World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 4

World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 4 was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Victory Road. The event took place on August 24, 2008 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City, Japan. It featured the second World Victory Road appearance by the last PRIDE Lightweight Champion, Takanori Gomi, as well as the beginning of a lightweight tournament which will determine a contender who will go on to challenge Takanori Gomi for the vacant Sengoku Lightweight Championship at a later date.^[1]

Results

Heavyweight bout:

• Kazuo Takahashi vs. Valentijn Overeem

Overeem defeated Takahashi by KO (flying knee) at 2:42 of the first round.

Heavyweight bout:

• Peter Graham vs. Moise Rimbon

Rimbon defeated Graham by submission (rear naked choke) at 0:43 of the second round.

Heavyweight bout:

• Pawel Nastula vs. Dong Yi Yang

Yang defeated Nastula by TKO at 2:15 in the second round. Nastula was hit in the groin twice in the first round but decided to continue. The fight was stopped due to Nastula not responding to the referees orders in the second round, apparently due to being in pain from the hits.^[2]

Lightweight Grand Prix tournament

• Mizuto Hirota vs. Ryan Schultz

Hirota defeated Schultz by KO (superman punch) at 4:25 of the second round.

• Bojan Kosednar vs. Kazunori Yokota

Yokota defeated Kosednar by unanimous decision 3–0.

• Rodrigo Damm vs. Eiji Mitsuoka

Mitsuoka defeated Damm by submission (rear naked choke) at 3:13 of the first round.

• Clay French vs. Satoru Kitaoka

Kitaoka defeated French by submission (achilles lock) at 0:31 of the first round.

Middleweight bout:

• Frank Trigg vs. Makoto Takimoto

Trigg defeated Takimoto by unanimous decision 3–0.

Lightweight bout:

• Takanori Gomi vs. Bang Seung Hwan

Gomi defeated Hwan by unanimous decision 3–0.

See also

• List of Sengoku events
• List of male mixed martial artists

External links

• Sengoku official website
• Results from Sherdog

References