The End of Sengoku?
by Zak Woods on Nov 20, 2009 11:34 AM EST
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It appears that we are witnessing the death of Sengoku. The last time we discussed the promotion they were on the precipice of canceling their New Year's Eve show.
Yesterday, Sengoku's management released a statement about the future of the New Year's Eve show and Zach Arnold breaks down what this means for the Japanese MMA promotion.
Nevertheless, the public face today from Sengoku management is that they are trying to find a new building for a NYE show (so much for the K-1 working relationship) at a different arena. The stated reason? A 'scheduling conflict' due to what they claim is an amateur wrestling event booked for the same day at the building. Yeah.
The company maintains publicly that there is ‘great interest' for the Hidehiko Yoshida/Satoshi Ishii match-up and that the cancelation of the Ariake Colosseum booking was a good thing because the fight will be popular enough to draw more than what they initially planned for. Management claims they will announce a new venue for the show.
Japan MMA echos Jordan Breen's sentiments on the situation.
What is interesting now is, what arena is available??? I am betting they will have it in Saitama Superarena, and from the change in the web-site it looks like it will be the last Sengoku event we will see.
WKR said this before but this could give Zuffa or Strikeforce a chance at singing the coveted Satoshi Ishii.
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When asked if SENGOKU will continue on after NYE, Tanigawa said "of course it will". They’ll probably discuss it after NYE, but he wants to hold showdown cards between the two organizations at fixed intervals from now on.
Tanigawa said that there won’t be a DREAM+SRC merger organization after this. He rather want both of them to grow more powerful and at times join to hold events as stated above.
NOB
does that mean...
that this math equation is real?
Sengoku + Dream + Strikeforce = Dreamforcoku
watchkalibrun.com
I think the Japanese MMA world will be a more “unified” one in the near future, but Sengoku will try to find an honorable way to “bolster” the MMA scene with FEG if it still can’t make any money. The combination of FEG and Don Quijote may mean that they will work together and try to grow a strong Sengoku and DREAM promotion. Similar to what the UFC wanted to do with PRIDE and the UFC or the WEC and the UFC. M-1 and Strikeforce would co promote some big shows (against Barnett, Ishii, etc) in the future as well.
RaidenDreamForce? DreamForceKu? =)
by MMASuPreMaCy on Nov 20, 2009 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
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