Bloody Elbow has looked back at the history of Japanese MMA to varying degrees, and included in that history has been a brief glance at Satoru Sayama and the formation of Shooto. Sayama was an ...

This Wednesday perennial Japanese promoter Pancrase will hold the next chapter of its 2007 RISING TOUR, bringing together an interesting mix of homegrown talent pitted against fighters from France, ...

Yoshiaki Fujiwara is long held up as Karl Gotch’s best student. In fact out of all of his students, Fujiwara was the only one Karl Gotch willingly endorsed as representative of the ‘Gotch Style’ of ...

When a particularly potent weekend of MMA rolls around, some of that hot fire is going to be burning in Japan. This fight filled weekend: certainly not an exception. Wajyutsu Keisyukai is a preeminent ...