World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9

World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9 was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Victory Road on August 2, 2009. It featured the final round of WVR's 2009 Featherweight Grand-Prix. This event was broadcast in North America via tape delay on HDNet.

Featherweight Grand Prix Final Round

Featherweight Grand Prix reserve bout

• Jung Chan Sung vs. Matt Jaggers^[1]

Jung defeated Jaggers via submission (triangle choke) at 1:25 of round 2.

Featherweight Grand Prix Semi-Finals

• Marlon Sandro vs. Michihiro Omigawa

Omigawa defeated Sandro via "must decide" judges decision (Omigawa, Omigawa, Sandro) after initially scoring it a majority draw (30–30, 30–30, 30–29 Sandro).

• Hatsu Hioki vs Masanori Kanehara

Hioki defeated Kanehara via unanimous decision.

Featherweight Grand Prix Final

• Michihiro Omigawa vs. Masanori Kanehara

Kanehara defeated Omigawa via split decision. Hioki was unable to continue due to a concussion and was replaced by Kanehara.^[2]

Non-Grand Prix bouts

• Heavyweight bout: Yoshihiro Nakao vs. Choi Mu Bae^[3]

Nakao defeated Choi via unanimous decision.

• Lightweight bout: Eiji Mitsuoka vs. Clay French^[3]

Mitsuoka defeated French via submission (guillotine choke) at 1:51 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout: Akihiro Gono vs. Dan Hornbuckle ^[4]

Hornbuckle defeated Gono via KO (Head Kick) at 2:50 of round 3.

• Heavyweight bout: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Blagoi Ivanov^[3]

Ivanov defeated Fujita via split decision.

• Middleweight bout: Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Kazuo Misaki^[3]

Misaki defeated Nakamura via submission (guillotine choke) at 3:03 of round 1.

• Lightweight Championship bout: Satoru Kitaoka (c) vs. Mizuto Hirota^[3]

Hirota defeated Kitaoka via TKO (Knees) at 2:50 of round 4 to become the new Lightweight Champion.

Sengoku Gold Cup finals

• Lightweight final: Koji Ando vs. Ikuo Usuda^[3]

Usuda defeats Ando by unanimous decision.

• Bantamweight final: Ryosuke Komori vs. Takeshi Numajiri^[3]

Komori defeats Numajiri by TKO at 3:25 of round 1.

• Featherweight final: Toru Hari vs. Shigeki Osawa^[3]

Osawa defeats Hari by TKO at 4:24 of round 1.

2009 Featherweight Grand Prix Bracket

• Note: Hioki was unable to continue due to a concussion and was replaced by Kanehara.

Featherweight Grand Prix Reserve Bouts:

Jung Chan Sung def. Matt Jaggers at Sengoku 9

References