Ryan Schultz Signs With World Victory Road

Former IFL Lightweight Champion Ryan Schultz has reportedly signed a contract with World Victory Road.

World Victory Road made the announcement today, and also announced that Schultz's first fight under their banner would be at the Sengoku Lightweight Tournament's opening round, to be held on August 24th.

If Schultz makes it past the first round of the tournament, he will be looking at a potential contract of six fights, although a monetary figure has not been disclosed. Schultz, who holds a professional record of 20-9-1, will make his debut against Shooto veteran Mizuto Hirota.

Sengoku 4 Current Fight Card

World Victory Road have announced most of the bouts for their upcoming card "Sengoku 4".

This event will take place on August 24th, which doesn't leave the promotion much time to finalize their fight card, although this does seem to be a trend with the upstart promotion. The card for Sengoku 3 was only finalized in the few days running up to the event, so this one may not be so different.

Here is the card as it stands, featuring the return of Takanori Gomi and the arrival of Frank Trigg:

Takanori Gomi (28-3) vs Sung Hwan Pang (5-1)Makoto Takimoto (4-4) vs Frank Trigg (16-6)Peter Graham (0-1) vs Moise Rimbon (12-7-3)
Clay French (16-2) vs Satoru Kitaoka (20-8-9)Rodrigo Damm (8-1) vs Eiji Mitsuoka (13-5-2)Bojan Kosednar (6-1) vs Kazunori Yokota (6-1-3)Mizuto Hirota (9-2) vs Ryan Schultz (20-9-1)

RUMOR: Sengoku Plan Lightweight Tournament

It has been announced on a few Japanese sites that World Victory Road plan to hold a Sengoku event featuring a Lightweight tournament.

The event is expect to take place over one show, rather than spaced out over a few, as other promotions such as Pride and DREAM have. They plan to feature 8 fighters in this tournament, with the winner fighting Takanori Gomi for the Lightweight belt.

This is a slightly unorthodox way of running the competiton, as you would expect to see Gomi competing in the tournament himself, but this is not the case. Gomi is expected to fight at the event, scheduled for August 23rd, but an opponent has not been named. All we know is he won't compete in the tournament.

Two fighters have been named as participants in the tournament. These fighters are Eiji Mitsuoka and Satoru Kitaoka.

We will bring you more news on this as it is announced.

Sengoku 2 Results

World Victory Road's Sengoku 2 took place last night, with the main event of the evening culminating in a decision win for Josh Barnett over his friend and training partner Jeff Monson.

Kevin Randleman and Roger Gracie also emerged victorious from their match ups. Here are the full results:

Satoru Kitaoka defeats Ian James Schaffa via Submission (Guillotine choke) in Round 1

Mike Pyle defeats Dan Hornbuckle via Submission (Triangle Choke) in Round 1

Eiji Mitsuoka defeats Kwang Hee Lee via Submission (Rear Naked Choke) in Round 1

Jorge Santiago defeats Yuki Sasaki via Submission (Armbar) in Round 3

Yoshihiro Nakao defeats Jim York via KO (Punches) in Round 2

Kevin Randleman defeats Ryo Kawamura via Unanimous Decision

Roger Gracie defeats Yuki Kondo via Submission (Rear Naked Choke) in Round 1

Josh Barnett defeats Jeff Monson via Unanimous Decision

Sengoku 2 This Weekend

New Japanese promotion World Victory Road are holding their second fight card, Sengoku 2, this weekend

The event, held in Japan on 18th May features some big named stars and also some up and coming fighters. The whole fight card is listed below, and we will bring you the results after the event.

Jeff Monson (24-7) versus Josh Barnett (21-5)
Yuki Sasaki (21-13-1) versus Jorge Santiago (16-7)
Satoru Kitaoka (19-8-9-) versus Ian James Schaffa (7-4-1)
Kwang Hee Lee (5-0) versus Eiji Mitsuoka (12-5-2)
Dan Hornbuckle (15-1) versus Mike Pyle (15-5-1)
Jim York (9-1) versus Yoshihiro Nakao (6-1)
Kevin Randleman (16-12) versus Ryo Kawamura (8-2-2)
Roger Gracie (1-0) versus Yuki Kondo (48-21-6)

Sengoku Fight Announced

Roger Gracie has been signed to fight on Sengoku 2 a few weeks ago, but no opponent had been named.

Sengoku have announced today that UFC and Pride veteran Yuki Kondo has been signed to take this fight. Kondo has been fighting professionally since 1996 and holds a record of 48-21-6. Kondo has wins over fighters like Semmy Schilt, Frank Shamrock and Akihiro Gono. This will be an interesting fight for both fighters.