World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9
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| Promotion | World Victory Road | |||
| Date | August 2, 2009 | |||
| Venue | Saitama Super Arena | |||
| City | Saitama, Japan | |||
| Attendance | 9,587 | |||
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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
- 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).
- Hioki defeated Kanehara via unanimous decision.
Featherweight Grand Prix Final
- 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
| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||||||
| Seiya Kawahara | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nick Denis | W TKO | |||||||||||||||||
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| Nick Denis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Marlon Sandro | W KO | |||||||||||||||||
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| Marlon Sando | W Sub | |||||||||||||||||
| Matt Jaggers | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Marlon Sandro | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Michihiro Omigawa | W Dec | |||||||||||||||||
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| Hideki Kadowaki | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Nam Phan | W TKO | |||||||||||||||||
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| Nam Phan | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Michihiro Omigawa | W TKO | |||||||||||||||||
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| LC Davis | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Michihiro Omigawa | W Dec | |||||||||||||||||
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| Michihiro Omigawa | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Masanori Kanehara | W Dec | |||||||||||||||||
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| Shintaro Ishiwatari | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chan Sung Jung | W Sub | |||||||||||||||||
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| Chan Sung Jung | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Masanori Kanehara | W Dec | |||||||||||||||||
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| Jong Man Kim | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Masanori Kanehara | W Dec | |||||||||||||||||
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| Masanori Kanehara* | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Hatsu Hioki | W Dec | |||||||||||||||||
| Ronnie Mann | W Dec | |||||||||||||||||
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| Tetsuya Yamada | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Ronnie Mann | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Hatsu Hioki | W Sub | |||||||||||||||||
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| Hatsu Hioki | W Sub | |||||||||||||||||
| Chris Manuel | ||||||||||||||||||
- 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
- ^ "8.2『戦極～第九陣～』全カード決定! 吉田は参戦見送り!!" (in Japanese). 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ http://sherdog.com/news/news/sengoku-ninth-battle-play-by-play-18865
- ^ a b c d e f g h Sengoku-official.com
- ^ http://www.mmafighting.com/news/2009/06/30/dan-hornbuckle-face-akihiro-gono-sengoku-9