaguchi and Yamamoto was in attendance for the Conference.

Awesome to see the M-1/IGF fighter exchange continue. First M-1 borrowed Ishii and now IGF is using top M-1 fighter Esenbaev for the second time. There´s nothing like Russians vs Japanese fighters in Japan  

Shaping up to be a nice card.

Ishii vs De Fries and Yamamoto vs Esenbaev I'm really interested in.

Kingfedor wrote:
Minowaman Vs Goran Wolf Ulf Olle, Brett Rogers Vs Crusher Kawaguchi and Ramazan Esenbaev Vs Yuki Yamamoto added to INOKi GENOME FIGHT  4/5 will be held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. Minowaman, Kawaguchi and Yamamoto was in attendance for the Conference.

Real solid card IGF has put together here so far.

Golden Age wrote:

Kingfedor wrote:

Minowaman Vs Goran Wolf Ulf Olle, Brett Rogers Vs Crusher Kawaguchi and Ramazan Esenbaev Vs Yuki Yamamoto added to INOKi GENOME FIGHT  4/5 will be held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. Minowaman, Kawaguchi and Yamamoto was in attendance for the Conference.

Awesome to see the M-1/IGF fighter exchange continue. First M-1 borrowed Ishii and now IGF is using top M-1 fighter Esenbaev for the second time. There´s nothing like Russians vs Japanese fighters in Japan  

This is the way MMA should work. I like this too.

A new participant was announced for the event,it was the former sumo wrestler  Yoshihiro Hoshikaze.The opponent still has to be determined,but there are three rumored opponent  Shinichi Suzukawa,  Atsushi Sawada and Shogun Okamoto.

Kingfedor wrote:
A new participant was announced for the event,it was the former sumo wrestler  Yoshihiro Hoshikaze.The opponent still has to be determined,but there are three rumored opponent  Shinichi Suzukawa,  Atsushi Sawada and Shogun Okamoto.

MMA needs more sumo wrestlers.    I like seeing fighters from different disciplines meet like back in the golden age.

If IGF puts on a PRIDE like event this will be my new favourite promotion.

A new participant was announced for the event,it was the former king of the cage Heavyweight champ Cody East.The opponent still has to be determined


I think Inoki put the accent on  heavyweight division

Kingfedor wrote:
A new participant was announced for the event,it was the former sumo wrestler  Yoshihiro Hoshikaze.The opponent still has to be determined,but there are three rumored opponent  Shinichi Suzukawa,  Atsushi Sawada and Shogun Okamoto.

It'll definitely be Suzukawa, no doubt about it.

Sawada/East sounds pretty likely too. Maybe Okamoto could still be added against someone like Hirotaka Yokoi, Yoshihiro Nakao, Yosuke Nishijima, or Kendo Kashin.

Kingfedor wrote:
A new participant was announced for the event,it was the former king of the cage Heavyweight champ Cody East.The opponent still has to be determined


I think Inoki put the accent on  heavyweight division

I like IGF focusing on the HWs. M-1 does this as well but they are also strong in a number of other divisions. HW is best division IMO. With the number of MMA shows they run each year they have to focus on a few divisions and HW is a good one.

can't wait for this card hope its on internet ppv

^Same here. Wish AXS TV would pick this up. They have dropped the ball on MMA.

Today,the IGF hold a press conference under the presence of Atsushi Sawada . Sawada Will face the former sumo wrestler Yoshihiro Hoshikaze . They also annonce that Cody East was remove from the card due to an injurie he suffer during  training .He will be replace by former One Fc and Kotc fighter Tony 'The Gun' Bonello.

Damn, would have been cool if East was on this card. At least they got Bonello though.

Bonello/Suzukawa PLEASE

Today,the IGF held a press conference. They announced they will do an open weight tournament. The first 2 quarter final will be held at IGF 1 event.In the first match the former sumo wrestler Kazuki Nojiri will face Yusuke Masuda. In the second match Kyoshiro Kawada will face Tsuyoshi Kurihara. The 2 other quarter final will be held at IGF 2 and they will hold the semi-final and the final at Inoki-bom-ba-Ye 2014