HEAT going all out with
HEAT 40, seems like pretty much all of their titles will be up for grabs. All 3 that they have announced so far feature a challenger from Team MAD.
Lightweight Championship Tournament Finals
Rae Yoon Ok vs
Yasuaki Kishimoto
Ok is one of Team MAD's top prospects at the moment riding a 6 fight win streak that includes wins over ROAD China Trials contestant Habiti Tuerxunbieke and long time Pancrase ranker Eiji Ishikawa.
Kishimoto gets a 2nd chance in the tournament due to Tom Santos bouncing for ROAD's Lightweight Tournament. He's a former DEEP title challenger and holds a recent win over ROAD International Trials competitor Won Bin Ki.
Flyweight Title Fight
Takeshi Kasugai (champion) vs
Nam Jin Jo (challenger)
Kasugai has quietly become one of Japan's best Flyweights in the last few years. Since coming up short for the ROAD interim title in 2015, he has gone on a 6 fight winning streak with wins over then King of Pancrase Kiyotaka Shimizu, former GRACHAN and HEAT Bantamweight champ and UFC vet Motonobu Tezuka, and Kyu Sung Kim. He was the HEAT BW champ as well but has since vacated the belt.
Jo is the former ROAD champ and has been competing since he was a Freshman in high school. He has long been one of Korea's biggest representatives in the lighter divisions.
Welterweight Title Fight
Nelson Carvalho (champion) vs
Sung Won Son (challenger)
Carvalho is coming off of a split decision loss against Efrain Escudero outside of the promotion, he holds a win over former King of Pancrase Gota Yamashita.
Sung Won Son has been around since some of the earliest days of Korean MMA, starting out in MARS and Spirit MC. HEAT lists his record as 13-6 so it's possible some bouts are missing from his western records. Also I haven't seen his last 2 fights but I get the feeling the decisions were probably iffy considering the promotion and the guys he fought.